§ 630. — Limitation on expenditure for purchase of dredges.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC630]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER V--PROSECUTION OF WORK GENERALLY
Sec. 630. Limitation on expenditure for purchase of dredges
No money authorized to be expended for the acquirement of any dredge
or dredges shall be so expended for the purchase of any dredge or
dredges from private contractors, which at the time of the proposed
purchase can be manufactured at any navy yard or other government-owned
factory for a sum less than it can be purchased for from such private
contractor.
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, Sec. 5, 42 Stat. 1042.)
Codification
Section is from part of section 5 of the Rivers and Harbors
Appropriation Act for 1922.
The omitted portion of that section authorized the construction of
six seagoing hopper dredges and limited the cost of each to $750,000.
