If any person shall, in any manner, permanently obstruct any of the navigable waters, or shall place any obstruction therein and not remove the same within a reasonable time, the person offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days, 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