MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 97-15-45. Obstructing waterways; permanently obstructing navigable waters.

If any person shall, in any manner, permanently obstruct any of the navigable waters, or shall place any obstruction therein and not remove the same within a reasonable time, the person offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, or both.

SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 1326; 1906, Sec. 1397; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1140; 1930, Sec. 1171; 1942, Sec. 2414; Laws, 1898, ch. 89; 1932, ch. 239.


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