---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 10"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "10"
heading: "Waters in Louisiana Purchase as public highways"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/10"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §10. Waters in Louisiana Purchase as public highways


All the navigable rivers and waters in the former Territories of Orleans and Louisiana shall be and forever remain public highways.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 5251.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5251 derived from act Mar. 3, 1811, ch. 46, § 12, 2 Stat. 606.