any such notice, shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars. (P. 

 L. 1906, p. 225.) 



46. (As amended 1911.} In any township or part thereof 



for which firewardens have been appointed 

 Permits to burn under the provisions of this act, waste, fal- 

 Tjrush, etc. lows, stumps, logs, brush, dry grass or fal- 



len timber shall not be burned unless the 

 -written permission of the State Firewarden, or a division 

 firewarden, or of the township or district firewarden of 

 the township or district in which such fire is set has been 

 first obtained. Such permission shall not be granted by 

 .any firewarden if, in his opinion, any forest or woodland 

 will be endangered thereby, nor shall such permission, if 

 granted, relieve or exonerate any person from any penalties 

 under this act, in case, by reason of such fire, any forest, 

 -brushland or woodland be burned ; provided, however, per- 

 mits shall not be necessary for burning said 

 materials when the fire is set in a public 

 road, garden or plowed field at a distance of 

 not less than two hundred feet from any woodland, brush- 

 land or field containing dry grass or other inflammable 

 material. (P. L. 1911, p. 55-) 



47. All ^-ersons who shall burn any pit of charcoal, or 



set fire to or burn any brush, grass or other 

 wSch'Id. 11 " 6 material whereby any property may be en- 

 dangered or destroyed, shall keep and main- 

 tain a careful and competent watchman ^ in charge of said 

 pit, brush or other material while burning. (P. L. 1906, 

 p. 225.) 



48. (As amended 1911.) No person shall set fire to or burn, 



or cause to be burned, any wasteland, brush- 

 es* 'fortiddeV *' land > or forest . land ' but nothin S in this sec ~ 

 tion shall be interpreted to forbid any per- 

 son from setting a backfire, or ground fire, or a surface fire, 

 upon his own property to protect the same ; 

 Backfiring provided, however, if such fire be permitted 



property Tni to escape, or does escape, to adjoining prop- 

 erty, then the person setting such fire, or 

 ^causing it to be set, shall be deemed to have violated the 

 provisions of this section. Any firewarden, 

 A firewarden however, shall have the power to set, or 

 ^ y ' * direct to be set, any backfire. In any town- 



ship in which a fire service is established 

 :any person who shall find a fire burning in the forest, or 



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