54-13-305 - Owner or keeper of ferry to keep sediment back.

54-13-305. Owner or keeper of ferry to keep sediment back.

Following any high water, in which sediments are deposited by any river or stream, it shall be the duty of the owner or keeper of the ferry to keep the sediments washed or shoveled back with the fall of the stream.

[Acts 1921, ch. 76, § 2; Shan. Supp., § 1700a2; Code 1932, § 3008; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-1715.]