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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 56. Fort Point Channel and South Bay, Boston, Massachusetts

Statutory text

The portion of the tidewaters in the waterway in which is located Fort Point Channel and South Bay in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, lying above the easterly side of the highway bridge over Fort Point Channel at Dorchester Avenue in the city of Boston is declared to be a nonnavigable 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. 84–37 · 69 Stat. 49

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 56

    (May 13, 1955, ch. 37, 69 Stat. 48.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 13, 1955, ch. 37, 69 Stat. 48.)

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Credits

(May 13, 1955, ch. 37, 69 Stat. 48.)

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