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SECTION 11-44-8

   § 11-44-8  Injury to or interference withwater-control structures. – Every person who shall willfully and maliciously break down, injure, remove, ordestroy any dam, reservoir, canal, or trench, or any gate, flume, flash-board,or other appurtenance, or any of the wheels, mill-gear, or machinery of awater-mill, or willfully or wantonly, without color of right, draw off thewater contained in a millpond, reservoir, canal, or trench, or willfully andmaliciously, without color of right, obstruct the water of a mill-pond,reservoir, canal, or trench from flowing out of it, shall be imprisoned notexceeding five (5) years or be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars($2,000).

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-11 > Chapter-11-44 > 11-44-8

SECTION 11-44-8

   § 11-44-8  Injury to or interference withwater-control structures. – Every person who shall willfully and maliciously break down, injure, remove, ordestroy any dam, reservoir, canal, or trench, or any gate, flume, flash-board,or other appurtenance, or any of the wheels, mill-gear, or machinery of awater-mill, or willfully or wantonly, without color of right, draw off thewater contained in a millpond, reservoir, canal, or trench, or willfully andmaliciously, without color of right, obstruct the water of a mill-pond,reservoir, canal, or trench from flowing out of it, shall be imprisoned notexceeding five (5) years or be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars($2,000).


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-11 > Chapter-11-44 > 11-44-8

SECTION 11-44-8

   § 11-44-8  Injury to or interference withwater-control structures. – Every person who shall willfully and maliciously break down, injure, remove, ordestroy any dam, reservoir, canal, or trench, or any gate, flume, flash-board,or other appurtenance, or any of the wheels, mill-gear, or machinery of awater-mill, or willfully or wantonly, without color of right, draw off thewater contained in a millpond, reservoir, canal, or trench, or willfully andmaliciously, without color of right, obstruct the water of a mill-pond,reservoir, canal, or trench from flowing out of it, shall be imprisoned notexceeding five (5) years or be fined not exceeding two thousand dollars($2,000).