Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 13 — Mississippi River Commission
§ 653a. Extension of jurisdiction of Mississippi River Commission
Statutory text
The jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission, established by section 641 of this title, is extended to include—
all of the area between the eastern side of the Bayou Lafourche Ridge from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico and the west guide levee of the Mississippi River from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico;
Alexander County, Illinois; and
the area in the State of Illinois from the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers northward to the vicinity of Mississippi River mile 39.5, including the Len Small Drainage and Levee District, insofar as such area is 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.
Water Resources Development Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–303 title V § 517 · 110 Stat. 3658
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 653a
(Pub. L. 104–303, title V, § 517, Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3764.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–303, title V, § 517, Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3764.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 517. EXTENSION OF JURISDICTION OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION. The jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission, established by the 1st section of the Act of June 28, 1879 (33 U.S.C. 641; 21 Stat. 37), is extended to include— (1) all of the area between the eastern side of the Bayou Lafourche Ridge from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico and the west guide levee of the Mississippi River from Donaldsonville, Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico; (2) Alexander County, Illinois; and (3) the area in the State of Illinois from the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers northward to the vicinity of Mississippi River mile 39.5, including the Len Small Drainage and Levee District, insofar as such area is affected by the flood waters of the Mississippi River.
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