2013 US Code
Title 48 - Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 15 - CONVEYANCE OF SUBMERGED LANDS TO TERRITORIES (§§ 1701 - 1708)
Section 1706 - Reserved rights
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS CHAPTER 15 - CONVEYANCE OF SUBMERGED LANDS TO TERRITORIES Sec. 1706 - Reserved rights |
| Contains | section 1706 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | reserved |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 93-435, §2, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211; Pub. L. 113-34, §1(a), Sept. 18, 2013, 127 Stat. 518. |
| Statutes at Large References | 88 Stat. 1211, 1210 127 Stat. 518 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 93-435, Public Law 113-34 |
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Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the President to establish naval defensive sea areas and naval airspace reservations around and over the islands of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands when deemed necessary for national defense.
(b) Navigation; flood control; power productionNothing in this Act shall affect the use, development, improvement, or control by or under the constitutional authority of the United States of the lands transferred by section 1705 of this title, and the navigable waters overlying such lands, for the purposes of navigation or flood control or the production of power, or be construed as the release or relinquishment of any rights of the United States arising under the constitutional authority of Congress to regulate or improve navigation, or to provide for flood control or the production of power.
(c) Navigational servitude and powers of regulation for purposes of commerce, navigation, national defense, and international affairsThe United States retains all of its navigational servitude and rights in and powers of regulation and control of the lands conveyed by section 1705 of this title, and the navigable waters overlying such lands, for the constitutional purposes of commerce, navigation, national defense, and international affairs, all of which shall be paramount to, but shall not be deemed to include, proprietary rights of ownership, or the rights of management, administration, leasing, use, and development of the lands and natural resources which are specifically conveyed to the government of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, or American Samoa, as the case may be, by section 1705 of this title.
(d) Status of lands beyond the three-mile limitNothing in this Act shall affect the status of lands beyond the three-mile limit described in section 1705 of this title.
(Pub. L. 93–435, §2, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211; Pub. L. 113–34, §1(a), Sept. 18, 2013, 127 Stat. 518.)
REFERENCES IN TEXTThis Act, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), is Pub. L. 93–435, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1210, as amended, which enacted sections 1705 to 1708 of this title, amended section 1545 of this title, and repealed sections 1701 to 1703 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
AMENDMENTS2013—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 113–34 inserted "the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands," after "Guam,".
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