438.060 Contaminating watercourse.
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(1)Except as provided in subsection
(2)of this section any person who places or causes
to be placed in any stream, dam, pool or pond any substance that renders the water
unfit for use or produces a stench shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor
more than one hundred dollars ($100) and imprisoned for not less than thirty
days nor more than six
(6)months.
(2)Any person who places the carcass of any beast in any watercourse or within
twenty-five
(25)yards of a watercourse, or casts it into any spring or pond shall be
fined not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) for the first
offense and for every subsequent offense not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor
more than one hundred dollars ($100).