RS 38:212 - Attempt to cut or destroy levee prohibited No person shall wilfully and maliciously attempt to cut, alter, break, or destroy in any manner any public or private levee, embankment, floodwall, floodgate, or other flood protective device within a levee district or cause to open when officially closed or cause to close when officially opened, any floodgate, stoplog structure, valve or other flood protective device made for protection from overflow. Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor for not more than two years. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 137, §2.
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