---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 870"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "870"
heading: "Repealed. Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 837, title V, § 502(7), 70 Stat. 886"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/870"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# [§870. Repealed. Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 837, title V, § 502(7), 70 Stat. 886 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Jan. 19, 1942, ch. 6, § 9, 56 Stat. 8; Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 141, § 4, 58 Stat. 130; July 15, 1954, ch. 507, § 15, 68 Stat. 481, provided for payment of death gratuity to survivors of commissioned officers of Coast and Geodetic Survey.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Jan. 1, 1957, see section 603(a) of act Aug. 1, 1956.