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type: "LegalText"
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title: "43 U.S.C. § 931"
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description: "Navigable rivers as public highways"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 43
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title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
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chapter_number: "22"
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chapter_name: "RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"
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section: "931"
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citation: "43 U.S.C. § 931"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc43@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s931"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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# 43 U.S.C. § 931 - Navigable rivers as public highways
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## Text
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All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.
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(R.S. § 2476.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Codification R.S. § 2476 derived from acts May 18, 1796, ch. 29, § 9, 1 Stat. 468; Mar. 3, 1803, ch. 27, § 17, 2 Stat. 235.
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