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Harbors and Navigation Code - HNC

DIVISION 3. VESSELS [399 - 786]

  ( Division 3 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368. )
  

CHAPTER 3. Wrecks and Salvage [510 - 571]

  ( Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368. )
  

ARTICLE 1. Wrecks and Wrecked Property [510 - 527]
  ( Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368. )

  
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 any person has a just claim for salvage and necessary expenses incurred in saving it, the claim shall be paid before the property can be reclaimed.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)