Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission
§ 662. Organization; compensation of members; rules and regulations of procedure; traveling expenses
Statutory text
Said commission shall organize by the selection of such officers as may be required in the performance of its duties the same to be selected from the members thereof. The members of said commission shall receive no greater compensation than is now allowed by law to each, respectively, as an officer of said Corps of Engineers. It shall also adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, to govern its deliberations and prescribe the method of procedure under the provisions of this chapter. While traveling on duty the officers of the commission shall receive the mileage allowed by law.
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. 52–183 § 2 · 27 Stat. 507
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 662
Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 2, 27 Stat. 507
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 2, 27 Stat. 507Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That said commission shall organize within thirty days after Organization. its appointment by the selection of such officers as may be required in the performance of its duties, the same to be selected from the members thereof. The members of said commission shall receive no greater Compensation. compensation than is now allowed by law to each, respectively, as an officer of said Corps of Engineers. It shall also adopt rules and regulations, Rules, etc., of procedure. not inconsistant with law, to govern its deliberations and prescribe the method of procedure under the provisions of this act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
The last sentence of this section is from a provision accompanying an appropriation for the expenses of the Commission in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for 1901, which originally read as follows: “So much of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as provides that the members of the California Debris Commission shall receive only actual expenses in lieu of mileage while traveling on duty is hereby repealed, and hereafter the officers of the commission shall receive the mileage allowed by law.”
Act Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 424, § 1, 30 Stat. 1109, mentioned in said provision, provided that the officers of the Commission traveling on duty might be paid their actual traveling expenses, in lieu of mileage allowed by law, and should thereafter receive no mileage.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, , 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.
Credits
1893–1900 · 2 acts
- 1893Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 2, 27 Stat. 507
- 1900June 6, 1900, ch. 791, § 1, 31 Stat. 631.
Show as published
(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 2, 27 Stat. 507; June 6, 1900, ch. 791, § 1, 31 Stat. 631.)