How to use the Navigability Toolkit©

This Navigability Toolkit is intended to serve as a starting point on navigability law. The Toolkit serves as an educational tool, trying to explain in simple terms the public's rights to access and float rivers and streams. It is by no means the final authority in each state on this topic. It is intended to merely act as a springboard for further research of the law.

This document is laid out in a simple format that has each state's laws detailed separately from other states. Under each state heading there are four sections:

1) Summary

2) State Test of Navigability

3) Extent of Public Rights in Navigable Rivers

4) Miscellaneous

All the research used is cited in footnotes. The source used for citation format is The Bluebook, a Uniform System of Citation, 16th ed., compiled by the editors of the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.

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