§ 19-6. Placing timber, brush, debris, etc. in streets, ditches; fences across ditches.

(a)

Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to throw or place in or upon any public road in the Parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, any tree, tree top, log, pole, brush, or any wood or timber of any character or description or any debris or other substance whatever; and it shall be unlawful for any person to throw or place in any ditch along the side of any public road in the Parish of Ouachita or in any ditch cut or made for the purpose of draining any public road in the Parish of Ouachita any tree, tree top, log, pole, brush, or any debris or any timber or any other substance whatever; or to construct in or across any such ditch any fence, wall, posts, railings or any other structure whatever; provided that if a ditch has been cut to drain a public road and such ditch does not run parallel with the road but is so constructed as to carry the water away from the road, the owner of the adjacent property may construct a fence across such ditch if the same is so constructed that it will not interfere with the free flow of the water in such ditch.

(b)

Penalty. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten dollars ($10.00), not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and in default of the payment of the fine and the costs, may be imprisoned in the parish jail for not less than five (5) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.

(Ord. No. 633, §§ 1, 2, 6-21-16)