Legislation Article Sanction
Wildlife Conservation LawArticle 98It will be sanctioned with a prison sentence of one to three years, who, without prior authorization from the National System of Conservation Areas, drains, dries, fills or eliminates lakes, non-artificial lagoons and other wetlands, declared or not as such.
Penal CodeArticle 226A fine of one month to two years and a fine of ten to one hundred days shall be imposed on a person who, for the purpose of profit: 1) Diverts in his favor public or private waters that do not correspond to him or takes them in greater quantity that to which he is entitled; and 2) The one that in any way hinders or prevents the exercise of the rights that a third party has over said waters.