Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 39 — Abandoned Shipwrecks
§ 2106. Relationship to other laws
Statutory text
Law of salvage and law of finds
The law of salvage and the law of finds shall not apply to abandoned shipwrecks to which section 2105 of this title applies.
Laws of United States
This chapter shall not change the laws of the United States relating to shipwrecks, other than those to which this chapter applies.
Effective date
This chapter shall not affect any legal proceeding brought prior to .
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 § 7 · 102 Stat. 432
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 2106
(Pub. L. 100–298, § 7, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 434.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–298, § 7, Apr. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 434.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 7. RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER LAWS. (a) Law of Salvage and the Law of Finds.— The law of salvage and the law of finds shall not apply to abandoned shipwrecks to which section 6 of this Act applies. (b) Laws of the United States.— This Act shall not change the laws of the United States relating to shipwrecks, other than those to which this Act applies. (c) Effective Date.— This Act shall not affect any legal proceeding brought prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
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