Floating logs, timber or lumber upon watercourse without sufficient force to prevent obstruction.

Any person who floats any logs, timber or lumber upon any navigable watercourse, without accompanying the same with sufficient force to prevent the obstruction of such watercourse so as to hinder the removal of any logs, timber or lumber from the banks or shores thereof, must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00.

(Code 1896, §5403; Code 1907, §7865; Code 1923, §5600; Code 1940, T. 38, §109.)