Any overseer who shall willfully fail or neglect to keep the public road crossings of any levee in his road district in good repair, so as to insure the safety of the levee, or who shall fail to repair such crossing when notified by the levee inspector in writing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered by indictment or upon information before an associate circuit judge.
§ 245.530, RSMo