§ 682. Malicious injury to works; injury to navigable waters by hydraulic mining; penalty

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1893

   Pub. L. 52–183 § 22 · 27 Stat. 507

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 682

   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 22, 27 Stat. 510.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 22, 27 Stat. 510.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 22. That any person or persons who wilfully or maliciously injure, damage, or destroy, or attempt to injure, damage, or destroy, any dam or other work erected under the provisions of this act for restraining, impounding, or settling purposes, or for use in connection Penalty. therewith, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars or be imprisoned not to exceed five years, or by both such fine and Violation of this act a misdemeanor. imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. And any person or persons, company or corporation, their agents or employees, who shall mine by the hydraulic process directly or indirectly injuring the navigable waters of the United States, in violation of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished Penalty. by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That this section shall take effect on Proviso. Operative date. the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

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