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2000 U.S. Code
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12A - TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Sec. 831 - Creation; short title

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2000 Edition, Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12A - TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Sec. 831 - Creation; short title
Containssection 831
Date2000
Laws in Effect as of DateJanuary 2, 2001
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditMay 18, 1933, ch. 32, §1, 48 Stat. 58.
Statutes at Large Reference48 Stat. 58


§831. Creation; short title

For the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the National defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is created a body corporate by the name of the “Tennessee Valley Authority” (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”). The board of directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the board. This chapter may be cited as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.”

(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, §1, 48 Stat. 58.)

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