§ 931. — Navigable rivers as public highways.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC931]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 22--RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
Sec. 931. Navigable rivers as public highways
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.
(R.S. Sec. 2476.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2476 derived from acts May 18, 1796, ch. 29, Sec. 9, 1
Stat. 468; Mar. 3, 1803, ch. 27, Sec. 17, 2 Stat. 235.
