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1 operating any railroad or part thereof within this state shall, 



2 subject to the approval of the state forester, equip and maintain 



3 in good condition an efficient spark arrester and a suitable ash- 



4 pan on every locomotive engine owned or operated by such cor- 



5 poration, except such engines as are operated by oil fuel or 



6 electricity: and shall require its employees operating such 



7 engines to exercise sufficient care to keep such devices in good 



8 order and to prevent the escape of live coals or sparks which 



9 may cause fires along the right of way. 



SEC. 23. Each railroad corporation or railroad company 

 owning or operating a railroad wholly or in part within this 

 state shall be responsible in damages to every person and cor- 



13 poration whose property may be injured or destroyed by fire 

 communicated directly or indirectly by any of the locomotive 

 engines in use upon the railroad owned or operated by such 

 corporation or company, and each such railroad corporation or 



" railroad company shall have an insurable interest in the prop- 

 erty upon the route of the railroad owned or operated by it 



and may procure insurance thereon in its own behalf for its 



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protection against such damages. 



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SEC. 24. Within thirty davs after this act takes effect, and 

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not later than July first of each succeeding year thereafter, any 



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person, firm or corporation cutting wood or lumber on prop- 

 erty adjacent to the right of wav of anv railroad within this 

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state shall dispose of the slash caused by such cutting in such 



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a manner that the inflammable material shall not remain on the 



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ground within twentv-five feet of anv railroad right of wav. 



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Any operator of wood or timber on such land, or any owner 



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of such land where cutting is done mav be fined not more than 



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ten dollars for each acre of such land or fraction thereof from 



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which the inflammable material is not properly disposed of 



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within sixty days from the cutting of the trees or brush thereon ; 



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ptwided, thai any owner or operator who cuts wood or timber 

 during the winter, after November first, shall have until May 



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first next succeeding to remove the slash in accordance with the 



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provisions of this section; <nnl. prtH-idrd. further, that if such 

 3 slash is destroyed by burning, such burning shall be done in 

 38 accordance with the forest laws of the State of California. 



