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type: "LegalText"
title: "33 U.S.C. § 651"
description: "Tributaries of Mississippi River below Cairo; levee and bank protection"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
chapter_number: "13"
chapter_name: "MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION"
section: "651"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 651"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 651 - Tributaries of Mississippi River below Cairo; levee and bank protection
## Text
The jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission is extended, for the purposes of levee protection and bank protection, to the tributaries and outlets of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois, and the Head of the Passes, in so far as these tributaries and outlets are affected by the flood waters of the Mississippi River.
(Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 427, § 13, 42 Stat. 1047.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is from the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act for the year 1922.