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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 49. Bayou Saint John in New Orleans

Statutory text

Bayou Saint John, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the laws enacted by Congress for the preservation and protection of such waters.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

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. 74–530 · 49 Stat. 614

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 49

    (June 5, 1936, ch. 530, §§ 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1484.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 5, 1936, ch. 530, §§ 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1484.)

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Credits

(June 5, 1936, ch. 530, §§ 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1484.)

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