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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 11 — Bridges Over Navigable Waters

§ 512. Obstruction of navigation

Statutory text

No bridge shall at any time unreasonably obstruct the free navigation of any navigable waters of the United States.

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. 76–409 § 2 · 54 Stat. 497

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 512

    (June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 2, 54 Stat. 498.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 2, 54 Stat. 498.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. obstruction of navigation No bridge shall at any time unreasonably obstruct the free navigation of any navigable waters of the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 21, 1940, ch. 409, § 2, 54 Stat. 498.)

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USLM identifier /us/usc/t33/s512