---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 702n"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "702n"
heading: "Levee rights-of-way; payment or reimbursement for"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/702n"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Flood Control"
---

# §702n. Levee rights-of-way; payment or reimbursement for


The [Secretary](/usc/33/426h–1.md?p=2) of the Army is authorized, out of any money available for carrying out the provisions of sections [702a](/usc/33/702a.md), [702b](/usc/33/702b.md) to [702d](/usc/33/702d.md), [702e](/usc/33/702e.md) to [702g](/usc/33/702g.md), [702h](/usc/33/702h.md), [702i](/usc/33/702i.md), [702j](/usc/33/702j.md), [702k](/usc/33/702k.md), [702l](/usc/33/702l.md), [702m](/usc/33/702m.md), and [704](/usc/33/704.md) of this title, to purchase from, or to reimburse States or local levee districts for the cost of, any levee rights-of-way or easements for the building of levees in the Mississippi Valley for which the United States was or is under obligation to pay under the provisions of said sections regardless of whether said States or local levee districts have furnished such rights-of-way in the past and regardless of the conditions under which such levee rights-of-way were furnished, or may be furnished in the future: Provided, That after careful investigation the prices are found to be reasonable: And provided further, That payments or reimbursements for levee rights-of-way or easements conveying the privilege of building levees may be made as soon as they have been acquired in conformity with local custom or legal procedure in such matters and to the satisfaction of the Chief of Engineers.


## Source credit

(Apr. 23, 1934, ch. 159, 48 Stat. 607; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.