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2025 California Code
Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC
DIVISION 2 - NAVIGATION
CHAPTER 3 - Losses
ARTICLE 2 - Liability
Section 290.
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CA Harb & Nav Code § 290 (2025)
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290. If a collision is occasioned by failure to observe any rule of Article 1 of this chapter, the owner of the vessel by which the rule is infringed can not recover compensation for damages sustained by the vessel unless the circumstances of the case made a departure from the rule necessary.
(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)
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