428. If any person prevents an officer or employee of the municipality, or any other person acting on its behalf, from doing any of the said work, or from exercising any of the powers and rights hereinbefore granted, or embarrasses or interrupts him in the exercise of such rights, or causes any injury to the waterworks, apparatus or accessories thereof, or obstructs or prevents the working of the waterworks, or the apparatus or accessories thereto belonging, such person shall be liable, without prejudice to the penalties he may incur, for the damage that the municipality may suffer from any such act.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 438; 1999, c. 40, s. 51.