---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 559"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "559"
heading: "Disposition of rentals for Government plants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/559"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §559. Disposition of rentals for Government plants


Amounts paid after August 8, 1917, by private parties or other agencies for rental of plant owned by the Government in connection with the prosecution of river and harbor works shall be deposited in each case to the credit of the appropriation to which the plant belongs.


## Source credit

(Aug. 8, 1917, ch. 49, § 13, 40 Stat. 268.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from act Aug. 8, 1917, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1917”.