N.Y. Navigation Law § 139-a: Keeping wrecked goods a misdemeanor

§ 139-a. Keeping wrecked goods a misdemeanor. A person who takes away

goods or other property not his own from a stranded vessel, or any goods

or other property cast by the sea upon the land or found in a bay or

creek, or who knowingly becomes possessed of any such goods or other

property, and does not deliver the same, within forty-eight hours

thereafter, to the sheriff or one of the coroners or wreck masters of

the county where the same was found, is guilty of a misdemeanor.