33 U.S.C. § 702 : US Code - Section 702: Mississippi River

Search 33 U.S.C. § 702 : US Code - Section 702: Mississippi River

Authorization of flood-control work - For controlling the floods
of the Mississippi River and continuing its improvement from the
Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River the Secretary of
the Army is empowered, authorized, and directed to carry on
continuously, by hired labor or otherwise, the plans of the
Mississippi River Commission, prior to March 3, 1923, or thereafter
adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be
made by law.
Allotments for improvement of watercourses connected with
Mississippi River - The watercourses connected with the Mississippi
River to such extent as may be necessary to exclude the flood
waters from the upper limits of any delta basin, together with the
Ohio River from its mouth to the mouth of the Cache River, may, in
the discretion of said commission, receive allotments for
improvements under way March 1, 1917, or thereafter to be
undertaken.
Maintenance of levees constructed for flood control - Upon the
completion of any levee constructed for flood control under
authority of this section, said levee shall be turned over to the
levee district protected thereby for maintenance thereafter; but
for all other purposes the United States shall retain such control
over the same as it may have the right to exercise upon such
completion.