TITLE 42
State Affairs and Government
CHAPTER 42-45.1
Antiquities Act of Rhode Island
SECTION 42-45.1-4
§ 42-45.1-4 Property and investigative
rights of state.
(a) The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations reserves to itself the
exclusive right and privilege of field investigation on sites owned or
controlled by the state, its agencies, departments, or institutions, in order
to protect and preserve archaeological and scientific information, matter, and
objects. All the information and objects derived from state lands shall remain
the property of the state and be utilized for scientific or public educational
purposes.
(b) Furthermore, subject to any local, state, or federal
statute, the title to all bottoms of navigable waters within the state's
jurisdiction in the territorial sea, and the title to any underwater historic
properties lying on or under the bottoms of any other navigable waters of the
state, is hereby declared to be in the state, and the bottoms and underwater
historic properties shall be subject to the exclusive dominion and control of
the state.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1956, § 42-45.1-4; P.L. 1974, ch. 161, § 1.)
