Every county legislative body may appoint a supervisor to visit the improvements made on the navigable streams in the county, at least once in every year, and make diligent inquiry into all offenses committed in regard to the streams, and institute proceedings against such offenses.
Code 1858, § 1303; Shan., § 1812; Code 1932, § 3078; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 70-105.