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[CITE: 33USC558]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
           CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 558. Proceeds from sale or transfer of property acquired

    When any property which has been heretofore or may be hereafter 
purchased or acquired for the improvement of rivers and harbors is no 
longer needed, or is no longer serviceable and is transferred or sold, 
the proceeds thereof may be credited to the appropriation for the work 
for which it was acquired.

(June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, Sec. 5, 32 Stat. 373; Feb. 20, 1931, ch. 235, 
46 Stat. 1191; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, Sec. 4(4), 65 Stat. 709.)

                          Codification

    Section originally began with the words ``when any land or other'' 
preceding ``property''. The words, ``land or other'', were deleted on 
the basis of act February 20, 1931, which provided, ``that hereafter no 
real estate of the War Department shall be sold or disposed of without 
authority of Congress, and all existing Acts or parts thereof in 
conflict with this proviso, other than special Acts for the sale of 
stated tracts of land, are hereby repealed.''
    Section is from the first part of section 5 of act June 13, 1902, 
which was a provision of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act for 
1902. The last part of such section 5 is set out as section 631 of this 
title.


                               Amendments

    1951--Act Oct. 31, 1951, struck out provisions authorizing the 
Secretary of the Army to sell the unserviceable property referred to, 
and authorizing him to direct the transfer of any property employed in 
river and harbor works; struck out the provision that the property so 
transferred should be valued and credited to the project upon which it 
was theretofore used and charged to the project to which it was 
transferred; and inserted ``and is transferred or sold, the proceeds 
thereof may be credited to the appropriation for the work for which it 
was acquired''.
