No person shall open or close any valve, gate or manhole, make any attachment to or take any water from the conduit line from the intake on the east branch of the Vermilion River to the Water Division station at Oberlin, or open the intake, place any obstruction in the conduit line or in any way interfere with, injure, damage or deface the dam, intake, conduit line or any connection therewith belonging to the Oberlin Water Division. (1957 Code §911.23)