Damaging highways and bridges
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every person who , or digs up, removes, displaces, breaks down or otherwise injures or destroys any state or other public highway or bridge, or any private way, laid out by authority of law, or bridge upon any such highway or private way, or who , or sprinkles, drains, diverts or in any manner permits water from any sprinkler, ditch, canal, flume, or reservoir to flow upon or saturate by seepage any public highway, which act tends to damage such highway or tends to be a hazard to traffic thereon, shall be guilty of a . This section shall not apply to the natural flow of surface or flood waters that are not diverted, accelerated or concentrated by such person.
History: Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 1625.
Simplified explanation
Negligently, willfully, or maliciously damaging a public highway, bridge, or lawful private way, or letting water flow onto a public highway in a way that tends to damage it or endanger traffic, is a misdemeanor; no term is stated here.