Title 33, Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-102
§629 Contract for Hire of Dredging Plant
Title 33 › CHAPTER 12 — RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › SUBCHAPTER V — PROSECUTION OF WORK GENERALLY › § 629
Summary
The Secretary of the Army may hire dredging plants or equipment to do public work he oversees. He can make those contracts the way they were usually done on March 2, 1907, or he can agree to pay a fair amount for wear and tear on the equipment plus a reasonable share of the total work cost.
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Title 33, §629
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Whenever it shall become, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army, necessary or desirable to hire a dredging plant or plants for the performance of any of the public work carried on under his direction the said Secretary may, in his discretion, agree for the same, either in the manner customary on March 2, 1907, or on the basis of an equitable reimbursement for deterioration of plant when in use by the Government, and a reasonable percentage of the total cost of the work.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section is from the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1907. The part of the original text omitted here repealed act Apr. 28, 1904, ch. 1761, § 4, 33 Stat. 452.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
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Citation
33 U.S.C. § 629
Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102