---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 767.17"
title: "32"
number: "767.17"
heading: "Liability for damages."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/767.17"
---

# §767.17. Liability for damages.

- (a) Any person who engages in an activity in violation of [section 1402](/cfr/32/1402.md) or any regulation or permit issued under the Act that disturbs, removes, or injures any U.S. sunken military craft shall pay the United States enforcement costs and damages resulting from such disturbance, removal, or injury.
- (b) Damages referred to in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section may include:
  - (1) The reasonable costs incurred in storage, restoration, care, maintenance, conservation, and curation of any sunken military craft that is disturbed, removed, or injured in violation of [section 1402](/cfr/32/1402.md) or any regulation or permit issued under the Act; and
  - (2) The cost of retrieving, from the site where the sunken military craft was disturbed, removed, or injured, any information of an archaeological, historical, or cultural nature.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 113 note; Pub. L. 108-375, Title XIV, sections 1401 to 1408, Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2094; 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 470.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 52594, Aug. 31, 2015, unless otherwise noted.