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threshing machine, or bailing hay by means of a hay press, 
unless he shall keep at all times in convenient places upon 
each said combined harvester, header, or stationary thresh¬ 
ing machine or hay press, fully equipped and ready for 
immediate use, two suitable chemical fire extinguishers, 
approved by the Underwriters’ laboratories, each of the 
capacity of not less than two and one-half gallons. 
4b. Operating or causing to be operated any gas tractor, 
oil-burning engine, gas-propelled harvesting machine or 
auto truck in harvesting or moving grain or hay, or mov¬ 
ing said tractor, engine, machine, or auto truck in or near 
any grain or grass lands, unless he shall maintain attached 
to the exhaust on said gas tractor, oil-burning engine, or 
gas-propelled harvesting machine an effective spark- 
arresting and burning carbon-arresting device. 
4c. It shall be unlawful during the period between May 
15 and October 31 of each year for any person, company, or 
corporation to operate any steam, gas, or electrically- 
equipped donkey or stationary engine used in any woods 
operation located in any forest or brush land without first 
clearing away all inflammable material, including snags, 
from an area of at least one hundred feet in radius about 
such engine, and without providing all such steam oper¬ 
ated engines, including logging locomotives, with an ade¬ 
quate force pump and not less than two hundred feet of 
hose of not less than one and one-ouarter inches in diameter, 
and without providing and maintaining at all times for 
fire fighting purposes only a suitable box equipped with at 
least seven shovels and three axes at each such engine 
operated. It is Provided , however , that when two or more 
such engines are being operated within a distance of three 
hundred feet from each other, that only one such box 
equipped as above shall be maintained [; and Provided , 
further, that the requirements of this section shall not apply 
to logging operations in the redwood region ( Sequoia 
sempervirens )]. Any violation of this act shall be punish¬ 
able by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than 
five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail 
of the county in which the crime is committed for a period 
of not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or 
both such fine and imprisonment. 
5. Refusing or failing to render assistance in combating 
fires at the summons of any fire warden unless prevented 
by good and sufficient reasons. 
6. Leaving a camp fire burning or unextinguished with¬ 
out some person in attendance, or allowing such fire to 
spread after being built. 
7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the 
customary use of fires and of powder blasting in logging 
operations in the redwood region ( Sequoia sempervirens) nor 
