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640 — Puerto Rico Law | CourtGPT
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  4. Title Twelve - Conservation (§§ 1-16 — 8162)/
  5. Subtitle 4 - Water Law (1903)/
  6. Part II - Riverbeds or Channels, Banks, and Margins, Accretions, Protective Works, and Drainage of Lands/
  7. Chapter 65 - Riverbeds or Channels, Banks, Margins, and Accretions Sub/
  8. Subchapter IV - Accretions, Relictions, and Sediment of Waters § 631 - Lands Temporarily Flooded/
  9. 640
Puerto Rico Legal Code

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Brushwood, branches, and firewood floating on the water which lodge in the channel or on lands of public ownership belong to the first person who may gather the same; those left on lands of private ownership belong to the owners of the respective estates. History —Law of Waters, art. 49.