40a. Repealed 1911. (P. L. 1911, p. 58.) 



41. (As amended 1911.) Township and district firewar- 

 dens shall enforce all statutes of this State 

 now in force, or that may hereinafter be en- Powers and 

 acted for the protection of forest and timber g^lnd district 

 land from fire, and shall carry out the direc- firewardens, 

 tions of the State Firewarden or division 

 firewardens regarding the prevention and extinguishing of 

 forest fires. They shall have control and direction of all 

 persons and apparatus engaged in extinguishing forest 

 fires. They may plow land, or, in an emergency, set back fires 

 to check any fire. They may summon any 

 male person between the ages of eighteen assistance 31 " 11 

 years and fifty years who may live or be 

 within the jurisdiction cf such firewardens to assist in extin- 

 guishing fires, and may also require the use of horses and 

 other property needed for such purpose. Any person so 

 summoned who is physically able, who refuses or neglects 

 to assist, or to allow the use of horses, wagons or other 

 material required, .shall be liable to a pen- 

 alty of ten dollars. If, in the judgment of 

 a firewarden, a forest fire in an adjoining township shall 

 imperil the safety of any property in his own township, he 

 may. with assistants summoned as afore- 

 said, take such measures to extinguish f uthority i n 

 the fire, or to prevent its spread, as he tSfc 1 

 would take were it in his own munici- 

 pality; provided, that if any firewarden of the town- 

 ship in which the fire is located be present at 

 the fire, all work shall be done under his direc- 

 tion. If the State firewarden or any division firewarden 

 be present at any fire he shall ex-officio have complete 

 control. When a serious fire occurs the State firewarden 

 or any division firewarden may summon to 

 his aid firewardens from surrounding town- Serious fires, 

 ships with their assistants, and in such case 

 the State shall bear the whole expense of paying the fire- 

 wardens and assistants who reside in townships which were 



not threatened. In every other case in 



which a fire is fought by men from two or 



more townships the cost shall be appor- 

 tioned by the State firewarden among the townships in 

 which the fire burned, or which were directly threatened. 



