§ 46-10-28. Director of the department of environmental management — Salary and expenses. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary, for the salary of the director of the department of environmental management and for his or her expenses. History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 119, § 15; G.L. 1909, ch. […]
§ 46-10-29. Provisions limited to wrecks in New Shoreham. The provisions of §§ 46-10-14 — 46-10-28 shall apply only insofar as the director of the department of environmental management may be performing the duties and exercising the powers of the former commissioner of wrecks in New Shoreham. History of Section.G.L. 1938, ch. 115, § 16; […]
§ 46-10-3. Employment of assistants by commissioner — Disobedience of orders. The commissioner, if he or she thinks it is necessary, may employ persons to assist in preserving the property, may appoint guards to secure the property, and may suppress all tumults and disorders. If any person shall disobey any lawful order of the commissioner […]
§ 46-10-4. Inventory of property — Compensation and reimbursement of commissioner. The commissioner shall, upon finding any wreck or shipwrecked goods, take an inventory of all the property that shall come into his or her possession; and, whenever required by the owner of the property or the owner’s agent or by any insurance company or […]
§ 46-10-5. Arbitration of amount due commissioner — Action at law. If the commissioner and the other party shall not agree on the sum so due the commissioner, the matter in dispute may be submitted to three (3) arbitrators selected from the citizens of the state, for settlement; one of the arbitrators shall be chosen […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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, […]
§ 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 […]
§ 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 […]
