[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR207.270]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

 CHAPTER II--CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                 DEFENSE

 

PART 207_NAVIGATION REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  207.270  Tallahatchie River, Miss., between Batesville and the 

mouth; logging.



    (a) The floating of ``sack'', rafts, or of loose timbers, logs, or 

cribs is prohibited.

    (b) Rafts shall be made up of logs parallel with each other, 

secured, and held closely together by cross sticks, chains, or cables 

placed across each crib and at the joints between cribs. No raft shall 

be over 60 feet wide or 800 feet long.



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    (c) In rafting nonbuoyant timber each crib must contain self-buoyant 

logs in such proportion of ``floaters'' to ``sinkers'' as will safely 

float the whole; and in assembling such cribs, extra strong connections 

must be used to prevent the breaking up of a crib or the detachment of 

individual logs.

    (d) No raft shall be moved at river stages less than that 

corresponding to a reading of 3\4/10\ feet on the U.S. Weather Bureau 

gage at Greenwood, Miss.

    (e) A raft in transit must be accompanied by sufficient men, or by 

power boats of sufficient capacity to properly manage the movement of 

the raft and to keep it from being an obstruction to other craft 

navigating the river, or from forming jams at bridges.

    (f) Rafts in transit must be so floated, and when not in transit be 

so tied to the bank, as not to interfere with the passage of boats.

    (g) When rafts are left with no one in attendance they must be 

securely tied at each end and at as many intermediate points as will 

prevent them from bagging into the stream. When left at night a white 

light shall be exposed at each end of the raft.

    (h) This section shall apply to the portion of the Tallahatchie 

River, Miss., between Batesville, Panola County, Miss., and the mouth.



[Regs. Feb. 18, 1918, as amended at 25 FR 8908, Sept. 16, 1960]