§ 254-117. Obstruction of drainage canals, etc., prohibited; damages; civil and criminal penalties.

No person may willfully, or otherwise, obstruct any canal, drain, ditch, or watercourse or damage or destroy any surface water management facility within the district boundaries.

(1)

Any person who shall willfully obstruct any canal, drain, ditch, or watercourse or shall damage or destroy any water control or management facility constructed by the district shall be liable to any person injured thereby for the full amount of the injury occasioned to any land or other property by reason of such misconduct, and shall be liable to the district constructing the said work for double the cost of removing such obstruction or repairing such damage.

(2)

Whoever shall willfully or otherwise obstruct any canal, drain, ditch, or watercourse, or impede or obstruct the flow of water therein, or shall damage or destroy any water control facility existing within the district boundaries, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree as provided in F.S. § 775.082 and 775.083, and punishable as provided therein.

(Laws of Fla. ch. 2001-336, § 3)