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title: "33 U.S.C. § 51"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 51 - Scajaquada Creek, New York

## Text

Scajaquada Creek, Erie County, New York, is declared to be nonnavigable east of a line one hundred and thirty feet west of the west line of Niagara Street, city of Buffalo, county of Erie, New York, within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.

(May 14, 1937, ch. 183, §§ 1, 2, 50 Stat. 165.)