---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 669"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "669"
heading: "Petition by hydraulic miners"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/669"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission"
---

# §669. Petition by hydraulic miners


The individual proprietor or proprietors, or in case of a corporation, its manager or agent appointed for that purpose, owning mining ground in the territory in the State of California mentioned in [section 663 of this title](/usc/33/663.md), which it is desired to work by the hydraulic process, must file with said commission a verified petition, setting forth such facts as will comply with law and the rules prescribed by said commission.


## Source credit

(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 9, 27 Stat. 508.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

California Debris Commission abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of the Army by Pub. L. 99–662, title XI, § 1106, Nov. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 4229, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.