Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 13 — Mississippi River Commission
§ 651. Tributaries of Mississippi River below Cairo; levee and bank protection
Statutory text
The jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission is extended, for the purposes of levee protection and bank protection, to the tributaries and outlets of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and the Head of the Passes, in so far as these tributaries and outlets are affected by the flood waters of the Mississippi River.
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. 67–427 § 13 · 42 Stat. 1038
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 651
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 13, 42 Stat. 1047.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 13, 42 Stat. 1047.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 13. That the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission Mississippi River Commission. Flood jurisdiction extended to the tributaries from Cairo to Head of Passes. is hereby extended, for the purposes of levee protection and bank protection, to the tributaries and outlets of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and the Head of the Passes, in so far as these tributaries and outlets are affected by the flood waters of the Mississippi River.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act for the year 1922.
Credits
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 13, 42 Stat. 1047.)