California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Sections 510-527
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 510
The sheriff of each county shall give all possible aid and assistance to vessels stranded on its coast, and to the persons on board. He...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 511
Wrecked property may be kept or reclaimed at the time of the wreck by the owner, consignee, or other person entitled to possession; but if...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 512
The sheriff of any county in which any wrecked property is found, when no person entitled to possession appears, shall take possession of it in...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 513
If wrecked property is in a perishable state, the sheriff shall apply to the judge of the superior court, upon a verified petition, for an...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 514
If, within 90 days after wrecked property is found, any person claims the property, or its proceeds, and establishes his or her claim by evidence...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 515
Before making the order, the judge shall require from the claimant a bond to the people to be approved by the judge and filed with...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 516
If the bond becomes forfeited, the judge of the superior court, upon the application, supported by proof of the person entitled to its benefit shall...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 517
The rejection by the judge of any claim shall not preclude the claimant from maintaining an action against the officer for the recovery of the...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 518
If, within 60 days after saving wrecked property, no claimant of the property appears, or, if within 60 days after a claim, the salvage and...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 519
Public notice of every sale of wrecked property under the provisions of this article shall be published by the officer making the sale for at...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 520
Every sheriff into whose possession any wrecked property comes, shall forthwith cause to be published for at least two weeks in succession, in one or...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 521
The expense of publishing notices under the provisions of this article is a charge upon the property or proceeds to which it relates. ...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 522
(a) Any hulk, derelict, wreck, or parts of any ship, vessel, or other watercraft sunk, beached, or allowed to remain in an unseaworthy or dilapidated...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 523
(a) Any peace officer, as described in Section 663, any employee or officer of the State Lands Commission designated by the State Lands Commission, or...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 524
(a) Any peace officer, as described in Section 663, may store any vessel removed from private property when the vessel is found on, or attached...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 525
(a) Except for urgent and immediate concern for the safety of those aboard a vessel, no person shall abandon a vessel upon a public waterway...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 525.5
(a) On or before January 1, 2005, the department shall submit recommendations to the Legislature on strategies to prevent recreational vessels from being abandoned and...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 526
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any wrecked property that is an unseaworthy derelict or hulk, or abandoned property as described in Section 522,...
- California Laws: Harbors and Navigation Code Section 527
It is the intent of the Legislature that a sum of not more than one million dollars ($1,000,000) be appropriated from the Harbors and Watercraft...
