§ 20-1-111. RIGHT OF ENTRY OF COUNTY EMPLOYEES.  


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  • (a)

    Any agent, servant, or employee of the county shall have the right to enter upon any private lands or property for the purpose of cleaning out the bed of any stream or other watercourse or the public sanitary sewer system, in whole or in part; provided that no substantial change in the alignment, course, width or depth of such stream or other watercourse or sewer system shall be hereby authorized.

    (b)

    No such agent, servant, or employee shall, when acting under the authority of this section, damage or destroy any property or lands entered by them in the performance of their work.

    (c)

    No owner, occupant, or agent of private property or lands so entered shall obstruct, impede, or annoy such agents, servants, or employees in the performance of their work under this section. Any owner, occupant, or agent violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(1988 Code, § 35-136) (Bill No. 126, § 2, 9-28-1990; Bill No. 30-03, § 1, 7-1-2004)