(1) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022. ] Every person who willfully and without authority opens, closes, changes, or interferes with any headgate of any ditch, or any water box or measuring device of any ditch for the receiving or delivery of water, after the headgate of the ditch has been adjusted by and is in the control of the division engineer, or after such water box or measuring device has been adopted by the ditch officer in charge commits a class 2 misdemeanor.
Source: L. 1879: p. 108, § 44. G.S. § 1755. L. 01: p. 196, § 1. R.S. 08: § 3497. C.L. § 1931. CSA: C. 90, § 348. CRS 53: § 147-16-3. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-16-3. L. 2021: (1) amended, (SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3292, § 679, effective March 1, 2022.
Editor's note: Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
Cross references: For the appointments and functions of water division engineers, see § 37-92-202.