43 USC 931: Navigable rivers as public highways
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43 USC 931: Navigable rivers as public highways Text contains those laws in effect on November 23, 2024
From Title 43-PUBLIC LANDSCHAPTER 22-RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
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§931. Navigable rivers as public highways

All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.

(R.S. §2476.)


Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. §2476 derived from acts May 18, 1796, ch. 29, §9, 1 Stat. 468 ; Mar. 3, 1803, ch. 27, §17, 2 Stat. 235 .