§ 5-72-108 — Injuring or destroying bridges, dams, levees, or embankments

Any person who willfully and maliciously cuts down, breaks, injures, or destroys any bridge, mill-dam or other dam, or levee erected or constructed to create hydraulic power or to prevent the overflow of lands or any embankment necessary to support the dam or levee or makes or causes to be made any aperture in the dam or embankment with intent to destroy or injure the dam or embankment is guilty of a violation and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000).

Legislative History

Rev. Stat., ch. 44, div. 4, art. 9, § 4; C. & M. Dig., § 2530; Pope's Dig., § 3180; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-4056; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 57.