Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally
§ 631. Transfer of property between projects
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Army may direct a temporary transfer of any property employed in the improvement of rivers and harbors whenever, in his judgment, such transfer would secure efficient or economical results, and such adjustment in the way of charges and credits shall be made between the projects affected as may be equitable.
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.
Pub. L. 57–1079 § 5 · 32 Stat. 331
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 631
June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 5, 32 Stat. 373
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 5, 32 Stat. 373Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. That when any land or other property which has been heretofore Unserviceable property may be sold. or may be hereafter purchased or acquired for the improvement of rivers and harbors is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the Secretary of War may direct, and the proceeds credited to the appropriation for the work for which it was purchased or acquired; and the Secretary of War may direct the Transfer of property. transfer of any property employed in river and harbor works, and in such event the property so transferred shall be valued and credited to the project upon which it was theretofore used and charged to the project to which it shall be transferred. The Secretary may also direct a temporary transfer of any property employed in the improvement of rivers and harbors whenever, in his judgment, such transfer would secure efficient or economical results, and such adjustment in the way of charges and credits shall be made between the projects affected as may be equitable.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from part of section 5 of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1902.
The omitted part of that section is set out as section 558 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Credits
1902–1947 · 2 acts
- 1902June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 5, 32 Stat. 373
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
Show as published
(June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, § 5, 32 Stat. 373; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)