OC for ME
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As a property owner myself, in South Carolina, with water courses similar to Huzzah Creek, I would have not confronted the floaters and simply called the sheriff.STEELVILLE, Mo. • It was just supposed to be a pit stop.
A group of family and friends on an annual float trip stopped at a gravel bar in the Meramec on Saturday afternoon to refresh drinks and answer the call of nature, according to Loretta Dart, who was on the trip. Her cousin went into the woods to urinate.
In doing so, he apparently ignited the ire of a property owner along the river fed up with people traipsing on his property. James Robert Crocker, 59, confronted the group with a 9 mm handgun, and in an altercation over property rights that rapidly escalated to gunfire, fatally shot Dart’s husband in the head from a few feet away, authorities say.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_a2774d0e-578c-5d01-89e2-d334dbe7c9c3.html
Please take note of the listing of rivers, not "creeks" at the bottom of the opinion letter.This is in reply to your request for an official opinion from this office concerning the question whether individuals are authorized to float or fish in the Little St. Francis River or from the bank of such stream, or camp on the bank of the river or on a sand or gravel bar of the river, and also asking whether a land owner of real estate adjacent to the river can stretch barbed wire across the river in order to keep his cattle from going onto adjoining land.
http://ago.mo.gov/opinions/1971/264-71.htm
Elder v. Delcour (Mo. 1954)
The current basis for the law regarding floating and private property rights.