RAILROAD FIRES. 



Sec. 60, Chap. 7. Rev. Stat. Maine, 1903. Every railroad company 

 whose road passes through waste or forest lands, shall during each year 

 cut and burn off or remove from its right of way all grass, brush or 

 other inflammable material, but under proper care and at times when 

 fires are not liable to spread beyond control. 



Sec. 61. All locomotives which shall be run through forest lands, 

 shall be provided with approved and efficient arrangements for pre- 

 venting the escape of fire and sparks. The forest commissioner may 

 petition the railroad commissioners, setting forth that there is danger 

 of fire to lands within the Maine Forestry District from the operation 

 of locomotives on said railroad ; and said commissioners may, after 

 notice and hearing thereon, make such orders and regulations relating 

 to the equipment and operation of locomotives, during times of drought 

 or danger of forest fires, as they deem necessary for the prevention of 

 fires on said lands. 



Sec. 62. No railroad company shall permit its employees to 

 deposit fire, live coals or ashes, upon its track in the immediate vicinity 

 of woodlands or lands liable to be overrun by fires, and any railroad 

 company operating a railroad through the Maine Forestry District shall 

 between the first day of May and the tenth day of November following 

 in each year, fasten down or secure screens or other obstructions in the 

 windows of all cars or apartments of cars in which smoking is allowed, 

 to prevent the throwing of burning matches, burning cigars, burning 

 cigarettes or parts thereof from the windows of such cars, and when 

 engineers, conductors or trainmen discover that fences along the right 

 of way or woodlands adjacent to the railroads, are burning or in danger 

 from fire, they shall report the same at their next stopping place which 

 shall be a telegraph office. 



RAILROAD PATROL. 



The Legislature of 1911 passed a bill compelling railroads to main- 

 tain proper patrol during dry and dangerous seasons, the bill being 

 entitled "An Act for the better protection of Forests from Fire," and 

 is as follows: 



Section i. It shall be the duty of the forest commissioner when- 

 ever, in his judgment, the woodlands along the railroads transversing 

 the wild lands of the state, over which said commissioner has jurisdic- 

 tion, are in a dry and dangerous condition, to maintain a competent and 

 efficient fire patrol along the right of way or lands of said railroads. 



Section 2. The forest commissioner shall keep or cause to be kept, 

 an account of the cost of maintaining such fire patrol along the line of 

 such railroad, including therein the wages and expenses of the em- 

 ployees engaged in maintaining such fire patrol, and the total cost 



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