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A.  In order to accomplish the purposes of the district, to protect the works, improvements, and property of the district, both real and personal; to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage to the district by misuse of any works, improvements, or properties or by the pollution or misuse of the waters of the district or any water course therein, the board of commissioners may make and enforce such rules and regulations as it shall deem necessary and advisable as follows:

(1)  To protect and preserve the works, improvements, and properties owned or controlled by the district, prescribe the manner of their use by public corporations and persons, and preserve order within and adjacent thereto.

(2)  To prescribe the manner of building bridges, roads, or fences, or other works in, along, or across any channel, reservoir, or other construction of the district.

(3)  To prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipelines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the works of the district or any water course therein and the manner in which the water courses of the district may be used for sewer outlets or for disposal of waste.

(4)  To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply, provided by the impoundments constructed, and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of such water supply.

(5)  To prohibit or regulate the discharge into sewers of the district of any liquid or solid waste deemed detrimental to the works and improvements of the district.

(6)  To establish rules and regulations and cause them to be enforced with regard to activities engaged in upon any public water body in the district which are not regulated by the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission or the United States Army Corp of Engineers.

(7)  To manage and control surface and groundwater levels in the district.  Any rule or regulation pertaining to the management and control of groundwater levels in the district shall be subject to approval by the Groundwater Resources Commission.

B.  Any person who violates the rules and regulations established and promulgated by the board of commissioners pursuant to this Section shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned for more than sixty days, or both.  Each day of violation shall constitute a separate offense.

Added by Acts 1966, No. 299, §10; Acts 1993, No. 830, §2; Acts 2004, No. 390, §1; Acts 2005, No. 81, §1.