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title: "33 U.S.C. § 2719"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 2719 - State financial responsibility

## Text

A State may enforce, on the navigable waters of the State, the requirements for evidence of financial responsibility under section 2716 of this title.

(Pub. L. 101–380, title I, § 1019, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 506.)