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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission

§ 678. Modification and revocation of permit to mine

Statutory text

The said commission may, at any time when the condition of the navigable rivers or when the capacities of all impounding and settling facilities erected by mine owners or such as may be provided by Government authority require same, modify the order granting the privilege to mine by the hydraulic mining process so as to reduce the amount thereof to meet the capacities of the facilities then in use; or, if actually required in order to protect the navigable rivers from damage or in case of failure to pay the tax prescribed by section 683 of this title within thirty days after same becomes due, may revoke same until the further notice of the commission.

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 § 18 · 27 Stat. 507

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 678

    Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 18, 27 Stat. 509

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 18, 27 Stat. 509

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 18. That the said commission may at any time, when the condition Modifications, etc., of orders. of the navigable rivers or when the capacities of all impounding and settling facilities erected by mine-owners or such as may be Provided by Government authority require same, modify the order granting the privilege to mine by the hydraulic mining process so as to reduce amount thereof to meet the capacities of the facilities then in use, or if actually required in order to protect the navigable rivers from damage, may revoke same until the further notice of the commission.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1934—Act , inserted “or in case of failure to pay the tax prescribed by section 683 of this title within thirty days after same becomes due”.

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

1893–1934 · 2 acts
  1. 1893Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 18, 27 Stat. 509
  2. 1934June 19, 1934, ch. 661, § 1, 48 Stat. 1118.
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(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 18, 27 Stat. 509; June 19, 1934, ch. 661, § 1, 48 Stat. 1118.)

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