Title 46, Title 46 and Navigation

The superior court for Providence County shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this chapter and any rule, regulation, or order issued pursuant thereto. Proceedings for enforcement may be instituted and prosecuted in the name of the chairperson of the commission, an…

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to vessels navigating under a certificate of enrollment under the control of a federally licensed pilot or to vessels otherwise exempt by the laws of the United States, or to vessels measuring less than one thousand (1,000) gross ton…

A pilot whose license has been revoked or suspended shall surrender his or her license to the commission who shall retain it until the period of his or her suspension shall expire.

The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter; and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment thereof or so much thereof as may be nec…

The director of the department of environmental management shall provide the commission with quarters for its activities and shall furnish the commission with secretarial and other personnel as shall be required by the commission.

If any provision of this chapter or of any rule, regulation, or determination made thereunder, or the application thereof to any person, agency, or circumstances, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of the chapter, rule, regulation, or determinatio…

The director of the department of environmental management shall have the authority to inspect all vessels on behalf of the pilotage commission for the purpose of enforcing this chapter. The director shall charge a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each vessel so inspected. The…

It shall be unlawful for any person not licensed as a pilot under this chapter to pilot or offer to pilot a vessel not exempt from the provisions of this chapter. It shall likewise be unlawful for any person on board a tug or towboat to tow a vessel not exempt from the provisions…

It shall be unlawful for any pilot to pilot any vessel, including a tug, without having in his or her possession on the vessel being piloted current charts of all waters through which the vessel is being piloted. Likewise, it shall be unlawful for any tug to tow any barge or othe…

(a) There is hereby created a state pilotage commission within the department of environmental management independent of the department and the director, consisting of four (4) members, two (2) of whom shall be appointed by the governor. Of the members appointed by the governor, …

The commission shall perform the duties and have the powers set forth in this section as well as other duties and powers as may be provided by law: (1) To make, establish, and enforce rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, which shall be binding and effectual upon all …

Every person who shall apply for an original license to act as a pilot in the waters of this state north of a line drawn from Point Judith to Sakonnet Point shall be a citizen or legal resident of the United States; shall possess a master’s license of unlimited tonnage, (any ocea…

Every vessel, boat, or launch of any draft, size, or tonnage, used for the purpose of transporting from the Rhode Island shoreline to a vessel in Narragansett Bay south of the Newport and Jamestown Bridges or, in Rhode Island Sound and in Block Island Sound, a pilot or any person…

In the event of a national or domestic emergency, the commission may issue temporary pilot licenses, to persons not meeting the qualifications in § 46-9-7, to serve as long as the emergency shall exist or until such time as the pilots so licensed can be replaced by persons meetin…

The town council of every town, the territorial limits of which extend to the seashore, except the town of New Shoreham, shall annually appoint a commissioner of wrecks and shipwrecked goods, with power to appoint one or more deputies. Every commissioner of wrecks and shipwrecked…

If the shipwrecked goods found be of a perishable nature or be much reduced in value by keeping, and if no owner or agent or other person interested appear to take the goods, the commissioner shall immediately advertise the goods in one of the daily newspapers published in the ci…

If no owner or agent or other person interested in the shipwrecked property shall appear and establish his or her claim within one year after it shall have been taken into the custody of the commissioner, the commissioner shall render to the town treasurer of the town an inventor…

The town council may grant the commissioner such compensation for his or her services and expenses as shall be just, to be ascertained, in case of disagreement between the commissioner and town council, in the same manner as provided in § 46-10-5 for the adjustment of the like qu…

If the commissioner shall, for the space for sixty (60) days after the expiration of the year limited for the commissioner’s accounting to the town treasurer in § 46-10-11, neglect to present his or her inventory and account before mentioned and to pay and deliver the balance due…

The director of the department of environmental management shall give bond to the general treasurer for the faithful discharge of the director’s duty under this chapter with sufficient sureties to the acceptance of the general treasurer, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,00…

The director of the department of environmental management shall, immediately on receiving information of any shipwreck or of the finding of any shipwrecked goods or property of any kind in value to the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) or more upon the shore of Block Island, rep…

The director of the department of environmental management, upon taking charge of unclaimed property, may employ as many persons as the director shall think necessary to assist in preserving the property, and he or she may appoint guards to secure the property and may suppress al…

In case the director of the department of environmental management shall be absent from the island or shall be unable, from sickness or other cause, to attend to the duties of his or her office, the director may appoint some other person in the town of New Shoreham to act in his …

