LAW 



Providing for the Disposition of Inflammable Material Along the 

 Railroads and Highways of the State of Maine. 



SECTION i. Any person, firm, corporation or agent, cutting any 

 forest growth on property adjacent to the right of way of any railroad 

 or highway within the State, shall leave the growth uncut on the land 

 within fifty feet of the limit of the right of way of a railroad or center 

 of the wrought portion of any plantation, town, city, county or state 

 road ; or shall dispose of slash and debris caused by cutting in such a 

 manner that inflammable material shall not remain on the ground within 

 fifty feet of the limit of the right of way of a railroad or center of the 

 wrought portion of any plantation, town, city, county or state road. 



SECTION 2. Slash and debris accumulating by the construction and 

 maintenance of railroads, highways or telegraph or telephone lines, shall 

 be disposed of in such a manner that inflammable material shall not be 

 left on the ground. 



SECTION 3. When any person, firm, corporation or agent shall have 

 failed to dispose of slash and debris as ordered by this act, the Forest 

 Commissioner shall cause such slash and debris to be so disposed of. 

 He shall pay the expense of so disposing of such slash and debris from 

 the funds at his disposal, legally applicable to such purpose ; and he or 

 his successor in office shall be entitled to recover double the amount of 

 such expenditures in an action of debt, to be prosecuted by the Attorney 

 General in the Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Kennebec, 

 against the person, firm, corporation or agent whose duty it was to 

 dispose of such slash or debris ; and there shall be a lien on the land on 

 which the cutting of the forest growth took place, to secure any judg- 

 ment recovered in such action, to be enforced by attachment in said 

 action, made within six months after such expenditures were made. 

 The sum recovered and collected in such action shall be returned to and 

 become a part of the fund from which the expenditures were made. 

 Provided, however, that any person, firm, corporation or agent cutting 

 wood or timber during the winter, after November first, shall have until 

 May first following in the Maine forestry district, and until April first 

 in the remainder of the State, to remove such slash and debris. If such 

 slash and debris are destroyed by burning, such burning shall be done 

 with the permission of the Forest Commissioner. 



(In effect throughout the State of Maine, July I, 1915.) 



