43 USC § 931 - Navigable rivers as public highways

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s931"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 931 - Navigable rivers as public highways"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "931"
section_name: "Navigable rivers as public highways"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(R.S. § 2476.)"
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# § 931. Navigable rivers as public highways

All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 2476.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2476 derived from acts , ; , .