§ 11-44-8 - Injury to or interference with water-control structures. - Rhode Island Statutes

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).