69-1-108 - Diverting water forbidden. - Tennessee Statutes

69-1-108. Diverting water forbidden.

(a)  No person, upon pretense of having a right to the flow of water through a sluice of a navigable watercourse, on which sluice such person has built a mill, shall divert the water from the main channel into the sluice, so as to obstruct or impede the navigation of the main channel.

(b)  A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

[Code 1858, § 1306; Shan., § 1816; Code 1932, § 3082; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 70-108; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]