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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally

§ 453. Regulations for navigation of Ambrose Channel; exclusion of tows and sailing vessels

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Army is authorized to make such rules and regulations for the navigation of Ambrose Channel as he may deem necessary or expedient to insure its safe use in all kinds of weather, night and day, for all vessels under control and running under their own power, and to this end he may, in his discretion, forbid its use to tows of every description and to sailing vessels.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 62–144 § 1 · 37 Stat. 120

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 453

    Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act June 29, 1888, ch. 496, 25 Stat. 209, which comprises this subchapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

Credits

1913–1947 · 2 acts
  1. 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803
  2. 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
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(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 1, 37 Stat. 803; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

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