Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 39 — Abandoned Shipwrecks
§ 2101. Findings
Statutory text
The Congress finds that—
States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and
included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987
Pub. L. 100–298 § 2 · 102 Stat. 432
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 2101
(Pub. L. 100–298, § 2, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 432.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–298, § 2, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 432.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that— (a) States have the responsibility for management of a broad range of living and nonliving resources in State waters and submerged lands; and (b) included in the range of resources are certain abandoned shipwrecks, which have been deserted and to which the owner has relinquished ownership rights with no retention.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 100–298, § 1, , 102 Stat. 432, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987’.”