Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 9.54 Injury and Interference—flood Control

No person shall remove, mutilate, cut through, destroy or disturb in any manner whatsoever, any of the protection work, embankments or other flood control work in any stream, watercourse, waterway, channel or wash; nor shall any person interfere with any rain or stream gauge nor any communication system installed in connection with any flood control work without a permit from the council to do so. Whenever property owned or constructed by the Los Angeles County flood control district may be affected, no permit shall be issued by the council unless a similar permit has first been obtained from the authority having jurisdiction and control over such flood control district.

(Prior code § 8-502)

No person shall place, or cause to be placed, upon any property over which the Los Angeles 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 rubbish, refuse, tin cans or other matter that may impede, retard or change the direction of the flow of water, in any river, stream, waterway, watercourse, channel, arroyo or wash, or that will catch or collect debris carried by such water, or that is placed where the natural flow of the storm and flood water would carry the same downstream, to the damage and detriment of either private or public property adjacent to such river, stream, waterway, watercourse, channel, arroyo or wash.

(Prior code § 8-503)