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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 59u. Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey

Statutory text

The body of water known as Lawyer’s Ditch located at block 5,000 in the city of Newark, county of Essex, New Jersey, is declared to be a nonnavigable waterway of the United States within the meaning of the General Bridge Act of 1946 (33 U.S.C. 525 et seq.).

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. 99–307 § 3 · 100 Stat. 444

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 59u

    (Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 446.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 446.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. The body of water known as Lawyer’s Ditch located at block 5,000 in the city of Newark, county of Essex, New Jersey, is declared to be a nonnavigable waterway of the United States within the meaning of the General Bridge Act of 1946 (33 U.S.C. 525 et seq.).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The General Bridge Act of 1946, referred to in text, is title V of act Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, 60 Stat. 847, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 525 et seq.) of chapter 11 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 525 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, , 100 Stat. 446.)

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