42-393. Penalty for failure of superintendent to deliver water. - Kansas Statutes

42-393

Chapter 42.--IRRIGATION Article 3.--IRRIGATION AND IRRIGATION DISTRICTS

      42-393.   Penalty for failure of superintendent to deliver water.Any superintendent having charge of any ditch, canal, conduit orreservoir who shall willfully neglect or refuse to deliver water as in thisact provided to any person entitled thereto, shall on conviction thereof befined not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars, or beimprisoned in the county jail for not less than one month, or punished byboth such fine and imprisonment; and the proprietors of such works shallmoreover be liable in damages to the person or persons deprived of the useof water to which he or they were entitled, as in this act provided.

      History:   L. 1891, ch. 133, art. 8, § 5; May 20; R.S. 1923, 42-393.