97-35-21 - Lighthouse property and navigation lights; destroying, extinguishing, etc. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 97-35-21. Lighthouse property and navigation lights; destroying, extinguishing, etc.
 

Every person who shall wilfully break into, deface or destroy any lighthouse station, post, platform, steps, lamp or other structure pertaining to such lighthouse station, or shall extinguish any light erected by the United States upon or along the navigable waters of this state to aid in the navigation thereof, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1906, § 1395; Hemingway's 1917, § 1138; 1930, § 1169; 1942, § 2412; Laws,  1894, ch. 41.