Skip to content

Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 575. Availability of appropriations for expenses incident to operation of power boats or vessels; expenses defined; certification of expenditures

Statutory text

On and after , no appropriation under the Corps of Engineers shall be available for any expenses incident to operating any power-driven boat or vessel on other than Government business, and that Government business shall be construed to include transportation, lodging, and subsistence on inspection trips of Federal and State officials, having a public interest in authorized or proposed improvements for river and harbor and flood control, and any expenses incurred therefor shall be chargeable to river and harbor and flood control appropriations heretofore or hereafter made under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Chief of Engineers: Provided, That such expenditures shall be certified by the Division Engineer as necessary and proper expenditures.

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. War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1948

    Pub. L. 80–411 § 1 · 61 Stat. 686

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 575

    (July 31, 1947, ch. 411, § 1, 61 Stat. 688.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 31, 1947, ch. 411, § 1, 61 Stat. 688.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is also set out as section 701b–9 of this title.

Section was formerly classified to sections 190a and 199 of Title 10 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 10, Armed Forces, by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 1, 70A Stat. 1.

Credits

(July 31, 1947, ch. 411, § 1, 61 Stat. 688.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc33.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-04-17

USLM identifier /us/usc/t33/s575