---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 855a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "855a"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 85–857, § 14(79), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1272"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/855a"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# [§855a. Repealed. Pub. L. 85–857, § 14(79), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1272 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Dec. 3, 1942, ch. 670, § 2, 56 Stat. 1038; Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 738, 68 Stat. 730, related to rights and benefits of commissioned officers of Coast and Geodetic Survey assigned to projects of Army and Navy outside continental United States or in hazardous military areas.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal by Pub. L. 85–857 effective Jan. 1, 1959, see section 2 of Pub. L. 85–857, set out as an Effective Date note preceding Part I of Title 38, Veterans’ Benefits.