33 U.S.C. § 59a — Back Cove, Portland, Maine
submitted 69 years ago by Pub. L. 85-126 to r/title-33-NAVIGATION-AND-NAVIGABLE-WATERS · 130 words · no verdicts yet
This law declares part of Back Cove in Portland, Maine, nonnavigable. It also abandons part of the Back Cove federal shipping channel. Congress keeps the right to change this law later.
(a) Portion declared nonnavigable. The part of Back Cove at Portland, Maine, lying south of a line across the twelve-foot federal project channel in Back Cove, twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge, running to the head of Back Cove, is declared a nonnavigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
(b) Portion abandoned. That same southern part of the twelve-foot federal project channel in Back Cove, lying south of the line twenty-five hundred feet upstream from the Tukey Bridge to the head of Back Cove, a distance of about thirty-five hundred feet, is abandoned.
(c) Preservation of right to alter, amend or repeal section. Congress expressly keeps the right to alter, amend, or repeal this section.
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.
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.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 85–126, Aug. 13, 1957, 71 Stat. 344.)
- 1957Enacted · Pub. L. 85-126 · 71 Stat. 344
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 85-126 on 1957-08-13.
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