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setting of fire on lands within any municipal corporation 
of the State. 
The State law thus defines the following offenses: 
1. (a) Setting fire to any forest, etc., growing on lands 
not his own without permission of the owner of such land. 
(b) Causing fire to be set to any forest, etc., on lands 
not his own without permission of the owner. 
(c) No person shall be convicted of offenses “ a” or “b” 
who shall have set a back fire in good faith to check a fire 
already burning. 
2. (a) Allowing fires to escape from control to the lands 
of another person without using every reasonable precau¬ 
tion to prevent such escape. 
( b ) Allowing fires to spread to the lands of another 
person. 
3. (a) Burning brush, etc., on his own land without 
taking every reasonable precaution to prevent the escape 
of fire. 
(6) Blasting with dynamite, etc., in forest or brush- 
covered land, either his own or the property of another, 
without taking every reasonable precaution to prevent the 
escape of fire. 
(c) Burning permit and compliance with the regulations 
contained therein shall be prima facie evidence of reason¬ 
able and proper precaution to prevent the escape of the 
fire. 
4. (a) Subsection 4 puts the burden of proof on any 
person using any engine or boiler in or near any forest, 
brush or grass land to show that such engine or boiler was 
provided with adequate devices to prevent the escape 
of fire or sparks, and that he has used every reasonable 
precaution to prevent the causing of fires thereby. 
(b) (Subsection 4a.) The use of grain harvesters, 
headers or threshing machines, or hay presses, unless they 
are equipped with approved fire extinguishers. 
(c) (Subsection 4b.) The operation of gas-propelled 
tractors, harvesting machines, or auto trucks, or other 
oil-burning engines, without effective spark and burning 
carbon-arresting equipment. 
(d) (Subsection 4c). Operating a donkey engine be¬ 
tween May 15 and October 31 of each year in any forest 
or brush land without taking the precautions specified, 
the redwood region being excepted. 
(e) The moving of any such machines or engines in or 
near any grass or grain land without such equipment. 
5. (a) Refusing or failing to render assistance in com¬ 
bating fires at the summons of a fire warden unless pre¬ 
vented by good and sufficient reasons. 
