TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 43

IRRIGATION WORKS

18-4306.  Injuries to ditches, canals, laterals, drains and appurtenances. Any person or persons, who shall willfully cut, break, damage, or in any way interfere with any ditch, canal, lateral, drain, headgate, or any other works in or appurtenant thereto, the property of another person, irrigation district, drainage district, canal company, corporation, or association of persons, and whereby water is conducted to any place for beneficial use or purposes, and when said canal, headgate, ditch, lateral, drain, dam, or appurtenance is being used or is to be used for said conduct or drainage of water, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History:

[18-4306, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 934; am. 2002, ch. 115, sec. 2, p. 327.]