Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks and bayous in this state, twenty-five (25) miles in length, and having sufficient depth and width of water for thirty (30) consecutive days in the year to float a steamboat with carrying capacity of two hundred (200) bales of cotton, are navigable waters of this state and public highways.Codes, 1906, § 1587; Hemingway's 1917, § 1354; 1930, § 1378; 1942, § 686; Laws, 1990 Ex Sess, ch. 45, § 141, eff. 6/29/1990.
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