Any person who wilfully fills up, cuts, injures, destroys, or impairs the usefulness of any canal, drain, ditch, watercourse, or other work constructed, repaired, or improved by a district to drain and protect from overflow of water, upon conviction is punishable by confinement in the county jail for not more than two months or by a fine of not more than $1,000.
Tex. Water Code § 56.128
INJURING DRAINAGE CANAL OR DITCH
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Watts v. State (2004)
Most recently applied in Watts v. State (July 2004)
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 510, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff
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