Every person who, in violation of any right of any other person, willfully turns or uses the water, or any part thereof, of any canal, ditch, pipeline, or reservoir, except at a time when the use of the water has been duly distributed to the person, or willfully uses any greater quantity of the water than has been duly distributed to him or her, or in any way changes the flow of water when lawfully distributed for irrigation or other useful purposes, except when duly authorized to make the change, or willfully and maliciously breaks or injures any dam, canal, pipeline, watergate, ditch or other means of diverting or conveying water for irrigation or other useful purposes, is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 28.01.060) Penalty, see § 10.999