If any person shall wilfully stop up, obstruct, injure or damage the passage of the waters of any of the common or private sewers or drains, he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected. P.L.L., 1860, §836 1888, §793 1915, §817 1927, §817 1930, §817 1938, §1012 1949, §627 1969, §20-1 1898, ch. 123, §817