TITLE 46
Waters and Navigation
CHAPTER 46-6
Obstructions to Navigation
SECTION 46-6-9
§ 46-6-9 Notice to owner to remove
obstruction Penalty.
(a) If any person resident or being in the United States is known to the
director as the owner of a vessel, or any interest therein, or as having or
exercising any control over the vessel as master, agent, insurer, or otherwise,
or, in case of any other unlawful or unauthorized obstruction, as having alone
or with others built, deposited, or caused the obstruction, or as owning,
maintaining, or using the obstruction in whole or in part, the director shall
give notice in writing to the owner or other person to remove the vessel or
other obstruction within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice, or such
extension of time as may be granted by the director.
(b) It shall be deemed a sufficient notice to all owners and
other persons, if served upon any one or more of them by the director, or by
the director's order, by delivering the notice in hand, or by leaving it at the
usual place of business, residence, or abode, or by duly mailing it to the post
office address of the owner or other person on whom the notice is to be served.
(c) Failure to comply with the notice shall result in a fine
of one hundred dollars ($100) per day until the obstruction is removed.
History of Section.
(G.L. 1896, ch. 118, § 19; G.L. 1909, ch. 144, § 19; G.L. 1923, ch.
149, § 18; G.L. 1938, ch. 112, § 18; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660,
§ 100; G.L. 1956, § 46-6-9; P.L. 1979, ch. 266, § 1.)
