TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 58

PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

18-5807.  Leaving carcasses near highways, dwellings and streams, and pollution of water used for domestic purposes. Any person who shall knowingly leave the carcass of any animal within a quarter of a mile of any inhabited dwelling, or on, along or within a quarter of a mile of any public highway or stream of water, for a longer period than twenty-four hours, without burying the same, and by such exposure or burial within 200 feet of any stream, canal, ditch, flume, or other irrigation works shall pollute or contaminate, so as to render unfit for domestic use, any natural stream of water, or the water in any canal, ditch, flume, or other irrigation works, used by others for domestic purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined any sum not to exceed $100.00.

History:

[18-5807, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 846.]