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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. 
Section 49. All locomotives which shall be run through forest lands, shall 
be provided with approved and efficient arrangements for preventing the 
escape of fire and sparks. The forest commissioner may petition the public 
utilities commission, setting forth that there is danger of fire to lands within 
the Maine Forestry District from the operation of locomotives on said rail- 
road; and said commission 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. 
Section 50. 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 win- 
dows 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. 
Section 51. For all damages caused to forest growth by any person em- 
ployed in the construction of any railroad built in this State after the third 
day of May, eighteen hundred. and ninety-one, the company owning such road 
shall be primarily liable to the person or persons so damaged. During the 
construction of such roads through woodland, there shall be kept posted in 
conspicuous places on each line of the roadways at distances of two hundred 
feet, abstracts of the laws relating to forest fires. Any person employed in 
the construction of such railroads, who shall set or cause to be set, any fire 
along the line of said roads, shall, before leaving the same, totally extinguish 
said fires, and upon failure to do so, such person shall be punished by a fine 
of not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail 
not exceeding six days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. All persons 
having charge of men in the construction of such railroads shall see that the 
provisions of this section are carefully complied with, and for any negligence 
or want of ordinary care on their part in relation to the same, they shall be 
liable to the penalties imposed by this section. 
Section 52. Any railroad company violating the requirements of sections 
forty-eight, forty-nine and fifty, shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dol- 
lars for each offence. 
SLASH LAW 
Revised Statutes, Chapter 8 as Amended by Chapter JII—Public Laws 1919 
Section 58. 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 cf 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 
