§ 46-6-11 - Liability for cost of removing obstruction – Action for recovery.
SECTION 46-6-11
§ 46-6-11 Liability for cost of removingobstruction – Action for recovery. – The owner of any vessel or of an interest in any vessel willfully ormaliciously wrecked, sunken, or abandoned and removed as provided in §46-6-10, whether owning, at the time the vessel first became an obstruction, orat any subsequent time before the removal is completed, and all persons havingor exercising any control over the vessel or any part thereof, and, in the caseof any other obstruction so removed, the person or persons originally building,depositing, or causing the obstruction, or at the time of the removal, or atany time prior thereto, owning, maintaining, or using the obstruction in wholeor in part, shall be liable to pay the cost and expenses of the removal, or torepay the cost when paid out of the treasury as aforesaid; and the cost may berecovered in a civil action brought by the director in the name of the stateagainst the owners or other persons, or against any one or more of them. Theattorney general shall conduct and commence the suits. All moneys so repaid orrecovered shall be paid into the treasury of the state. Any person who pays ona judgment or otherwise more than his or her proportional part of the costs andexpenses aforesaid, shall have a claim for contribution against all otherparties liable therefor according to their respective interests.