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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 59c. East River, New York

Statutory text

That portion of the East River, in New York County, State of New York, lying between the south line of East Seventeenth Street, extended eastwardly, the United States pierhead line as it existed on , and the south line of East Thirtieth Street, extended eastwardly, is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of 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.

  1. River and Harbor Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–298 title III § 307 · 79 Stat. 1073

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 59c

    (Pub. L. 89–298, title III, § 307, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–298, title III, § 307, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 307. That portion of the East River, in New York County, State of New York, lying between the south line of East Seventeenth Street, extended eastwardly, the United States pierhead line as it existed on July 1, 1965, and the south line of East Thirtieth Street, extended eastwardly, is hereby declared to be not a navigable water or the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–298, title III, § 307, , 79 Stat. 1094.)

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