2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 46 - Waters and Navigation
Chapter 46-10 - Shipwrecks
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 she shall forfeit one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense, to be recovered in the name of the director, owner, agent, or other person interested, to his or her own use.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 119, § 10; G.L. 1909, ch. 145, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 150, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 115, § 10; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 100; G.L. 1956, § 46-10-23.)
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