10 FOREST I.AWS OF CALIFORNIA. 



contemplated by this act. If the said State Board of 

 Forestry after such inspection finds any forest area 

 inadequately protected adjoining, lying near, or inter- 

 mingled with other forest and covered wholly or in 

 part with inflammable debris, which by reason of such 

 location or condition or lack of protection endangers 

 life or property, the State Board of Forestry shall in 

 writing notify the owner or owners of such areas that 

 the condition of said areas endangers life or property 

 and shall require such person or corporation to clean 

 up such areas by the use of fire or otherwise at a time 

 and in a manner to be therein specified. Said notice 

 may be served upon the person or persons or corpora- 

 tion, or either of them, owning or having charge of 

 such areas or upon the agents of either, by any fire- 

 warden, deputy firewarden or special firewarden or any 

 employee of the State Board of Forestry, in the same 

 manner as a summons in a civil action; provided, how- 

 ever, that if any such area belong to any non-resident 

 person or corporation and there is no person in control 

 or possession thereof and such non-resident person or 

 corporation has no tenant, bailee, depository or agent 

 upon whom such service can be had ; or if the owner 

 or owners of such areas can not after due diligence be 

 found, then such notice may be served by posting the 

 same in some conspicuous place upon such area, and 

 by mailing a copy thereof to the owner thereof at his 

 last known place of residence, if the same is known or 

 can be ascertained. Any and all such inadequately 

 protected forest areas adjoining, lying near, or inter- 

 mingled with other forest and covered wholly or in 

 part with inflammable debris, which by reason of such 

 location or condition or lack of protection endangers 

 life or property, are hereby declared to be a public 

 nuisance; and whenever any such nuisance shall exist 

 within the State, and the proper notice shall have been 

 served, as herein provided, and the time specified in 

 said notice shall have elapsed without the nuisance 

 having been abated, it shall be the duty of the State 

 Board of Forestry to cause said nuisance to be at once 

 abated, by burning or otherwise disposing of the inflam- 

 mable debris. The expense thereof shall be paid by 



