Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73not60
§558 Proceeds From Sale or Transfer of Property Acquired
Title 33 › Chapter 12— RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter I— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 558
Summary
When land or equipment bought for river and harbor projects is no longer needed or becomes unusable and is sold or given away, the money from that sale can be put back into the same project's funds. This rule applies to property bought in the past or bought later.
Full Legal Text
Title 33, §558
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When any property which has been heretofore or may be hereafter purchased or acquired for the improvement of rivers and harbors is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable and is transferred or sold, the proceeds thereof may be credited to the appropriation for the work for which it was acquired.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section originally began with the words “when any land or other” preceding “property”. The words, “land or other”, were deleted on the basis of act
February 20, 1931, which provided, “that hereafter no real estate of the War Department shall be sold or disposed of without authority of Congress, and all existing Acts or parts thereof in conflict with this proviso, other than special Acts for the sale of stated tracts of land, are hereby repealed.” Section is from the first part of section 5 of act
June 13, 1902, which was a provision of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act for 1902. The last part of such section 5 is set out as section 631 of this title.
Amendments
1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, struck out provisions authorizing the Secretary of the Army to sell the unserviceable property referred to, and authorizing him to direct the transfer of any property employed in river and harbor works; struck out the provision that the property so transferred should be valued and credited to the project upon which it was theretofore used and charged to the project to which it was transferred; and inserted “and is transferred or sold, the proceeds thereof may be credited to the appropriation for the work for which it was acquired”.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 558
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60