If any person casts, places or leaves in position where the same may be washed or drifted into the tideway of the River, any ballast, cinders, ashes, dirt, refuse or any heavy article whatever, he, for every offense, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding $100, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit by the Chairperson of Commissioners, for the use of the Commonwealth, before any magistrate of the city of Philadelphia or before a district justice of the proper county.
4 Pa. Code § 407.13