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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 621. By what methods river and harbor work may be authorized to be prosecuted

Statutory text

Any public work on canals, rivers, and harbors adopted by Congress may be prosecuted by direct appropriations, by continuing contracts, or by both direct appropriations and continuing contracts.

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. 67–427 § 10 · 42 Stat. 1038

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 621

    (Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 10, 42 Stat. 1043.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 10, 42 Stat. 1043.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 10. That any work of improvement herein adopted, and any Works authorized by direct appropriations, continuing contracts, or both. public work on canals, rivers, and harbors adopted by Congress may be prosecuted by direct appropriations, by continuing contracts, or by both direct appropriations and continuing contracts.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1922.

Credits

(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 10, 42 Stat. 1043.)

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