Colombian Commercial Code - Decree 410 of 1971 - Book Five - Navigation - Part One - From the Navigation Aquatics - Title VII - Assistance and Rescue - From: Section Art 1545 Art: 1554

TITLE VII

ASSISTANCE AND RESCUE

Section 1545 .- Every act of assistance or salvage from ships that have had a useful result give rise to equitable remuneration.
If assistance or rescue is obtained only saving lives, the owner or operator of a ship rugged reimburse or damage to the wizard or El Salvador.
If saving lives with assets of navigation, will be the equitable distribution of pay among all participants or saviors.
For purposes of this article shall not be considered as assets of the issuing of personal effects and baggage of the crew and passengers, except the checked baggage of the latter, but the contribution of each bag may not exceed twenty grams of pure gold per kilogram, or five hundred grams of pure gold in total and in any case the value of property saved.
Paragraph .- For purposes of this article, means the relief assistance provided by one ship to another who is in danger of loss and salvage their assistance after the accident occurred.
Section 1546 .- If assistance or rescue was provided despite the express prohibition and reasonable assisted or saved, there shall be no compensation.
Section 1547 .- The tug is not entitled to remuneration for assistance or salvage of the ship object of the trailer or cargo, unless there are exceptional or served may be considered included within the contract for towing.
Section 1548 .- There shall be a compensation even if the ship and the ship assisted assistant belong to the same owner.
Section 1549 .- The amount of remuneration shall be fixed by agreement of the parties and in default by the judge.
Such remuneration shall be distributed among the owners, operators, captain and crew, as appropriate.
Section 1550 .- Everything and rescue assistance contract concluded in time and under the influence of danger, at the request of one party may be modified or even declared invalid where the agreed terms are unfair and, strangely, when the remuneration would result in a sense or other substantially disproportionate to the services provided.
Section 1551 .- Where remuneration is to be appointed by the judge, it will take into account the circumstances, the following rules:

1. The value of property saved, and

2. The success of the efforts of those who have provided assistance or rescue, the danger incurred by the ship assisted by passengers and crew, her cargo, the salvors and ship assistant, time spent, damage and expenses incurred, the risks run by the salvors, as the value of material exposed by them, having regard, where appropriate, the provision about ship appropriate wizard or rescue assistance.

The judge may reduce the compensation, and even delete it if it is found that the audience or saviors, their fault, they needed assistance or rescue, or if incurred misappropriation.

Section 1552 .- Those saved are not required to pay.

Section 1553 .- The captain who, while capable of doing so without serious danger to his ship, crew or passengers, not to assist any ship not the enemy, or any person, even the enemy, who is in danger of perishing, will be punished as provided in regulations or the Criminal Code.

The damage caused in this case the captain's conduct will be solely responsible for this.

Section 1554 .- Actions to exercise rights under this Title shall lapse two years from the termination of assistance or salvage work.