Section 12. If any person or persons whosoever, shall, from and after the passage of this act, cast or place or leave in position where the same may be washed or drifted into the tideway of the river Delaware, or into the river Schuylkill from the lower falls thereof to its junction with the river Delaware, any ballast, cinders, ashes, dirt, refuse, or any heavy article whatever, he or they so offending, for every such offense, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, by the President of said Commissioners, for the use of the Commonwealth, before any magistrate of the city of Philadelphia, or justice of the peace of the proper county.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.