Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally
§ 560. Contributions from private parties; return of excess
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Army is authorized to receive from private parties such funds as may be contributed by them to be expended in connection with funds appropriated by the United States for any authorized work of public improvement of rivers and harbors whenever such work and expenditure may be considered by the Chief of Engineers as advantageous to the interests of navigation: Provided, That when contributions heretofore or hereafter made by local interests for river and harbor improvements, in accordance with specific requirements or under general authority of Congress, are in excess of the actual cost of the work contemplated and properly chargeable to such contributions, such excess contributions may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Army, be returned to the proper representatives of the contributing interests, unless the provision of law under which the contribution is made requires that the entire contribution be retained by 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.
Pub. L. 63–142 § 4 · 38 Stat. 509
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 560
Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 142, § 4, 38 Stat. 1053
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 142, § 4, 38 Stat. 1053
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from act , popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1915”.
Prior Provisions
Section superseded act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 144, § 8, 37 Stat. 827, which read as follows: “The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to receive from private parties such funds as may be contributed by them to be expended in connection with funds appropriated by the United States for any authorized work of public improvement of rivers and harbors, whenever such work and expenditure may be considered by the Chief of Engineers as advantageous to the interests of navigation.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Credits
1915–1947 · 2 acts
- 1915Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 142, § 4, 38 Stat. 1053
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
Show as published
(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 142, § 4, 38 Stat. 1053; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)