2011 Vermont Code
Title 24 Appendix Municipal Charters
Chapter 283 VILLAGE OF WATERBURY
§ 14 Willful violation of water ordinances; criminal penalties

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APPENDIX

Municipal Charters

PART III

Villages

CHAPTER 283. VILLAGE OF WATERBURY

§ 283-14. Willful violation of water ordinances; criminal penalties

If a person shall willfully, wantonly or maliciously divert the water or part thereof of any of the ponds, springs, streams, aqueducts, water courses, dams or reservoirs, that are now owned, or that may hereafter be acquired, taken, used or constructed by the village, or shall corrupt the same, make it impure, or commit any nuisance there or within the limits that may be taken or prescribed by such village pursuant to the provisions of this charter, or inure or destroy any dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant or other property held, owned or used by said village, or fraudulently or unlawfully take the water from any pipes, mains, laterals or hydrants of the village system of water works, such persons shall be liable criminally for the violation of this ordinance, under the penalty herein provided for violations of a village ordinance, and shall also be liable for three times the damages so done by him to the village or any person, to be recovered in an action of tort founded on

this charter to be maintained by the village or the person so injured.