Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16 : Section 831


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 831. Creation; short title

      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."



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