---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 727"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "727"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8512(a)(2), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4759"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/727"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Lighthouses"
---

# [§727. Repealed. Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8512(a)(2), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4759 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 4661, related to necessity for cession by State of jurisdiction for building of lighthouses and other sites.

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4661 derived from act Mar. 3, 1821, ch. 52, § 3, 3 Stat. 644.