A. Prohibited Acts And Conditions:
1. Any person, company or corporation who runs or causes to run irrigation water or irrigation wastewater across or upon the public highways, roads or streets by reason of failure to construct and maintain a good and sufficient ditch or ditches to carry the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and of committing and maintaining a nuisance.
2. Any person, company or corporation who dams up a ditch or ditches carrying irrigation water or irrigation wastewater or constructs or causes to be constructed or maintains or causes to be maintained a bridge or bridges across such ditch or ditches and thereby causes such water to run across or upon the public highways, roads, or streets shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and of committing and maintaining a nuisance.
3. Any person, company, or corporation who suffers or allows water used by them for the purpose of irrigation or any other purpose to flow into or upon the public highways, roads, or streets shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and of committing and maintaining a nuisance.
B. Evidence: Proof of water running from any lot or piece of land and into or upon the public highways, roads, or streets shall be competent evidence that the occupant thereof has caused the same to flow therefrom into and upon said public highway, road or street. (Ord. 24, 1953)
C. Penalty: Any person, company or corporation adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor or of committing or maintaining a nuisance, as proscribed in this section, shall be punished as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code. (Ord. 24, 1953; amd. 2008 Code)