If any person or persons shall willfully cut into, mutilate or disfigure any levee or excavate dirt or sand from the right-of-way owned by any board of levee commissioners or any part thereof, or trespass upon said levee in violation of posted regulations, without being authorized to do so by the said board of levee commissioners, 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, or shall be confined in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Offenses Affecting Highways, Ferries and Waterways
§ 97-15-3. Highway commission members and employees; bribery
§ 97-15-11. Highway contractors, materialmen, etc.; collusion to raise prices
§ 97-15-15. Keeper of ferry, toll-bridge or causeway; charging excessive toll
§ 97-15-19. 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.
§ 97-15-31. 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
§ 97-15-43. 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