Section 46-10-23. – Penalty for unauthorized intermeddling with property.
§ 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 […]
Section 46-10-24. – Publication of notice of wreck found on Block Island.
§ 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 […]
Section 46-10-25. – Sale of property to pay duties — Perishable property.
§ 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 […]
Section 46-10-16. – Employment of assistants by director.
§ 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 […]
Section 46-10-6. – Compensation due persons other than commissioner — Appeal.
§ 46-10-6. Compensation due persons other than commissioner — Appeal. No owner or other person interested in any shipwrecked goods shall be held to pay to any person, other than the commissioner, any charge for services or expenses in taking or securing the property, unless it be for property taken or secured before the arrival […]
Section 46-10-7. – Penalty for unauthorized intermeddling with property.
§ 46-10-7. Penalty for unauthorized intermeddling with property. Every person who shall after the arrival of the commissioner take, detain, or intermeddle with any property shipwrecked or found as aforesaid, except under the direction of the commissioner or of the owner, agent, or other person interested, provided, that the owner, agent, or other person interested, […]
Section 46-10-8. – Publication of notice of finding of wreck.
§ 46-10-8. Publication of notice of finding of wreck. The commissioner, as soon as may be after a wreck or shipwrecked goods shall be found, shall publish the particulars of the shipwreck or goods found, with any other material facts that he or she shall ascertain, in some daily newspaper published in the city of […]
Section 46-10-9. – Sale of property to pay duties.
§ 46-10-9. Sale of property to pay duties. The commissioner may, within thirty (30) days after taking into his or her custody the property so found, sell at public auction so much thereof as shall be sufficient to pay all duties thereon, which he or she shall have paid or for which he or she […]
Section 46-10-10. – Sale of perishable goods or goods subject to reduction in value — Accounting.
§ 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 […]
Section 46-10-11. – Inventory and accounting for unclaimed property — Delivery to town.
§ 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 […]