FEDERAL · 43 U.S.C. · Chapter 22
Navigable rivers as public highways
43 U.S.C. § 931
Title43 — Public Lands
Chapter22 — RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
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43 U.S.C. § 931.
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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.
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History
(R.S. §2476.)
Editorial Notes
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.
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.
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