New York Laws
Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds
324 - Penalty of Conversion of Floating Lumber.

§ 324. Penalty of conversion of floating lumber. Whoever shall convert
to his own use, without the consent of the owner thereof, any logs,
timber, boards or plank, floating in any of the waters of this state, or
lying on the banks or shores of any such waters, or on any island where
the same may have drifted, shall, for every offense, forfeit to the
owner of such logs, or other lumber, three times the value thereof.
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to extend to that
kind of lumber called driftwood.

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