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title: "48 U.S.C. § 1399"
description: "Repealed. Pub. L. 97–357, title III, § 308(b), Oct. 19, 1982, 96 Stat. 1710"
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title_number: 48
title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
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chapter_name: "VIRGIN ISLANDS"
section: "1399"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1399"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 1399 - Repealed. Pub. L. 97–357, title III, § 308(b), Oct. 19, 1982, 96 Stat. 1710

## Notes

Section, acts July 3, 1930, ch. 847, § 8, 46 Stat. 948; July 1, 1932, ch. 370, § 1, 47 Stat. 565, made applicable to the Virgin Islands and the navigable waters thereof, certain provisions of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, relating to obstruction of navigable waters.