2018 Vermont Statutes
Title 24 - Municipal and County Government
Chapter 89 - Waterworks
§ 3307 Interference with supply
§ 3307. Interference with supply
If any person diverts the water or part thereof of any of the artesian wells, ponds, springs, streams, aqueducts, water courses, or reservoirs, which shall be taken, used or constructed by such municipal corporation, or shall corrupt the same, or make it impure, or commit any nuisance therein, or shall bathe therein, or within the limits, that may be taken or prescribed by such municipal corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or injure or destroy any artesian well, dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe, reservoir, conduit, hydrant, structure, pump, machinery, or other property held, owned or used by such municipal corporation under the provisions of this chapter, such person shall be liable to such municipal corporation in treble damages therefor, to be recovered in a civil action on this statute, and any such person on conviction of a violation hereunder shall be fined not exceeding $100.00 or committed to the commissioner of corrections not more than six months, or both. (1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 17; amended 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)
