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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 570. Default in contract; disposition of amounts collected

Statutory text

Any amounts collected from defaulting contractors or their sureties under contracts entered into in connection with river and harbor or flood-control work prosecuted by the Engineer Department, whether collected in cash or by deduction from amounts otherwise due such contractors, hereafter shall be credited in each case to the appropriation under which the contract was made.

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. 74–831 § 8 · 49 Stat. 1028

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 570

    (Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 8, 49 Stat. 1048.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 8, 49 Stat. 1048.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. That any amounts collected from defaulting contractors or their sureties under contracts entered into in connection with river and harbor or flood-control work prosecuted by the Engineer Department, whether collected in cash or by deduction from amounts otherwise due such contractors, hereafter shall be credited in each case to the appropriation under which the contract was made.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 831, § 8, 49 Stat. 1048.)

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