Every person who shall disobey any lawful order of the director of the department of environmental management, given in discharging the duties of the director’s office, shall forfeit for every such offense twenty dollars ($20.00), to be recovered in an action in the name of the d…

The director of the department of environmental management shall on every such occasion take an inventory of all the property that shall come into the director’s possession; and whenever required by the owner of the property or the owner’s agent or by any insurance company or und…

The commissioner shall, immediately on receiving information of any shipwreck within his or her jurisdiction or of the finding of any shipwrecked goods or property of any kind in value to the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) or more upon the shore, repair to the place where the …

If the director of the department of environmental management and the other party shall not agree on the sum so due the director, the case may be submitted to three (3) arbitrators for settlement; one of the arbitrators shall be chosen by the director, one by the other party, and…

If the parties shall not agree to submit the case to arbitrators, or if the case is submitted and either party is dissatisfied with the decision of the arbitrators, then the case may be decided in a civil action to be commenced and prosecuted as the circumstances may require, unl…

No owner or other person interested in any property wrecked on Block Island shall be held to pay to any person other than the director of the department of environmental management any charge for services or expenses in taking or securing the property, unless it be for property t…

If any person shall, after the arrival of the director of the department of environmental management, take, detain, or intermeddle with any property shipwrecked or found as aforesaid, except under the direction of the director or of the owner or agent or other person interested, …

The director of the department of environmental management, as soon as may be after the director’s arrival at the place where any wreck or goods shall be found, shall publish the particulars of the shipwreck and of the goods found, with such other material facts as the director s…

The director of the department of environmental management may dispose of so much of the property by public auction, within thirty (30) days after taking the property into his or her custody, as shall be sufficient to pay all duties thereon which he or she shall have paid, or for…

Whenever the property wrecked on Block Island may be much reduced in value by keeping it for one year, and no owner, agent or other person interested therein shall appear to claim it within sixty (60) days after it shall have been taken into the custody of the director of the dep…

If no owner, agent, or other person interested in the property wrecked on Block Island shall appear within one year after it shall have been taken into the custody of the director of the department of environmental management, and establish his or her claim thereto, the director …

The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sum as it may deem necessary, for the salary of the director of the department of environmental management and for his or her expenses.

The provisions of §§ 46-10-14 — 46-10-28 shall apply only insofar as the director of the department of environmental management may be performing the duties and exercising the powers of the former commissioner of wrecks in New Shoreham.

The commissioner, if he or she thinks it is necessary, may employ persons to assist in preserving the property, may appoint guards to secure the property, and may suppress all tumults and disorders. If any person shall disobey any lawful order of the commissioner given in dischar…

The commissioner shall, upon finding any wreck or shipwrecked goods, take an inventory of all the property that shall come into his or her possession; and, whenever required by the owner of the property or the owner’s agent or by any insurance company or underwriter or other pers…

If the commissioner and the other party shall not agree on the sum so due the commissioner, the matter in dispute may be submitted to three (3) arbitrators selected from the citizens of the state, for settlement; one of the arbitrators shall be chosen by the commissioner, one by …

No owner or other person interested in any shipwrecked goods shall be held to pay to any person, other than the commissioner, any charge for services or expenses in taking or securing the property, unless it be for property taken or secured before the arrival of the commissioner,…

Every person who shall after the arrival of the commissioner take, detain, or intermeddle with any property shipwrecked or found as aforesaid, except under the direction of the commissioner or of the owner, agent, or other person interested, provided, that the owner, agent, or ot…

The commissioner, as soon as may be after a wreck or shipwrecked goods shall be found, shall publish the particulars of the shipwreck or goods found, with any other material facts that he or she shall ascertain, in some daily newspaper published in the city of Providence, in orde…

The commissioner may, within thirty (30) days after taking into his or her custody the property so found, sell at public auction so much thereof as shall be sufficient to pay all duties thereon, which he or she shall have paid or for which he or she shall become liable to the cus…

Sections 46-1-1, 46-1-2, 46-2-2, 46-2-4, 46-6-1, 46-6-2 and 46-6-6 shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the designation of the coastal resources management council as the lead state agency for dredging as provided for in § 46-23-1(e).

The inhabitants of the town of Barrington may, at all times between the rising and setting of the sun, take up and carry off from the public beach in Barrington, extending west from Hyde’s Hole to land now or formerly of the heirs of John Watson, with their vehicles, not exceedin…

No person other than an inhabitant of the town of Barrington shall be permitted to take or carry off from the beach any seaweed in any manner whatsoever.