61-14-07. Unlawful interference with rights to use of water - Penalty

61-14-07. Unlawful interference with rights to use of water - Penalty Any person interfering with or injuring or destroying any headgate, weir, benchmark, well, or other appliance or works for the appropriation, diversion, storage, apportionment, or measurement of water, or for any hydrographic or hydrologic surveys, or interfering with any person engaged in the discharge of duties connected with a headgate, weir, benchmark, well, or other appliance or works for those purposes, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and liable for the injury or damage resulting from the unlawful act. The department of water resources and the person in charge of an irrigation work, and their authorized assistants and agents, may enter upon private property for the performance of their respective duties, but may not damage the property unnecessarily.