2017 US Code
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 1 - Navigable Waters Generally
Subchapter II - Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name
Sec. 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine

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Citation 33 U.S.C. § 59a (2017)
Section Name §59a. Back Cove, Portland, Maine
Section Text (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.

Source Credit

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

Publication Title United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 33 - NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 1 - NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER II - WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME
Sec. 59a - Back Cove, Portland, Maine
Contains section 59a
Date 2017
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 12, 2018
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 71 Stat. 344
Public Law References Public Law 85-126
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