16-U.S.C.-831
§831 – Creation; Short Title
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Title 16 > Chapter 12A > Section 831
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- Reference: Section 831
- Legend: §831 – Creation; Short Title
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
For the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the National defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is created a body corporate by the name of the Tennessee Valley Authority (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). The Board of Directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting of the Board. This chapter may be cited as the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.
(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, §1, 48 Stat. 58; Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, §603(a), Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2966.)
Amendments
2004—Pub. L. 108–447 substituted Board of Directors for board of directors and Board for board.
Effective Date of 2004 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.
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