Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§11 Authority for Compact Between Middle Northwest States as to Jurisdiction of Offenses Committed on Boundary Waters
Title 33 › CHAPTER 1 — NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 11
Summary
Congress lets North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska — or any two or more of them — make agreements or pass laws, so long as they don't conflict with the U.S. Constitution or federal law, to decide which state handles crimes on waters that form or cross their borders. Congress also approves the Minnesota–South Dakota agreement shown by acts approved April 20, 1917, and February 13, 1917.
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Title 33, §11
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The consent of the Congress is given to the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, or any two or more of them, by such agreement or compact as they may deem desirable or necessary, or as may be evidenced by legislative acts enacted by any two or more of said States, not in conflict with the Constitution of the United States or any law thereof, to determine and settle the jurisdiction to be exercised by said States, respectively, over offenses arising out of the violation of the laws of any of said States upon any of the waters forming the boundary lines between any two or more of said States, or waters through which such boundary line extends, and that the consent of the Congress be, and the same is, given to the concurrent jurisdiction agreed to by the States of Minnesota and South Dakota, as evidenced by the act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota approved April 20, 1917, and the act of the Legislature of the State of South Dakota approved February 13, 1917.
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Codification This section is from a resolution entitled a “Joint Resolution giving consent of the Congress of the United States to the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, or any two or more of said States, to agree upon the jurisdiction to be exercised by said States over boundary waters between any two or more of said States”.
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33 U.S.C. § 11
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102