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2016 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 4 - MASTERS, CREWS AND CARGOES
CHAPTER 2 - Ship Masters and Cargoes
Section 815.

CA Harb & Nav Code § 815 (2016) What's This?

815. When a vessel, whether foreign or domestic, is seriously damaged, or the voyage is otherwise broken up beyond the possibility of pursuing it, the master, in case of necessity, may sell the vessel without instructions from the owners, unless by the earliest use of ordinary means of communication he can inform the owners and await their instructions.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

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