§ 25-17 Pollution — in general.

If any person shall wilfully pollute or tend to pollute the water in any lake, dam or reservoir, line of conduit, waterpipe, gatehouse or other work constructed or used for supplying the City of Baltimore with water, by swimming, bathing or washing therein, or by washing or causing to be washed therein, or so near thereto as to tend to pollute the water therein, any clothes, the skin of any dead animal or any impure, fetid or noxious animal or vegetable matter, or shall throw or cause to be thrown therein, or so near thereto as to tend to pollute the water therein, any impure, fetid or noxious animal or vegetable matter, the person so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.