299Power of receiver to suppress plunder and disorder by force

#### 299 Power of receiver to suppress plunder and disorder by force (1) Whenever a ship is wrecked, stranded, or in distress and any person plunders, creates disorder, or obstructs the preservation of the ship, or of the shipwrecked persons or of the wreck, the receiver may cause that person to be apprehended. (2) The receiver may use force for the suppression of any such plundering, disorder, or obstruction, and may command all persons present to assist him or her in so doing. (3) If any person is killed, maimed, or hurt, by reason of his or her resisting the receiver or any person acting under the receiver’s orders in the execution of his or her duty, neither of the latter shall be liable to any punishment or to pay any damages by reason of the person being so killed, maimed, or hurt.