New York Navigation Law Article 10 - WRECKS

• 130 - Powers and Duties of Sheriff.
  The sheriff of every county in which any wrecked property shall be found, when no owner or other person entitled to the possession of such...
• 130-a - Applicability to Abandoned Historic Shipwrecks.
  This article deals with recovery and salvage of only those wrecks which are not abandoned historic shipwrecks.
• 131 - Sale of Wreck.
  If the property so saved shall be perishable, so as to render the sale thereof expedient, the officer, in whose custody the same shall be,...
• 132 - Delivery of Wreck or Proceeds to Claimant.
  If, within a year after such wrecked property shall have been found and saved, any person shall claim the same or the proceeds thereof, as...
• 133 - Claimant's Undertaking.
  No such order shall, however, be made unless the claimant shall deliver to such court an undertaking with one or more sufficient sureties to be...
• 134 - When Owner May Sue.
  The rejection by the court of any claim for wrecked property shall not preclude the claimant from maintaining an action for the recovery of such...
• 135 - Claim for Salvage.
  Every officer to whom any order duly made, for the delivery of the wrecked property, or its proceeds, shall be directed, shall present to the...
• 136 - Detention of Wreck.
  All sheriffs, and all persons employed by them, and all other persons aiding and assisting in the recovery and preservation of wrecked property, shall be...
• 137 - Appointment of Appraisers.
  If the amount of salvage and expenses on property saved shall not be adjusted by agreement of the parties, the owner or consignee of such...
• 138 - Sale and Disposition of Property.
  1. If within a year after wrecked property shall have been saved, no person shall have appeared to claim the same, or if the salvage...
• 139 - Publication of Notice of Wrecked Property.
  Every sheriff, into whose possession any wrecked property shall come, shall immediately thereafter publish a notice directed to all parties interested, for at least four...
• 139-a - Keeping Wrecked Goods a Misdemeanor.
  A person who takes away goods or other property not his own from a stranded vessel, or any goods or other property cast by the...
• 139-b - Defacing Marks Upon Wrecked Property.
  A person who defaces or obliterates the marks upon wrecked property, or in any manner disguises the appearance thereof, with intent to prevent the owner...
• 139-c - Officer Unlawfully Detaining Wrecked Property.
  An officer, whose duties pertain in any way to wrecked property, who, without authority of law, detains such property or proceeds thereof, after the salvage...

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