§ 3483 - Injuries to certain property; penalty
§ 3483. Injuries to certain property; penalty
(a) While the United States is at war or threatened with war, a person shall not:
(1) Injure or attempt or conspire, or have in his or her possession any tool, explosive or means with intent to use the same or for some one else to use, to injure a bridge, road, car, boat, canal, dockyard, telephone or telegraph line or equipment, wireless station or equipment, railway or highway equipment, road or railway making equipment, property or a corporation subject to the supervision of the public service board, property designed for use by the state or a municipality or railway, telephone or telegraph company, property of a person, copartnership or corporation engaged in or about to engage in making munitions of war or property to become the property of the state, or a building belonging to the state or a municipality or to a railway, telephone, or telegraph company or to a corporation subject to the supervision of the public service board; or
(2) Pollute or place any poisonous substance in any water liable to be used by a person or domestic animal.
(b) A person who violates a subdivision of subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned not more than 20 years. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 39, eff. March 1, 1961; 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)