Bathing, swimming, discharge of any sewage or drainage or refuse or polluting matter which may pollute or corrupt or impair the purity or quality of a public drinking water supply or which renders the water supply injurious to health or poses a potential significant risk to public health and any activity which leads to such discharge in, or on, or in the immediate vicinity of any water body used as a source of public drinking water supply shall be prohibited. In addition, any other activity in or on or in the immediate vicinity of any water body used as a source of public drinking water supply which the director of the department of health deems to render the water supply injurious to health or to pose a potential significant risk to public health shall be prohibited or restricted. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be penalized pursuant to the provisions of § 46-14-8. The prohibition against bathing shall not apply to any camp or bathing resort located on a known tributary of any of the above-mentioned waters if such camp or bathing resort was licensed by the department of health prior to June 20, 1968.

History of Section.
P.L. 1897, ch. 491, § 1; P.L. 1904, ch. 1178, § 1; G.L. 1909, ch. 118, § 1; P.L. 1911, ch. 683, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 165, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 635, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 180; G.L. 1956, § 46-14-1; P.L. 1964, ch. 108, § 1; P.L. 1968, ch. 251, § 1; P.L. 1970, ch. 48, § 1; P.L. 1973, ch. 198, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 73, § 1.