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[CITE: 33USC594]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
           CHAPTER 12--RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--ACQUISITION OF LAND AND MATERIALS
 
Sec. 594. When immediate possession of land may be taken

    Whenever the Secretary of the Army, in pursuance of authority 
conferred on him by law, causes proceedings to be instituted in the name 
of the United States for the acquirement by condemnation of any lands, 
easements, or rights of way needed for a work of river and harbor 
improvements duly authorized by Congress, the United States, upon the 
filing of the petition in any such proceedings, shall have the right to 
take immediate possession of said lands, easements, or rights-of-way, to 
the extent of the interest to be acquired, and proceed with such public 
works thereon as have been authorized by Congress: Provided, That 
certain and adequate provision shall have been made for the payment of 
just compensation to the party or parties entitled thereto, either by 
previous appropriation by the United States or by the deposit of moneys 
or other form of security in such amount and form as shall be approved 
by the court in which such proceedings shall be instituted. The 
respondent or respondents may move at any time in the court to increase 
or change the amounts or securities, and the court shall make such order 
as shall be just in the premises and as shall adequately protect the 
respondents. In every case the proceedings in condemnation shall be 
diligently prosecuted on the part of the United States in order that 
such compensation may be promptly ascertained and paid.

(July 18, 1918, ch. 155, Sec. 5, 40 Stat. 911; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

                          Codification

    Section is from act July 18, 1918, popularly known as the ``Rivers 
and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1918''.

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, 
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of 
the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 701c-2, 702d of this title.
