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43 U.S.C. § 931 — Navigable rivers as public highways

43 U.S.C. § 931

Type: Statute
Source: United States Code
Jurisdiction: Federal
Date: 2025-01-06
Topic: bankruptcy

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.

Citator

43 U.S.C. § 931 — Navigable rivers as public highways is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.

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.