Navigable waters definition

Navigable waters. ’ means the waters of the United States, including the territorial sea;
Navigable waters. (NR 115.03(5)) means Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within Wisconsin and all streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages and other waters within the territorial limits of this state, including the Wisconsin portion of boundary waters, which are navigable under the laws of this state. Under s. 281.31(2)(d), Stats, notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative rule promulgated thereunder, shoreland ordinances required under s. 59.692, Stats, and ch. NR 115, Wis. Adm. Code, do not apply to lands adjacent to:
Navigable waters means all lakes, rivers, and streams, which can support a vessel capable of carrying one or more persons during a total of six months in one out of every ten years.

Examples of Navigable waters in a sentence

  • Navigable waters of the United States are waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of a tide and/or are presently used, or have been used in the past, or may be susceptible for use to transport interstate or foreign commerce.

  • Navigable waters with- in the State not marked with Coast Guard aids to navigation as of May 1, 1996.

  • Navigable waters within the State not marked with Coast Guard aids to navigation on June 1, 1973.

  • TC  Navigable waters DND  Provide advice in regard to defence matters in the Cabot Strait ECBC  Provide advice in regard to federal property in Cape Breton PWGSC  Provide advice in regard to real property under the FRPFIA Other Departments/Agencies AANDC  Provide advice in regard to Aboriginal consultation.

  • Navigable waters: Waters subject to section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.


More Definitions of Navigable waters

Navigable waters means Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within Wisconsin and all streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages and other waters within the territorial limits of this state, including the Wisconsin portion of boundary waters, which are navigable under the laws of this state. Under s. 281.31
Navigable waters means those waters of the state over which this state and the United States Coast Guard exercise concurrent jurisdiction, including the Great Lakes and waters connected to the Great Lakes, to the upstream limit of navigation as determined by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
Navigable waters means the waters of the United States as
Navigable waters means waters that were in fact navigable at the time of statehood, and that are used, were used, or were susceptible of being used in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce over which trade and travel were or may have been conducted in the customary modes of trade on water.
Navigable waters. ’ means those parts of streams or other bodies of water over which Congress has jurisdiction under its authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and which ei- ther in their natural or improved condition notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land car- riage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in inter- state or foreign commerce, including therein all such interrupting falls, shallows, or rapids, together with such other parts of streams as shall have been authorized by Congress for im- provement by the United States or shall have been recommended to Congress for such im- provement after investigation under its au- thority;
Navigable waters means all waters declared navigable by ch. 30.
Navigable waters means waters that come under the jurisdiction of the department of the army of the United States and any waterways within or adjacent to this state, except inland lakes having neither a navigable inlet nor outlet.