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Rivers And Canals Act

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Sections

  1. 1 Short title
  2. 2 Interpretation
  3. PART I: RIVERS
  4. 3
  5. 4 Drawing water from river
  6. 5
  7. 6 Jouissance of rivers
  8. 9 Rights to water maintained
  9. 10 Concession presumed not for irrigation
  10. 11 Borderers not to prejudice others rights
  11. 12 Borderers rights
  12. 13 Mode of calculating portion of water
  13. 14 Mode of abstraction of water
  14. 15
  15. 16 Penalty for removing and altering pipes
  16. 17 Water conveyed through ground of another
  17. 18 Owners of inferior land
  18. 19 Limits on servitudes
  19. 20 Works on opposite bank
  20. 22 Supreme Court to fix size of apertures
  21. 23 Right to springs
  22. 24 Works not required for prescription
  23. 25 No one to stop or alter river or stream
  24. 26 Control of activities near rivers
  25. 29 Establishment of public facilities
  26. 30 Bathing and washing in rivers
  27. 31 Fishing
  28. PART II: CANALS
  29. 32 Classification of canals
  30. 33 Rights to canal water
  31. 35 Prise d’eau
  32. 37 Taking of prise
  33. 39 Penalty for removing pipe or aperture
  34. 40 Drawing water from canal for personal use
  35. 41 Penalty for drawing water unlawfully
  36. 42 Use of machines in canals
  37. 43 Diversion of canal water
  38. 45 Projections in canals prohibited
  39. 46 Contravention of sections 42, 43 and 45
  40. 47 Mode of administering classes of canals
  41. 48 Community of riverains
  42. 49 Meetings of riverains
  43. 53 Appointment of syndic and joint-syndic
  44. 54 Dismissal of syndic and joint-syndic
  45. 55 Duties of syndic
  46. 56 Duties of joint-syndic
  47. 57
  48. 58 Appointment and dismissal of guardian
  49. 61
  50. 62 Duties of guardians
  51. 63 Guardians’ privileges
  52. 65 Riverains to keep canal clean
  53. 66
  54. 67
  55. 68 Penalties for defiling canals
  56. 69 Restrictions on building near canals
  57. 70 Prevention of canals from defiling
  58. 71 Repairs to canals
  59. 72
  60. 73 Summary recovery of expenses
  61. 75 Appointment of share not recovered
  62. 76 Where syndic refuses to repair
  63. 77
  64. 78 Minutes of proceedings
  65. PART III: GENERAL PROVISIONS
  66. 80 Jurisdiction
  67. 81 Referral to Supreme Court
  68. 82 Orders of the Governor-General
  69. 83 Decision of the Governor-General final
  70. 84 Complaints under Parts I and II
  71. 85 Disposal of fines
  72. 86 Savings
  73. 87 Throwing of dirty waters in river
  74. 88 Duty of manager of sugar mill
  75. 89 Injunction
  76. 91 Prosecution of offences
  77. 92 Normal flow of river
  78. 93 Measures for ascertaining normal flow
  79. 94
  80. 95 Temporary servitudes
  81. 96
  82. 97 Assessment of compensation
  83. 98 Clearing of river bed
  84. 99 Clearing and replanting river reserves