33 U.S.C. § 59c (2024)
This is the official text of 33 U.S.C. § 59c (2024), part of Federal (US Code)’s United States Code — the codified general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, organized into more than 50 numbered titles by subject.
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East River, New York
Official statutory text
That portion of the East River, in New York County, State of New York, lying between the south line of East Seventeenth Street, extended eastwardly, the United States pierhead line as it existed on July 1, 1965, and the south line of East Thirtieth Street, extended eastwardly, is hereby declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States.
(Pub. L. 89–298, title III, §307, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094.)
(Pub. L. 89–298, title III, §307, Oct. 27, 1965, 79 Stat. 1094.)
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