Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-33/chapter-1/section-53a.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "33 U.S.C. § 53a"
+description: "Additional portion of Benton Harbor Canal, abandoned as navigable water"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 33
+title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
+chapter_number: "1"
+chapter_name: "NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY"
+section: "53a"
+citation: "33 U.S.C. § 53a"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc33@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s53a"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-33/usc33.xml"
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+text_hash: "d71285aa8ce60cc92450fd8798f7d4e6100ef2beb6e187b1c5f548f8f95c711c"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 33 U.S.C. § 53a - Additional portion of Benton Harbor Canal, abandoned as navigable water
+
+## Text
+
+The Benton Harbor Canal, from the west line of Ninth Street extended northerly to the west line of Riverview Drive extended northerly in the city of Benton Harbor and State of Michigan, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be not a navigable water of the United States within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
+
+(Pub. L. 88–88, § 1, Aug. 5, 1963, 77 Stat. 118.)