It is unlawful for any person, municipality or district to interfere
with, destroy or use in any manner whatsoever any levee, embankment,
channel, dam, reservoir, rain or steam gauges, telephone line, piling,
fence or other stream protection works constructed by or on behalf
of any public agency without a written permit therefor from City Council,
which permit shall be revocable whenever in the opinion of the City
Council the public interest and welfare require the revocation thereof.
No permit to use any flood control protection work or rights-of-way
owned or constructed by the County Flood Control District shall be
effective unless a written permit to do so has also been obtained
from the Board of Supervisors of the district.
(Prior code § 14.6)
It is unlawful for any person, municipality or district to place
or cause to be placed in the channel or bed of any river, stream,
wash or arroyo or upon any property over which the County Flood Control
District has an easement for flood control purposes duly recorded
in the office of the County Recorder, any wires, fence, building or
other structure, or any refuse, rubbish, tin cans or other matter
that may impede, retard or change the direction of the flow of water
in such river, stream, wash or arroyo, or that will catch or collect
debris carried by such water, or that is placed where the natural
flow of the storm and flood waters would carry the same downstream
to the damage and detriment of either private or public property adjacent
to the river, stream, wash, arroyo or channel.
(Prior code § 14.7)
