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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 59b. Bayous Terrebonne and LeCarpe, Louisiana

Statutory text

Bayou Terrebonne west of Barrow Street and Bayou LeCarpe west of the Intracoastal Waterway in the city of Houma, State of Louisiana, are declared to be not navigable waters 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. 86–226 · 73 Stat. 455

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 59b

    (Pub. L. 86–226, §§ 2, 3, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 455.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–226, §§ 2, 3, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 455.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 86–226, §§ 2, 3, , 73 Stat. 455.)

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