Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76A.djvu/568

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-472§ 1598. Taking water from or disturbing irrigation or other canals, etc. Whoever, without authority of the owner or managing agent: (1) takes water from a canal, ditch, flume or reservoir used for the purpose of holding or conveying water for manufacturing, agriculture, irrigation, generation of power, or domestic uses, with intent to defraud; (2) raises, lowers, or otherwise disturbs a gate or other apparatus thereof used for the control or measurement of water; or (3) empties or places into a canal, ditch, flume or reservoir, used for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1) of this section, rubbish, filth or obstruction to the freeflowof the water— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 1599. Injury to structures erected to create power or conduct or store water Whoever willfully or maliciously: (1) cuts, breaks, injures or destroys a bridge, dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, levee, embankment, reservoir or other structum erected to create hydraulic power, or to drain or reclaim a swamp or overflowed tide or marsh land, or to store or conduct water for agricultural or other purposes, or for the supply of the ••;, inhabitants of a city or town, or an embankment necessary to it, ' - or either of them; (2) makes an aperture in a dam, canal,flimie,aqueduct, reservoir, embankment, levee or structure erected for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (1) of this section, with intent to injure or destroy it; or (3) draws up, cuts or injures a pile fixed in the ground for the purpose of securing a sea bank or sea wall, or a dock, quay, jetty, lock or sea wall— shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than two years, or both. § 1600. Destroying or injuring places of confinement Whoever willfullv destroys or injures a public jail or other place of confinement, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than five years, or both; but if the damage or injury to the jail or other place of confinement is determined to be $200 or less, he shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned in jail not more than 180 days, or both. § 1601. Regulations governing placement of signs on lands or structures in Canal Zone; penalties for violation (a) The Governor may prescribe, and from time to time amend, regulations governing the construction or placing of signs, bills, posters, or other advertising devices on lands, buildings, or other structures in the Canal Zone. (b) Whoever violates a regulation issued under subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. Every day that an advertising device remains upon land or a structure, in violation bf a regulation issued under subsection (a) of this section, constitutes a separate offense. § 1602. Trespassing upon posted Government reservations; destruction or removal of signs (a) The Governor may cause any reservation or other place belonging to or under the control of the United States or an agency thereof to be posted by printed or painted signs, conspicuously placed at or near the reservation or place from which the public is to be ex-