If any captain or master of a vessel, or any person, shall obstruct, or cause to be obstructed, any navigable bay, river, creek, or other navigable channel or pass thereof, in any manner whatever, or shall discharge any ballast in any harbor or place other than that designated by the harbor commissioners therefor, on conviction thereof, the offender shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not longer than six months, or both.
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