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FOREST FIRES 



Pay of warden 

 and assistants. 



Selectmen to 

 audit bills. 



Paid by town 

 treasurer. 



County and 

 state each to 

 bear one-quar- 

 ter of the 

 expense. 



Special fund. 



Reward for in- 

 formation. 



son so summoned and who is physically able who refuses or neglects 

 to assist or to allow the use of horses, wagons or other material re- 

 quired, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars. No action for trespass shall lie 

 against any person crossing or working upon lands of another to 

 extinguish fire. 



SEC. 5. The town and district fire wardens shall receive two dol- 

 lars and fifty cents per day for time actually employed at forest fires 

 or in the prevention thereof. The selectmen shall fix the price per 

 hour to be paid to laborers at forest fires, employed by the fire ward- 

 ens or their deputies, not exceeding twenty cents per hour, and shall 

 give notice thereof to the town fire warden and the state forest fire 

 warden; but if the selectmen neglect to fix said price the town fire 

 warden may pay at the rate of twenty cents per hour for such ser- 

 vices. The said wardens shall render to the selectmen a statement 

 of the services rendered by them and by the men, teams, and the 

 other apparatus employed by them as provided by this act, within 

 one month of the date of such services, which said bill shall show in 

 detail the amount and character of the services performed, the exact 

 duration thereof, and all disbursements made by said wardens; said 

 bill shall be audited, and if approved by the selectmen of the town 

 wherein such services were rendered and expenses incurred, shall be 

 paid on the order of said selectmen by the town treasurer. A dupli- 

 cate bill, showing that the same has been audited and paid by the 

 town, shall be filed by the town treasurer with the state forest fire 

 warden; a copy thereof shall also be sent by said treasurer to the 

 county commissioners of the county in which said town is situated, 

 and the commissioners shall thereupon draw their order on the county 

 treasurer in favor of said town for one-fourth of the amount of said 

 bill, and another copy shall be sent to the state comptroller, who 

 shall draw his order on the state treasurer in favor of said town for 

 one-fourth of the amount of said bill. 



SEC. 6. All moneys received from fines imposed under and by 

 virtue of the provisions of section 1218, 1222 and 1237 of the general 

 statutes shall be paid to the state treasurer and kept by him as a 

 separate fund, to be paid out by him upon the requisition of the state 

 forest fire warden, for use in connection with the prevention and 

 suppression of forest fires, and such disbursements shall be audited 

 by the state board of control as provided in section 4450; provided, 

 that the state forest fire warden shall pay one-half of the amount 

 collected as a fine to the fire warden or other person upon whose in- 

 formation the proceedings in which such fine was imposed and insti- 

 tuted, but not exceeding fifty dollars in any one case. 



NOTE. Sec. 7 amended Sec. 1218 of the Revised Statutes by increasing 

 the fine of two hundred dollars to one thousand dollars. 



Posting of 

 notices. 



NOTE. Sec. 8, amended Sec. 1222 of the Revised Statutes by increasing 

 the fine from fifty dollars to five hundred dollars and the imprisonment 

 from thirty days to six months. 



NOTE. Sec. 9, amended Sec. 1237 of the Revised Statutes by increas- 

 ing the fine from twenty dollars to two hundred dollars. 



SEC. 10. The town and district fire wardens shall post such no- 

 tices, containing the state laws concerning fires, as the state fire 

 warden may prepare, and any person who wilfully or maliciously 

 tears down or destroys any such notice shall be fined ten dollars. 



