Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways
§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging

If any person shall willfully cut, break down, remove, destroy or damage any cattle gap or any fence or part thereof erected by any board of levee commissioners or the agents or employees of said board of levee commissioners for the purpose of enclosing any levee right-of-way under the control of said board of levee commissioners or who shall break down, remove or destroy any gate in any such fence, or shall willfully leave unclosed and open any such gate after having opened same, or make said levee or said levee right-of-way a place of deposit or storage for any woodpiles or refuse, garbage or dead animals or any cotton, lumber, bricks or any other commodities, or who shall willfully do any material damage injurious to said levee, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each offense. In addition to the penalties herein provided for, if any levee board is required to remove any such forbidden objects herein described, the owner or owners of such forbidden objects shall be liable in damages to the levee board for the cost of removing such objects, which damages may be recovered in a court action brought for that purpose; and the said levee board shall have a right of action against any person for any other damage sustained to the levee or levee right-of-way by reason of a violation of this section.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 97 - Crimes

Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways

§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery

§ 97-15-5. Highway commission members, employees or highway contractors; conspiracy to violate contracts and defraud state

§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices

§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll

§ 97-15-17. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; failure to give bond; suffering bridge, etc. to be out of order

§ 97-15-19. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; unreasonable detention of person

§ 97-15-21. Levees; breaking enclosures; depositing trash, etc., or storing commodities; damaging

§ 97-15-23. Levees; disfiguring, etc., or excavating dirt or sand on levee right-of-way

§ 97-15-25. Levees; maliciously cutting, destroying, etc.

§ 97-15-27. Levees; hunting or engaging in target practice upon mainline levee structure or right-of-way

§ 97-15-31. Littering highways, streets, sidewalks, etc. with tacks, glass or other damaging objects

§ 97-15-33. Obstructing, injuring, destroying bridge, causeway or ferry

§ 97-15-35. Obstructing or injuring plank-road, covered, or other roads

§ 97-15-37. Obstructing public highway

§ 97-15-39. Obstructing waterways; felling tree or bush into stream or canal or obstructing in any way

§ 97-15-41. Obstructing waterways; felling trees in excess of six inches in diameter into running stream

§ 97-15-43. Obstructing waterways; navigable channel

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

§ 97-15-47. Road overseers; refusing or neglecting duty

§ 97-15-49. Road overseers; suffering road to remain out of repair

§ 97-15-51. Corporation convicted for failure to keep road, etc., in repair; consequences of failure to pay fine