ALLcrimesfood&drugstaxestelecomcommercehealthconservationtransportationagricultureveteransbrowse all titles »
0

33 U.S.C. § 467c — Determination of danger to human life and property

submitted 54 years ago by Pub. L. 92-367 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 72 words · no verdicts yet

in plain englishAI-generated · not legal advice

To decide if a dam is dangerous, the Secretary must consider many possible risks. These include overtopping, seepage, erosion, cracking, earthquakes, and failure of gates or bulkheads. The Secretary must weigh any conditions near the dam that exist now or might happen.

This section is a single, undivided provision. To decide whether a dam — including the water it holds back — poses a danger to human life or property, the Secretary must consider the chance that the dam could be threatened by overtopping (water spilling over the top), seepage, settling, erosion, sediment buildup, cracking, ground movement, earthquakes, or failure of bulkheads, flashboards, or conduit gates, along with any other condition that exists or might happen in the area around the dam.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

For the purpose of determining whether a dam (including the waters impounded by such dam) constitutes a danger to human life or property, the Secretary shall take into consideration the possibility that the dam might be endangered by overtopping, seepage, settlement, erosion, sediment, cracking, earth movement, earthquakes, failure of bulkheads, flashboard, gates on conduits, or other conditions which exist or which might occur in any area in the vicinity of the dam.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 92–367, § 5, formerly § 4, Aug. 8, 1972, 86 Stat. 507; renumbered § 5 and amended Pub. L. 104–303, title II, § 215(c)(3), (7), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3685, 3687.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1972Enacted · Pub. L. 92-367 · 86 Stat. 507
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-303 · 110 Stat. 3685, 3687

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 92-367 on 1972-08-08.

all 0 arguments · sorted by: best

0/280

no arguments yet — make the first case