---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 55"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "55"
heading: "Bayou Savage (or Chantilly) in New Orleans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/55"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Waters Declared Nonnavigable: Change of Name"
---

# §55. Bayou Savage (or Chantilly) in New Orleans


Bayou Savage, also styled Bayou Chantilly, in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is declared to be a nonnavigable waterway within the meaning of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.


## Source credit

(Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 650, 50 Stat. 649.)