42-3,100. Closing head gates for failure to construct rating flume or measuring device.
If the proprietors of any ditch, canal, conduit or other works for diverting the water from any natural source shall fail or refuse to construct therein such rating flume or measuring device as is by this act required, any authorized officer may close the head gate of such canal, ditch, conduit or other works, and prevent water flowing therein until such rating flume or measuring device shall have been constructed and placed in such works.
History: L. 1891, ch. 133, art. 8, § 12; May 20; R.S. 1923, 42-3,100.