Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12A — Boulder Canyon Project
§ 617q. Effect on authority of States to control waters within own borders
Statutory text
Nothing herein shall be construed as interfering with such rights as the States had on , either to the waters within their borders or to adopt such policies and enact such laws as they deem necessary with respect to the appropriation, control, and use of waters within their borders, except as modified by the Colorado River compact or other interstate agreement.
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. 70–42 § 18 · 45 Stat. 61
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 617q
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 18, 45 Stat. 1065.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 18, 45 Stat. 1065.)
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Credits
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, § 18, 45 Stat. 1065.)