The Vermont Statutes Online
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Subchapter
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SEWER, WATER, AND LIGHT SYSTEMS
(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 251, § 804)
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§ 804. Unauthorized diversion and malicious damage
Any person who shall willfully, wantonly, or maliciously divert the water or part
thereof of any of the ponds, springs, streams, aqueducts, water courses, or reservoirs,
which shall be taken, used, or constructed by the Village, or shall corrupt the same,
or make it impure, or commit any nuisance therein, or shall bathe therein, or within
the limits that may be taken or prescribed by the Village pursuant to the provisions
of this chapter, or maliciously injure or destroy any dam, embankment, aqueduct, pipe,
reservoir, conduit, hydrant, structure, pump, machinery, or other property owned,
held, or used by the Village under the provisions of this chapter, shall be liable
to the Village, in treble damages therefor, to be recovered in an action of tort founded
on this statute. Such action may be commenced and prosecuted by the Board of Water
Commissioners in the name of the Village. (Amended 2015, No. M-13 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Feb. 24, 2016.)