18-4304 — WRONGFUL DIVERSION OF WATER


                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 43
                               IRRIGATION WORKS
    18-4304.  WRONGFUL DIVERSION OF WATER. Any person who without the consent
of the water master of the district, diverts any water from a ditch or channel
where it has been placed, or caused or left to run by the water master or his
deputies, or who shuts or opens any ditch, gate or dam, or in any way impedes
or increases the flow of water in any stream or ditch diverting water from a
stream, while the same is under the charge of a water master, or who cuts away
any embankment of a stream, whereby the water of such stream is diverted, or
breaks, injures, or removes any gate, flume or other device used for the
equitable distribution of the water of such stream by the water master, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor.