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4. Locomotives, engines and boilers. 



Using any logging locomotive, donkey or threshing 

 engine, or any other engine or boiler, in or near any 

 forest, brush or grass land, unless he shall prove upon 

 the trial, affirmatively, that such engines or boilers used 

 by him were provided with adequate devices to prevent 

 the escape of fire or sparks from smokestacks, ashpans, 

 fireboxes, or other parts, and that he has used every 

 reasonable precaution to prevent the causing of fire 

 thereby. 



5. Obliged to fight fire when called upon. 

 Refusing or failing to render assistance in combatting 



fires at the summons of any firewarden unless prevented 

 by good and sufficient reasons. 



6. Allowing fires to escape. 



Leaving fire burning or unextinguished on departing 

 from a camp or camping place, or allowing such fire to 

 spread after being built. 



7. Municipal corporation. 



The provisions of this section shall not apply to the 

 setting of fire on lands within any municipal corporation 

 of the State. 



SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith 

 are hereby repealed. 



MALICIOUSLY SETTING FIRE. 



PENAL CODE, SEC. 600. Every person who wilfully and 

 maliciously burns any bridge exceeding in value fifty 

 dollars, or any structure, snowshed, vessel or boat, not 

 the subject of arson, or any tent, or any stack of hay 

 or grain or straw of any kind, or any pile of baled hay 

 or straw, or any pile of potatoes, or beans, or vege- 



NOTE. The Political Code, section 3345, states that "Whenever 

 the woods are on fire any justice of the peace, constable, or road 

 overseer of the township or district where the fire exists, may 

 order as many of the inhabitants liable to poll tax, residing in 

 the vicinity, as may be deemed necessary, to repair to the place 

 of the fire and assist in stopping or extinguishing it." It may 

 sometimes be necessary for fire fighters to take advantage of this 

 privilege where no firewarden is available. 



