---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 9"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "9"
heading: "Des Moines River as toll free"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §9. Des Moines River as toll free


The Des Moines River shall forever remain free from any toll, or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service, passing along the same.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 5246.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 5246 derived from acts Aug. 8, 1846, ch. 103, § 3, 9 Stat. 78; Jan. 20, 1870, ch. 7, 16 Stat. 61.