Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 15 — Flood Control
§ 702f. Expenditures for earlier projects
Statutory text
Funds appropriated under authority of section 702a of this title may be expended for the prosecution of such works for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River as have, prior to , been authorized and are not included in the present project, including levee work on the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and on the outlets and tributaries of the Mississippi River between Rock Island and Head of Passes insofar as such outlets or tributaries are affected by the backwaters of the Mississippi: Provided, That for such work on the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and on such tributaries, the States or levee districts shall provide rights-of-way without cost to the United States, contribute 33⅓ per centum of the costs of the works, and maintain them after completion: And provided further, That not more than $10,000,000 of the sums authorized in section 702a of this title, shall be expended under the provisions of this section. In an emergency, funds appropriated under authority of section 702a of this title may be expended for the maintenance of any levee when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Army that the levee cannot be adequately maintained by the State or levee district.
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. 70–569 § 6 · 45 Stat. 534
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 702f
May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 6, 45 Stat. 536
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 6, 45 Stat. 536Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. Funds appropriated under authority of section 1 of this Act may be expended for the prosecution of such works for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River as have heretofore been authorized and are not included in the present project, including levee work on the Mississippi River between Rock Island, Illinois, Levees specified. and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and on the outlets and tributaries of the Mississippi River between Rock Island and Head of Passes in so far as such outlets or tributaries are affected by the backwaters of the Mississippi: Provided, That for such work on the Mississippi Provisos. Share in costs of rights of way, etc., by States, etc., between Rock Island and Cape Girardeau, etc. River between Rock Island, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and on such tributaries, the States or levee districts shall provide rights of way without cost to the United States, contribute 331/3 per centum of the costs of the works, and maintain them after completion: And provided further, That not more than $10,000,000 of Expenditure limited. the sums authorized in section 1 of this Act, shall be expended under the provisions of this section. In an emergency, funds appropriated under authority of section 1 Funds in emergency for maintenance of a levee, if State, etc., unable to do so. of this Act may be expended for the maintenance of any levee when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that the levee can not be adequately maintained by the State or levee district.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Credits
1928–1947 · 2 acts
- 1928May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 6, 45 Stat. 536
- 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
Show as published
(May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 6, 45 Stat. 536; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)