§ 1313. — Exceptions from operation of section 1311 of this title.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1313]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
SUBCHAPTER II--LANDS BENEATH NAVIGABLE WATERS WITHIN STATE BOUNDARIES
Sec. 1313. Exceptions from operation of section 1311 of this
title
There is excepted from the operation of section 1311 of this title--
(a) all tracts or parcels of land together with all accretions
thereto, resources therein, or improvements thereon, title to which
has been lawfully and expressly acquired by the United States from
any State or from any person in whom title had vested under the law
of the State or of the United States, and all lands which the United
States lawfully holds under the law of the State; all lands
expressly retained by or ceded to the United States when the State
entered the Union (otherwise than by a general retention or cession
of lands underlying the marginal sea); all lands acquired by the
United States by eminent domain proceedings, purchase, cession,
gift, or otherwise in a proprietary capacity; all lands filled in,
built up, or otherwise reclaimed by the United States for its own
use; and any rights the United States has in lands presently and
actually occupied by the United States under claim of right;
(b) such lands beneath navigable waters held, or any interest in
which is held by the United States for the benefit of any tribe,
band, or group of Indians or for individual Indians; and
(c) all structures and improvements constructed by the United
States in the exercise of its navigational servitude.
(May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, Sec. 5, 67 Stat. 32.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 2105 of this title.
