§ 1303. Vessels adrift or abandoned on public property and lost, abandoned, or stolen property relating to vessels.
§ 1303. Vessels adrift or abandoned on public property and lost, abandoned, or stolen property relating to vessels. (a) A person finding or having in that person’s own possession a vessel that was adrift or abandoned, or any lost, abandoned, or stolen property relating to a vessel, shall turn the vessel or property over to […]
§ 1304. Vessels and property relating to vessels adrift or abandoned on private property.
§ 1304. Vessels and property relating to vessels adrift or abandoned on private property. (a) Abandoned vessels and property relating to vessels on the strand on private property, such as private waters, private subaqueous land, private marinas, private docks, and private boatyards, may be seized, removed, transported, preserved, stored, and disposed of by the Department […]
§ 1305. Penalties; jurisdiction.
§ 1305. Penalties; jurisdiction. A person who abandons a vessel or property relating to a vessel on public or private property for more than 30 days or who violates any other provision of § 1303 or § 1304 of this title is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $100 nor more than […]
§ 1501. Limitation on wharves in City of New Castle.
§ 1501. Limitation on wharves in City of New Castle. Whoever builds or extends any wharf or wharves or landing places, filled up solid from the foundation into the Delaware River, further than by the determination and limitation by the City Council of the City of New Castle of the wharf line in front of […]
§ 1502. Laurel River; wharf lines and limitations.
§ 1502. Laurel River; wharf lines and limitations. Commissioners appointed under 18 Del. Laws, c. 224, having adjusted and determined certain limits on each side of the Laurel River in Sussex County, from the iron bridge over the river down river, to which wharves may be extended out into the river, and having returned their […]
§ 1105. Mistreatment of buoy, beacon and daymark; notice; penalty; disposition of fine.
§ 1105. Mistreatment of buoy, beacon and daymark; notice; penalty; disposition of fine. Whoever moors any vessel or vessels of any kind or name whatsoever or any raft or any part of a raft to any buoy, beacon or daymark placed in the waters of Delaware by the authority of the Commandant of the United […]
§ 1503. Enforcement of Laurel River restrictions.
§ 1503. Enforcement of Laurel River restrictions. The Levy Court Commissioners of Sussex County, upon complaint of 1 or more inhabitants of either of the Fourth or Fifth Representative Districts, that any wharf, platforms, landing place, marine railway, pier, pile, abutment or other obstruction of the river has been constructed and is held or kept […]
§ 1106. Anchoring on range line of range lights; penalty.
§ 1106. Anchoring on range line of range lights; penalty. No vessel shall anchor on the range line of any range lights established by the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard in this State. The master of any vessel so anchoring shall be fined not more than $50. 16 Del. Laws, c. 156, § […]
§ 1504. Drainage into Laurel River.
§ 1504. Drainage into Laurel River. Nothing contained in §§ 1502 and 1503 of this title shall be construed to prevent the Town of Laurel from constructing, erecting or providing proper sluices, culverts and waste ways for the drainage of the town or to prevent the present drains or gutters from being emptied into Laurel […]
§ 1107. Lien on vessel causing damage.
§ 1107. Lien on vessel causing damage. The cost of repairing or replacing any buoy, beacon or daymark which has been misplaced, damaged or destroyed by any vessel or raft whatsoever, having been made fast to any such buoy, beacon or daymark, shall, when the same has been legally ascertained, be a lien upon such […]