51-29-101 - Contractors may pass over private lands. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 51-29-101. Contractors may pass over private lands.
 

The commissioners, engineers, and contractors, with their teams and outfits engaged in drainage work, shall have the right to pass over all the lands of others to and from the district, being liable to the owner for any damage done thereto. Any owner who shall prevent such passage over his lands shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined one hundred dollars for each day that he prevents such passage. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 4479; 1930, § 4500; 1942, § 4726; Laws, 1912, ch. 195.