§ 43. Injuries to water rights; penalties
A person who diverts any part of the water from the sources taken by the Village pursuant to the preceding sections, without the written consent of the trustees, or who maliciously destroys or injures a dam, reservoir, aqueduct, pipe, hydrant, or any similar property, or property appurtenant thereto or breaks down or tears away any property placed to protect the same, which is held, owned, or used by said Village, or wantonly or maliciously diverts any part of the water from an aqueduct belonging to said Village, or corrupts such water or renders it impure, either within such reservoir or reservoirs, or in such sources as lead thereto, or obstructs its flow by unnecessarily depositing any foreign substances therein, or wantonly or maliciously interferes with the distribution and flow of the water of said aqueduct by altering, opening, or shutting a stop cock, gate, hydrant or gage in or attached to said aqueduct, or shall maliciously interfere with or injure said electric light wires, lamps, connections, or appurtenances, shall be fined not more than $50.00 or imprisoned not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit to the Village the damages occasioned by such malicious act, to be recovered with costs in an action on the case founded in this statute. (Added 1892, No. 114, § 43; amended 1933, No. 193, § 2.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Title 24 Appendix - Municipal Charters
Chapter 261 - Village of Orleans
App § 1. Boundaries; corporate names; powers
App § 2. Alteration of bounds; requisites
App § 4. Annual Village meeting; when held
App § 5. Special meetings on failure to warn annual meetings
App § 6. Checklist of voters; power of trustees in respect thereto
App § 7. Qualification of voters in Village meeting
App § 8. Officers, how elected, terms of office
App § 9. Duties of the Moderator
App § 11. Special meetings; how called
App § 12. General powers and duties of trustees
App § 13. Duties of Treasurer and Collector
App § 16. Powers and duties of the Board of Fire Wardens
App § 17. Ordinances, regulations, and bylaws
App § 18. Bylaws, rules, and ordinances, when recorded to be the prima facie evidence
App § 19. Power of trustees in laying out streets, sidewalks, etc.; damages therefor, how recovered
App § 20. Power of trustees in laying sewers; proceedings by persons dissatisfied
App § 21. Assessment and collection of taxes
App § 22. Power of trustees in granting licenses
App § 23. Grand list, how composed
App § 24. Residents of Village not incompetent to hold Town offices
App § 25. Corporation empowered to borrow money and issue bonds and notes therefor
App § 26. Duties of listers of Town of Barton respecting real estate within Village limits
App § 27. Powers of trustees respecting water
App § 28. Further powers of trustees respecting water
App § 30. Proceedings by persons dissatisfied with award of trustees related to water
App § 31. Bylaws and regulations concerning the Water Department
App § 32. Power of Village to dispose of water rights
App § 33. Duties of Village in taking water or land
App § 34. Trustees; general control of water system
App § 35. Further duties of the trustees relating to water
App § 36. Power of trustees in lighting streets
App § 39. Village may establish water rents and regulate the mode of payment
App § 40. Application of water rents
App § 41. Trustees to make list of water rents; list, how composed
App § 42. Disposition of water rents
App § 43. Injuries to water rights; penalties
App § 44. Power of Village in acquiring land for public parks
App § 45. Duties of trustees respecting moneys received and disbursed
App § 46. Abatement of highway and Village taxes
App § 48. Present Village officers to hold office until their successors are chosen
App § 49. Subject to future legislation; when to take effect
App § 50. Authority of Village to buy and sell electric current
App § 51. Licensing and activities of itinerant street vendors and peddlers