Title 46, Title 46 and Navigation

The director shall retain under his or her own control and management and in his or her own possession, for use by the public for the transient needs and purposes of such vessels as shall from time to time come to the port of Providence, a portion of the property, wharves, piers,…

(a) The director shall establish and enforce such proper rules and regulations for the government and proper care of all the property acquired under this chapter, whether improved or unimproved, as the director shall deem best, and shall furnish a copy of the rules and regulation…

All moneys paid for the wharfage, cranage, or dockage of vessels, all rents and other moneys paid to the state, from whatever source, on account of the use of any of the property, improved or unimproved, acquired in the name of and on behalf of the state by the department, shall …

When any of the wharves, piers, bulkheads, slips, docks, basins, and other property, or any part thereof built, constructed, improved, or acquired by the department, shall have been completed and shall be ready for use, the director may, in his or her discretion, open the wharves…

The director of the department of environmental management, when he or she shall deem any land or interests in land acquired or taken under the provisions of this chapter to be no longer required for the purposes of this chapter, may: (1) With the consent of the person or persons…

(a) The director of the department of environmental management shall expend such funds as are annually appropriated in purchasing, installing, and maintaining yacht and boat moorings in such harbors in Rhode Island waters as he or she may deem advisable and suitable. (b) The sum …

Whenever the department of environmental management has decided to take by condemnation such land or any estate or interest in land, and the phrase “such land” as used in §§ 46-5-2 — 46-5-8 shall be deemed to describe and apply to whatever land or estate or interest in land is co…

Upon the filing of the description, plat, and statement, the title to and immediate right of possession of such land shall vest in the state of Rhode Island in fee simple unless a lesser estate or interest therein is specified in the statement as taken by the department of enviro…

After the filing of the description, plat, and statement, notice of the taking of such land shall be served upon the owner of or persons having an estate and interest in such land by the sheriff or any deputy sheriff for the county in which such land is situated by leaving a true…

If any party shall agree with the department of environmental management to the price for his or her estate or interest in any such land, that price shall be paid to him or her forthwith out of the funds appropriated and available thereof.

Any owner or person who cannot agree with the department of environmental management to the price for his or her estate or interest in any such land may, within six (6) months after personal notice of the taking, or if he or she has had no personal notice, within one year from th…

The court may, in its discretion, permit the filing of the petition subsequent to one year from the filing of the description, plat, and statement, unless the petitioner therein has had actual notice of the taking of the land in which the petitioner claims an interest in season t…

If any infant or person not capable by law to act in his or her own behalf by the owner of any estate or interest in any land so taken, the court, upon the filing therein of a petition by or in behalf of the infant or other person, may appoint a guardian ad litem for the infant o…

The director of the department of environmental management may, after the acquirement by the state of any property, tide-flowed lands, flats, terms, easements, privileges, littoral, and riparian rights of any owner or owners, either by purchase or by process of law, proceed to fi…