Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 38, § 211. Cutting or destroying levees prohibited

No unauthorized person shall wilfully and maliciously cut, alter, break, or destroy in any manner any public or private levee, embankment, floodwall, floodgate, or other flood protective device within a levee district or cause to open when officially closed or cause to close when officially opened, any floodgate, stoplog structure, valve or other flood protective device made for protection from overflow or shall aid and abet any person in so doing.

Whoever violates this Section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor for not more than ten years.