est warden shall see or have reported to him a forest fire, it shall 

 be his duty immediately to repair to the scene of the fire and employ 

 such persons and means as in his judgment seem expedient and 

 necessary to extinguish said fire. He shall keep an itemized account 

 of all expenses thus incurred and send such account immediately to 

 the State forester. 



SECTION 20. 



Funds for forest protection Action for cost of fire-fighting. The 

 boards of county supervisors of the several counties of this State 

 are hereby authorized to levy and appropriate money for purposes 

 of forest protection, improvement, and management; and said boards 

 shall have recourse under an action at law for debt against any 

 land owner, individual, or corporation on whose account they shall 

 be obliged to pay out money for fighting fire for the amount which 

 they shall have expended for such purpose. 



SECTION 16. 



Notice, fire, trespass, etc. The State forester shall furnish notice, 

 printed in large letters on cloth, calling attention to the dangers 

 of forest fires and to trespass laws and their penalties, and to the 

 rules and regulations of the commission, which notice shall be dis- 

 tributed by the State forester to forest wardens and posted by them 

 in conspicuous places upon State forest reserves and along the 

 highways. 



(2) FALLOW AND OTHER FIRES. 



(This sub-division comprises the provisions of law, if any, concern- 

 ing the burning of fallow, brush, etc., by farmers and the general 

 setting of fires to woods by hunters, fishermen and others.) 



SECTION 3701, CODE SUPPLEMENT, 1910 (POLLARD). 



Setting fire to woods, grass, etc.; penalty. If any person unlaw- 

 fully and maliciously set fire to any woods, fence, grass, straw or 

 other thing capable of spreading fire on lands, he shall be fined not 

 less than five nor more than five hundred dollars, and be confined 

 in jail not less than one or more than twelve months, or in the dis- 

 cretion of the jury be confined in the penitentiary not less than one 

 nor more than three years. [L. 1908, Ch. 40.] 



SECTION 3702, CODE, 1904. 



Setting fire to woods, marshes, brush, etc., whereby another is 

 damaged; penalty. If any person carelessly, negligently, or inten- 

 tionally set any woods or marshes on fire, or set fire to any stubble, 

 brush, straw, or inflammable substance, capable of spreading fire 

 on lands, whereby damage is done to the property of another, he 

 shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 

 [L. 1887-8, p. 288.] 



SECTION 23, CHAPTER 195, LAWS 1914. 



Burning brush, etc., precautions Prima facie proof of wilfulness 

 or neglect Civil action and costs. It shall be unlawful for any per- 

 sons or corporations, as land owner, to set, or procure another to 



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