If any township shall fail to appoint a fire- 

 warden when directed by the forest commis- 

 townS s [ on to do s> as Provided by section two of 

 fire service is not this act, (39) or shall fail to make an ap- 

 maintained. propriation sufficient to pay its share of the 



firewarden's salary and bills incurred in 

 fighting fires, assistance may be summoned by any firewar- 

 den as provided in this act, and any person so summoned 

 shall receive for his services only the amount that the State 

 would pay as its share under section six (43) of this 

 act. Bills for this service shall be rendered by the fire- 

 warden in charge of the fire directly to the forest commis- 

 sion, and shall be paid as are other bills of said commission. 

 No action for trespass shall lie against any person crossing 

 or working upon lands of another to extinguish fire. (P. 



L. ipn, P- 53-) 



42. The State Board of Forest Park Reservation Com- 



missioners shall have power, from time to 

 Powers of For- ^ me to prescribe such other duties and to 

 est Commission, make such regulations governing firewar- 

 dens for the prevention, fighting and ex- 

 tinguishment of forest fires, as in their judgment shall be 

 efficacious for that purpose. They may purchase and dis- 

 tribute to firewardens such material and equipment as they 

 may deem necessary for carrying out the provisions of this 

 act. The State Firewarden shall be custodian of and re- 

 sponsible for all such material and equipment, under such 

 rules as said commission may prescribe. (P. L. 1906, p. 

 223.) 



43. (As amended 1911.} Township and district firewar- 



dens and helpers shall be paid at the follow- 

 wardens. * in S rates > unless other rates shall be fixed.by 



the township committee, or other governing 

 body, and notice thereof filed with the State Firewarden. 

 Each township firewarden shall be paid at the rate of 

 twenty dollars a year, and each district firewarden, ap- 

 pointed as provided in Section 2 as amended, (39) at the 

 rate of ten dollars a year. Said sums shall be in lieu of all 

 allowances for making reports, for postage, for posting 

 fire-warning notices, and for issuing permits. For special 

 .services in investigating fires, and the causes thereof, and 

 for all time in actual fire fighting, firewardens and their 

 helpers shall be paid at the following rates: 



Firewardens, while engaged in fighting fires, two dollars 



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