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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 53. Benton Harbor Canal, Michigan

Statutory text

The Benton Harbor Canal at and above the west line of Ninth Street, in the city of Benton Harbor and State of Michigan, is declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

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. 75–288 · 50 Stat. 243

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 53

    (June 2, 1937, ch. 288, §§ 1, 3, 50 Stat. 243.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 2, 1937, ch. 288, §§ 1, 3, 50 Stat. 243.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This section, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act June 2, 1937, ch. 288, 50 Stat. 243, sections 1 and 3 of which are classified to this section. Section 2 of the Act, which relates to abandonment of a portion of the Benton Harbor Canal project, is not classified to the Code.

Credits

(June 2, 1937, ch. 288, §§ 1, 3, 50 Stat. 243.)

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