§ 35-10-401 — Obstructing or injuring highways, streets, bridges or navigable streams generally; offensive manufactures or businesses; pollution of waters

(a) If any person, company or corporation shall obstruct
or injure or cause or procure to be obstructed or injured, any
public road or highway, or common street or alley of any town or
village, or any public bridge or causeway, or public river or
stream, declared navigable by law, or shall continue such
obstruction, so as to render the same inconvenient or dangerous
to pass, or shall erect or establish any offensive trade, or
manufacture or business, or continue the same after it has been
erected or established, or shall in anywise pollute or obstruct
any watercourse, lake, pond, marsh or common sewer, or continue
such obstruction or pollution, so as to render the same
unwholesome or offensive to the county, city, town or
neighborhood thereabouts; every person, company or corporation
so offending, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined not
exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00); and every such nuisance
may, by order of the district court before whom the conviction
may take place, be removed and abated by the sheriff of the
proper county.
(b) Whoever, in any manner, wrongfully obstructs any
public highway, or injures any bridge, culvert, or embankment,
or injures any material used in the construction of any such
road, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred
dollars ($100.00), to which may be added imprisonment in the
county jail not more than three (3) months.