2013 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 46 - Waters and Navigation
Chapter 46-10 - Shipwrecks
Section 46-10-27 - Inventory and accounting for unclaimed property – Delivery to treasurer.
§ 46-10-27 Inventory and accounting for unclaimed property – Delivery to treasurer. – If no owner, agent, or other person interested in the property wrecked on Block Island shall appear within one year after it shall have been taken into the custody of the director of the department of environmental management, and establish his or her claim thereto, the director shall present to the general treasurer an inventory of the property (or, if sold, an account of all the sales) with an account of all the moneys paid by him or her for duties on the property and for the expenses of securing and preserving it; and he or she shall make an oath to the truth of the inventory and accounts, and shall pay and deliver to the general treasurer the balance of the accounts, with all the property remaining in the director's hands, to the use of the state.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 119, § 14; G.L. 1909, ch. 145, § 14; G.L. 1923, ch. 150, § 14; G.L. 1938, ch. 115, § 14; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 100; G.L. 1956, § 46-10-27.)
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