Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§831 Creation; Short Title
Title 16 › CHAPTER 12A — TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY › § 831
Summary
Creates the Tennessee Valley Authority to run properties near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for defense, economic development, better river navigation, and flood control in the Tennessee and Mississippi River basins. The first Board are the founders and it starts at their first meeting; the chapter is the "Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933."
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §831
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For the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the National defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is created a body corporate by the name of the “Tennessee Valley Authority” (hereinafter referred to as the “Corporation”). The Board of Directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the Board. This chapter may be cited as the “Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.”
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board of Directors” for “board of directors” and “Board” for “board”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2004 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments;
Effective Date
Transition note under section 831a of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 831
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102