§ 130. Powers and duties of sheriff. The sheriff of every county in which any wrecked property shall be found, when no owner or other person entitled to the possession of such property shall appear, shall severally take all necessary measures for saving and securing such property; take possession thereof, in whose hands soever the […]
§ 130-a. Applicability to abandoned historic shipwrecks. This article deals with recovery and salvage of only those wrecks which are not abandoned historic shipwrecks.
§ 131. Sale of wreck. If the property so saved shall be perishable, so as to render the sale thereof expedient, the officer, in whose custody the same shall be, shall apply to the county court of the county, or the city court of the city, where such property may be, by a verified petition […]
§ 132. Delivery of wreck or proceeds to claimant. If, within a year after such wrecked property shall have been found and saved, any person shall claim the same or the proceeds thereof, as owner or consignee, or the agent of the owner or consignee, and shall establish his claim by evidence, such court shall […]
§ 133. Claimant’s undertaking. No such order shall, however, be made unless the claimant shall deliver to such court an undertaking with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the court, such claimant or his representative, within two years after the date of the undertaking, by any person, establishing his title as owner […]
§ 134. When owner may sue. The rejection by the court of any claim for wrecked property shall not preclude the claimant from maintaining an action for the recovery of such property or its proceeds against the officer in whose hands the same shall be; but if the plaintiff in any such action shall prevail, […]
§ 135. Claim for salvage. Every officer to whom any order duly made, for the delivery of the wrecked property, or its proceeds, shall be directed, shall present to the claimant exhibiting such order a written statement of the claims for salvage and expenses on such property and proceeds. If the claimant shall refuse to […]
§ 136. Detention of wreck. All sheriffs, and all persons employed by them, and all other persons aiding and assisting in the recovery and preservation of wrecked property, shall be entitled to a reasonable allowance as salvage for their services, and to all expenses incurred by them in the performance of such services, out of […]
§ 137. Appointment of appraisers. If the amount of salvage and expenses on property saved shall not be adjusted by agreement of the parties, the owner or consignee of such property, or the master or supercargo, having charge thereof at the time the same was wrecked, or a claimant having an order for its delivery, […]
§ 138. Sale and disposition of property. 1. If within a year after wrecked property shall have been saved, no person shall have appeared to claim the same, or if the salvage and expenses on such property shall not have been paid within three months after the same shall have been adjusted, or an action […]
§ 139. Publication of notice of wrecked property. Every sheriff, into whose possession any wrecked property shall come, shall immediately thereafter publish a notice directed to all parties interested, for at least four weeks in succession, in one or more of the newspapers published in the county where the property shall have been saved. Every […]
§ 139-a. Keeping wrecked goods a misdemeanor. A person who takes away goods or other property not his own from a stranded vessel, or any goods or other property cast by the sea upon the land or found in a bay or creek, or who knowingly becomes possessed of any such goods or other property, […]
§ 139-b. Defacing marks upon wrecked property. A person who defaces or obliterates the marks upon wrecked property, or in any manner disguises the appearance thereof, with intent to prevent the owner from discovering its identity, or who destroys or suppresses any invoice, bill of lading or other document tending to show the ownership thereof, […]
§ 139-c. Officer unlawfully detaining wrecked property. An officer, whose duties pertain in any way to wrecked property, who, without authority of law, detains such property or proceeds thereof, after the salvage and expenses chargeable thereon have been paid or offered to him, or who is guilty of any fraud in the discharge of such […]
