If any person shall, in any manner, permanently obstruct any of the navigable waters, or shall place any obstruction therein and not remove the same within a reasonable time, the person offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both.Codes, 1892, § 1326; 1906, § 1397; Hemingway's 1917, § 1140; 1930, § 1171; 1942, § 2414; Laws, 1898, ch. 89; Laws, 1932, ch. 239.
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