33 USC § 59u - Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey
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identifier: "/us/usc/t33/s59u"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "33 USC § 59u - Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey"
title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
section_number: "59u"
section_name: "Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "WATERS DECLARED NONNAVIGABLE: CHANGE OF NAME"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 446.)"
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# § 59u. Lawyer’s Ditch, Essex County, New Jersey
33 U.S.C. 525
The body of water known as Lawyer’s Ditch located at block 5,000 in the city of Newark, county of Essex, New Jersey, is declared to be a nonnavigable waterway of the United States within the meaning of the General Bridge Act of 1946 ( et seq.).
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 99–307, § 3, May 19, 1986, 100 Stat. 446.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
The General Bridge Act of 1946, referred to in text, is title V of , , which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 525 et seq.) of chapter 11 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under and Tables.