---
urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:456"
article_number: "456"
status: active
heading: "Banks of navigable rivers or streams."
breadcrumb: "Book II › Title I › Chapter 1 › Section 1"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=110631"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 1978, No. 728, §1."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1978
    act_number: 728
    section: 1
    role: enactment
schema_version: "1.0.0"
---

# Art. 456. Banks of navigable rivers or streams.

The banks of navigable rivers or streams are private things that are subject to public use.

The bank of a navigable river or stream is the land lying between the ordinary low and the ordinary high stage of the water. Nevertheless, when there is a levee in proximity to the water, established according to law, the levee shall form the bank.