The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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(Cite as: 24 App. V.S.A. ch. 261, § 43)
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§ 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.)