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DIVISION 3. VESSELS 399-786›CHAPTER 2. Civil Actions and Liens 450-509›ARTICLE 3. Actions Against Vessels 490-497

§ 494

California Harbors and Navigation Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The cost of repairing or replacing any buoy or beacon which is maintained by authority of the United States Bureau of Lighthouses which may be misplaced, damaged, or destroyed by any vessel being made fast to it, is, when the cost is legally ascertained, a lien upon the vessel, and is recoverable against it and its owner.

(Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.)

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