Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally
§ 568. Limitation on power of committee of Congress to consider projects
Statutory text
No project shall be considered by any committee of Congress with a view to its adoption, except with a view to a survey, if five years have elapsed since a report upon a survey of such project has been submitted to Congress pursuant to law.
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. 67–427 § 9 · 42 Stat. 1038
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 568
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 9. That hereafter no project shall be considered by any Projects not to be considered after five years from report or survey. committee of Congress with a view to its adoption, except with a view to a survey, if five years have elapsed since a report upon a survey of such project has been submitted to Congress pursuant to law.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from act , popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1918”.
Credits
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 9, 42 Stat. 1043.)