Any governing authority may adopt an ordinance that shall make it unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation owning property within a city or town or any tenant of such property, which abuts a drainage or street ditch, to place or authorize the placement of trash, rubbish, debris, tree or log limbs, scrap material, or any kind of rubble in the drainage ditch or street ditch in front of their property or to, in any manner, obstruct or cause to obstruct the natural flow of runoff waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the governing authority.
La. R.S. § 38:214.1