{"data":{"id":"us/43-u.s.c.-931","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"43 U.S.C. § 931","heading":"Navigable rivers as public highways","body":"All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.","path":["Title 43—PUBLIC LANDS","CHAPTER 22—RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc43@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T06:00:36Z","sha256":"149dd7bd279ce89e2d87b451a7a8b2dc900582d35b02d26caa15b57c154a8d92","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/43-u.s.c.-921-to-929","next":"us/43-u.s.c.-931a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}