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43 U.S.C. § 931

Navigable rivers as public highways

United States · Title 43 — PUBLIC LANDS · Status: effective

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43 U.S.C. § 931, Navigable rivers as public highways, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/486000
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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.

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