2015 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters (Sections 1 - 4009)
Chapter 1 - Navigable Waters Generally (Sections 1 - 59kk)
Subchapter II - Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name (Sections 21 - 59kk)
Sec. 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 1 - NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER II - WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME
Sec. 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine
Containssection 59a
Date2015
Laws In Effect As Of DateJanuary 3, 2016
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditPub. L. 85-126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.
Statutes at Large Reference71 Stat. 344
Public and Private LawPublic Law 85-126

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33 U.S.C. § 59a (2015)
§59a. Back Cove, Portland, Maine(a) Portion declared nonnavigable

That portion of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying southerly of a line across the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, is declared to be a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

(b) Portion abandoned

That portion of the twelve-foot Federal project channel in Back Cove lying southerly of a line across the channel twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, to the head of Back Cove, a distance of approximately thirty-five hundred feet, is abandoned.

(c) Preservation of right to alter, amend or repeal section

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

(Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)

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