§ 702k. Surveys below Cape Girardeau, Missouri; resurvey of levee in Tennessee

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. 1928

   Pub. L. 70–569 § 11 · 45 Stat. 534

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 702k

   May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 11, 45 Stat. 538

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 15, 1928, ch. 569, § 11, 45 Stat. 538

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 11. That the Secretary of War shall cause the Mississippi River Commission to make an examination and survey of the To report on constructing levees to protect lands subject to greater overflow by levees on opposite side of the river. Mississippi River below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, (a) at places where levees have heretofore been constructed on one side of the river and the lands on the opposite side have been thereby subjected to greater overflow, and where, without unreasonably restricting the flood channel, levees can be constructed to reduce the extent of this overflow, and where the construction of such levees is economically justified, and report thereon to the Congress as soon as practicable with such recommendations as the commission may deem advisable; To determine, etc., effect on lands between river and adjacent hills by overflow caused by levees at other points. (b) with a view to determining the estimated effects, if any, upon lands lying between the river and adjacent hills by reason of overflow of such lands caused by the construction of levees at other points along the Mississippi River, and determining the equities of the owners of such lands and the value of the same, and the commission shall report thereon to the Congress as soon as practicable with such recommendation as it may deem advisable: Provided, That in as much Proviso. Resurvey for levee from Tiptonville to the Obion River in Tennessee. as the Mississippi River Commission made a report on the 26th day of October, 1912, recommending a levee to be built from Tiptonville, Tennessee, to the Obion River in Tennessee, the said Mississippi River Commission is authorized to make a resurvey of said proposed levee and a relocation of the same if necessary, and if such levee is If feasible, to be built. found feasible, and is approved by the board created in section 1 of this Act, and by the President the same shall be built out of appropriations hereafter to be made.

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