§ 46-10-1. Appointment of town commissioners of wrecks and shipwrecked goods — Bond. The town council of every town, the territorial limits of which extend to the seashore, except the town of New Shoreham, shall annually appoint a commissioner of wrecks and shipwrecked goods, with power to appoint one or more deputies. Every commissioner of […]
§ 46-10-10. Sale of perishable goods or goods subject to reduction in value — Accounting. If the shipwrecked goods found be of a perishable nature or be much reduced in value by keeping, and if no owner or agent or other person interested appear to take the goods, the commissioner shall immediately advertise the goods […]
§ 46-10-11. Inventory and accounting for unclaimed property — Delivery to town. If no owner or agent or other person interested in the shipwrecked property shall appear and establish his or her claim within one year after it shall have been taken into the custody of the commissioner, the commissioner shall render to the town […]
§ 46-10-12. Compensation of commissioner for property delivered to town. The town council may grant the commissioner such compensation for his or her services and expenses as shall be just, to be ascertained, in case of disagreement between the commissioner and town council, in the same manner as provided in § 46-10-5 for the adjustment […]
§ 46-10-13. Suit by town for unclaimed property. If the commissioner shall, for the space for sixty (60) days after the expiration of the year limited for the commissioner’s accounting to the town treasurer in § 46-10-11, neglect to present his or her inventory and account before mentioned and to pay and deliver the balance […]
§ 46-10-14. Bond of director. The director of the department of environmental management shall give bond to the general treasurer for the faithful discharge of the director’s duty under this chapter with sufficient sureties to the acceptance of the general treasurer, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000); and any person, having a claim […]
§ 46-10-15. Taking charge of property wrecked on Block Island. The director of the department of environmental management shall, immediately on receiving information of any shipwreck or of the finding of any shipwrecked goods or property of any kind in value to the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) or more upon the shore of Block […]
§ 46-10-16. Employment of assistants by director. The director of the department of environmental management, upon taking charge of unclaimed property, may employ as many persons as the director shall think necessary to assist in preserving the property, and he or she may appoint guards to secure the property and may suppress all tumults and […]
§ 46-10-17. Appointment of agent for director. In case the director of the department of environmental management shall be absent from the island or shall be unable, from sickness or other cause, to attend to the duties of his or her office, the director may appoint some other person in the town of New Shoreham […]
§ 46-10-18. Penalty for disobedience of order of director. Every person who shall disobey any lawful order of the director of the department of environmental management, given in discharging the duties of the director’s office, shall forfeit for every such offense twenty dollars ($20.00), to be recovered in an action in the name of the […]
§ 46-10-19. Inventory of property wrecked on Block Island — Reimbursement of director. The director of the department of environmental management shall on every such occasion take an inventory of all the property that shall come into the director’s possession; and whenever required by the owner of the property or the owner’s agent or by […]
§ 46-10-2. Commissioner to take charge of wrecked property. The commissioner shall, immediately on receiving information of any shipwreck within his or her jurisdiction or of the finding of any shipwrecked goods or property of any kind in value to the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) or more upon the shore, repair to the place […]
§ 46-10-20. Arbitration of amounts due director. If the director of the department of environmental management and the other party shall not agree on the sum so due the director, the case may be submitted to three (3) arbitrators for settlement; one of the arbitrators shall be chosen by the director, one by the other […]
§ 46-10-21. Action for amounts due director. If the parties shall not agree to submit the case to arbitrators, or if the case is submitted and either party is dissatisfied with the decision of the arbitrators, then the case may be decided in a civil action to be commenced and prosecuted as the circumstances may […]
§ 46-10-22. Amounts due parties other than director — Appeal. No owner or other person interested in any property wrecked on Block Island shall be held to pay to any person other than the director of the department of environmental management any charge for services or expenses in taking or securing the property, unless it […]
§ 46-10-23. Penalty for unauthorized intermeddling with property. If any person shall, after the arrival of the director of the department of environmental management, take, detain, or intermeddle with any property shipwrecked or found as aforesaid, except under the direction of the director or of the owner or agent or other person interested, he or […]
§ 46-10-24. Publication of notice of wreck found on Block Island. The director of the department of environmental management, as soon as may be after the director’s arrival at the place where any wreck or goods shall be found, shall publish the particulars of the shipwreck and of the goods found, with such other material […]
§ 46-10-25. Sale of property to pay duties — Perishable property. The director of the department of environmental management may dispose of so much of the property by public auction, within thirty (30) days after taking the property into his or her custody, as shall be sufficient to pay all duties thereon which he or […]
§ 46-10-26. Sale of property subject to reduction in value. Whenever the property wrecked on Block Island may be much reduced in value by keeping it for one year, and no owner, agent or other person interested therein shall appear to claim it within sixty (60) days after it shall have been taken into the […]
§ 46-10-27. Inventory and accounting for unclaimed property — Delivery to treasurer. If no owner, agent, or other person interested in the property wrecked on Block Island shall appear within one year after it shall have been taken into the custody of the director of the department of environmental management, and establish his or her […]
