Section 51-31-101 - Penalty for injuring drains

Any person who shall wrongfully or purposely fill up, cut, injure, destroy, or in any manner injure or impair the usefulness of any drain, ditch, or other work constructed under drainage laws shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, may be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00), and shall be liable for double the expense occasioned by repairing the same or removing such obstruction, to be recovered at the suit of the proper drainage district.Codes, 1906, § 1724; Hemingway's 1917, § 4316; 1930, § 4420; 1942, § 4625.