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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission

§ 677. Limitation as to quantity of debris washed away

Statutory text

At no time shall any more debris be permitted to be washed away from any hydraulic mine or mines situated on the tributaries of said rivers and the respective branches of each, worked under the provisions of this chapter, than can be impounded within the restraining works erected.

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. 52–183 § 17 · 27 Stat. 507

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 677

    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 17, 27 Stat. 509.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 17, 27 Stat. 509.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 17. That at no time shall any more debris be permitted to be Limit of debris washed away. washed away from any hydraulic mine or mines situated on the tributaries of said rivers and the respective branches of each, worked under the provisions of this act, than can be impounded within the restraining works erected.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 17, 27 Stat. 509.)

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