---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 581"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "581"
heading: "Hiring special means of transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/581"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter II — Pay and Allowances; Traveling Expenses and Subsistence"
---

# §581. Hiring special means of transportation


In their execution and inspection of river and harbor improvement work, at points beyond easy reach of ordinary regular transportation lines, Engineer officers are authorized to hire and use such transportation as they may consider desirable and advantageous to the progress of work.


## Source credit

(July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 9, 37 Stat. 233.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is from act July 25, 1912, popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1912”.