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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 53a. Additional portion of Benton Harbor Canal, abandoned as navigable water

Statutory text

The Benton Harbor Canal, from the west line of Ninth Street extended northerly to the west line of Riverview Drive extended northerly in the city of Benton Harbor and State of Michigan, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws 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. 88–88 § 1 · 77 Stat. 118

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 53a

    (Pub. L. 88–88, § 1, Aug. 5, 1963, 77 Stat. 118.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 88–88, § 1, Aug. 5, 1963, 77 Stat. 118.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 88–88, § 1, , 77 Stat. 118.)

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