§ 421. — Deposit of refuse, etc., in Lake Michigan near Chicago.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC421]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 9--PROTECTION OF NAVIGABLE WATERS AND OF HARBOR AND RIVER
IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER I--IN GENERAL
Sec. 421. Deposit of refuse, etc., in Lake Michigan near Chicago
It shall not be lawful to throw, discharge, dump, or deposit, or
cause, suffer, or procure, to be thrown, discharged, dumped, or
deposited, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other
than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a
liquid state into Lake Michigan, at any point opposite or in front of
the county of Cook, in the State of Illinois, or the county of Lake in
the State of Indiana, within eight miles from the shore of said lake,
unless said material shall be placed inside of a breakwater so arranged
as not to permit the escape of such refuse material into the body of the
lake and cause contamination thereof; and no officer of the Government
shall dump or cause or authorize to be dumped any material contrary to
the provisions of this section: Provided, however, That the provisions
of this section shall not apply to work in connection with the
construction, repair, and protection of breakwaters and other structures
built in aid of navigation, or for the purpose of obtaining water
supply. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined for
each offense not exceeding $1,000.
(June 23, 1910, ch. 359, 36 Stat. 593.)
Codification
Section is from act June 23, 1910, popularly known as the ``Rivers
and Harbors Act of 1910''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1371 of this title.
