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Any person who shall wilfully or negligently commit 
any of the acts hereinafter enumerated in this section shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 
be punishable by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county 
jail not less than fifteen days nor more than six months, 
or both such fine and imprisonment, except that in the 
case of an offense against subsection five of this section 
the fine imposed may be not less than ten dollars. 
1. Setting fire, or causing or procuring fire to be set to 
any forest, brush or other inflammable vegetation growing 
on lands not his own, without the permission of the owner 
of such land; provided, that no person shall be convicted 
under this section who shall have set, in good faith and 
with reasonable care, a back fire for the purpose of stopping 
the progress of a fire then actually burning. 
2. Allowing fires to escape from the control of the per¬ 
sons having charge thereof to spread to the lands of any 
person other than the builder of such fire without using 
every reasonable and proper precaution to prevent such 
fire from escaping. 
3. Burning brush, stumps, logs, rubbish, fallen timber, 
fallows, grass, or stubble, or blasting with dynamite, powder, 
or other explosives, or setting off fireworks, whether on 
his own land or that of another, without taking every 
proper and reasonable precaution both before the lighting 
of said fire and at all times thereafter to prevent the escape 
thereof; provided, that any fire warden may, at his dis¬ 
cretion, give a written permit to any person desiring to 
burn or blast as aforesaid; such permit shall contain such 
rules and regulations for the building and management of 
such fires as the State Board of Forestry may from time 
to time prescribe; and in any prosecution under this 
subsection, it shall be prima facie evidence that the 
defendant has taken proper and reasonable precautions 
to prevent the escape of such fire, when he shall show 
that he has received such a permit and has complied 
with all the rules and regulations therein prescribed. 
4. Using any logging locomotive, donkey or threshing 
engine, or any other engine or boiler in or near any forest, 
brush, grass, grain, or stubble 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, 
ash cans, fire boxes, or other parts, and that he has used 
every reasonable precaution to prevent the causing of 
fire thereby. 
4a. Harvesting grain or causing grain to be harvested 
by means of a combined harvester, header, or stationary 
