Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters
§ 497. “Persons” defined
Statutory text
The word “persons” as used in sections 491 to 494 and 495 to 498 of this title, shall be construed to import both the singular and the plural, as the case demands, and shall include municipalities, quasi-municipal corporations, corporations, companies, and associations.
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.
Pub. L. 59–1130 § 7 · 34 Stat. 84
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 497
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 7, 34 Stat. 86.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 7, 34 Stat. 86.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. Meaning of “persons.” That the word “persons” as used in this Act shall be construed to import both the singular and the plural, as the case demands, and shall include municipalities, quasi municipal corporations, corporations, companies, and associations.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 7, 34 Stat. 86.)