§ 1315. — Rights acquired under laws of United States unaffected.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1315]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 29--SUBMERGED LANDS
SUBCHAPTER II--LANDS BENEATH NAVIGABLE WATERS WITHIN STATE BOUNDARIES
Sec. 1315. Rights acquired under laws of United States
unaffected
Nothing contained in this subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter
shall affect such rights, if any, as may have been acquired under any
law of the United States by any person in lands subject to this
subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter and such rights, if any,
shall be governed by the law in effect at the time they may have been
acquired: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this subchapter
or subchapter I of this chapter is intended or shall be construed as a
finding, interpretation, or construction by the Congress that the law
under which such rights may be claimed in fact or in law applies to the
lands subject to this subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter, or
authorizes or compels the granting of such rights in such lands, and
that the determination of the applicability or effect of such law shall
be unaffected by anything contained in this subchapter or subchapter I
of this chapter.
(May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, Sec. 8, 67 Stat. 32.)
