Any person who wilfully defaces, injures, or removes any property of the United States coast and geodetic, or geological, or other survey, constructed or used by virtue of an act of Congress referred to in R.S. 50:61 shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense and shall be liable in a civil action for damages sustained by the United States in consequence thereof.
La. R.S. § 50:64