US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 70
                       TRESPASS AND MALICIOUS INJURIES
                                 TO PROPERTY
    18-7019.  INJURING DAMS, CANALS, AND OTHER STRUCTURES -- PENALTY. Every
person who wilfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures or destroys any
bridge, dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, levee, embankment, reservoir or other
structure erected to create hydraulic power, or to drain or reclaim any swamp
and overflowed or marsh land, or to conduct water for mining, manufacturing,
reclamation or agricultural purposes, or any embankment necessary to the same,
or either of them; or wilfully or maliciously makes, or causes to be made, any
aperture in such dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, reservoir, embankment, levee or
structure, with intent to injure or destroy the same, is punishable by a fine
not exceeding $1,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding two
years, or by both.