Every person who negligently, wilfully or maliciously digs up, removes, displaces, breaks down or otherwise injures or destroys any county or other public highway or bridge, or any private way, laid out by authority of law, or bridge upon such highway or private way, or who negligently, wilfully or maliciously sprinkles, drains, diverts or in any manner permits mud, debris or water from any sprinkler, ditch, canal, flume, reservoir, vehicle or from any other source to flow upon or saturate by seepage any county road, which act tends to damage the road or tends to be a hazard to traffic thereon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not apply to the natural flow of surface or flood waters that are not diverted, accelerated or concentrated by the person. The person shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day, or during any portion of which, any violation of this section is committed, continued or permitted, and shall be punished in accordance with this section.
(1966 Code, § 14-9.2) (Ord. 533, § 1(part))