Is it illegal to encroach on rivers?

Legal analysis: generally illegal, it may also constitute a crime. The river authorities of local people's governments at or above the county level may, in addition to ordering rectification of illegal acts and taking remedial measures, impose warnings, fines and confiscate illegal income; The relevant responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions by their units or higher authorities; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Water Law.

Article 41 Units and individuals have the obligation to protect water projects, and may not occupy or destroy engineering facilities such as dikes, bank revetments, flood control, hydrological monitoring and hydrogeological monitoring.

Article 72 Whoever commits one of the following acts, which constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law; If it is not serious enough for criminal punishment and there is no provision in the flood control law, the water administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level or the river basin management institution shall order it to stop the illegal act, take remedial measures and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; Violation of the law on public security administration punishment shall be punished by the public security organs according to law; If losses are caused to others, they shall be liable for compensation according to law:

(a) occupation, destruction of water projects and dikes, revetments and other related facilities, destruction of flood control, hydrological monitoring, hydrogeological monitoring facilities;

(two) engaged in blasting, drilling wells, quarrying, soil and other activities that affect the operation of water projects and endanger the safety of water projects within the scope of protection of water projects.

Article 73 Whoever embezzles, steals or robs water engineering equipment such as flood control materials, flood control and drainage, farmland water conservancy, hydrological monitoring and metering, or embezzles or misappropriates state funds and materials used for water conservancy construction such as disaster relief, emergency rescue, flood control and resettlement compensation, which constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law.

The "Regulations" of People's Republic of China (PRC) river management forty-fourth in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, one of the following acts. The river authorities of local people's governments at or above the county level may, in addition to ordering them to correct illegal acts and take remedial measures, also impose warnings, fines and confiscation of illegal income. The relevant responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions by their units or higher authorities; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:

(1) Discarding or piling up objects that hinder flood discharge within the scope of river management; Planting trees or tall plants that hinder flood discharge; Building dikes, water blocking channels and roads;

(2) Building houses, grazing, digging ditches, drilling wells, digging pits, burying graves, drying grain, storing materials, exploiting underground resources, conducting archaeological excavations and conducting fair trade activities in dikes and berms;

(three) river regulation or construction of water engineering buildings and other facilities without approval or in accordance with the flood control standards and engineering safety standards prescribed by the state;

(4) Sand mining, earth borrowing, gold panning, sand mining, silting, blasting, drilling and digging fish ponds within the scope of river management without approval or in accordance with the provisions of the river authorities;

(five) without approval, storing materials, building factories or other building facilities, exploiting underground resources or conducting archaeological excavations in river beaches;

(6) Reclaiming lakes and rivers in violation of the provisions of Article 27 of these regulations;

(seven) unauthorized felling of revetment trees;

(eight) in violation of the provisions or instructions of the flood control headquarters during the flood season.