§14‑137. Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields.
If any person, firm orcorporation shall willfully or negligently set on fire, or cause to be set onfire, any woods, lands or fields, whatsoever, every such offender shall beguilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. This section shall apply only in thosecounties under the protection of the Department of Environment and NaturalResources in its work of forest fire control. It shall not apply in the case ofa landowner firing, or causing to be fired, his own open, nonwooded lands, orfields in connection with farming or building operations at the time and in themanner now provided by law: Provided, he shall have confined the fire at hisown expense to said open lands or fields. (1907, c. 320, ss. 4, 5;C.S., s. 4310; 1925, c. 61, s. 2; 1941, c. 258; 1973, c. 1262, s. 86; 1977, c.771, s. 4; 1989, c. 727, s. 218(3); 1993, c. 539, s. 79; 1994, Ex. Sess., c.24, s. 14(c); 1997‑443, s. 11A.119(a).)
§14‑137. Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields.
If any person, firm orcorporation shall willfully or negligently set on fire, or cause to be set onfire, any woods, lands or fields, whatsoever, every such offender shall beguilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. This section shall apply only in thosecounties under the protection of the Department of Environment and NaturalResources in its work of forest fire control. It shall not apply in the case ofa landowner firing, or causing to be fired, his own open, nonwooded lands, orfields in connection with farming or building operations at the time and in themanner now provided by law: Provided, he shall have confined the fire at hisown expense to said open lands or fields. (1907, c. 320, ss. 4, 5;C.S., s. 4310; 1925, c. 61, s. 2; 1941, c. 258; 1973, c. 1262, s. 86; 1977, c.771, s. 4; 1989, c. 727, s. 218(3); 1993, c. 539, s. 79; 1994, Ex. Sess., c.24, s. 14(c); 1997‑443, s. 11A.119(a).)
§14‑137. Willfully or negligently setting fire to woods and fields.
If any person, firm orcorporation shall willfully or negligently set on fire, or cause to be set onfire, any woods, lands or fields, whatsoever, every such offender shall beguilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. This section shall apply only in thosecounties under the protection of the Department of Environment and NaturalResources in its work of forest fire control. It shall not apply in the case ofa landowner firing, or causing to be fired, his own open, nonwooded lands, orfields in connection with farming or building operations at the time and in themanner now provided by law: Provided, he shall have confined the fire at hisown expense to said open lands or fields. (1907, c. 320, ss. 4, 5;C.S., s. 4310; 1925, c. 61, s. 2; 1941, c. 258; 1973, c. 1262, s. 86; 1977, c.771, s. 4; 1989, c. 727, s. 218(3); 1993, c. 539, s. 79; 1994, Ex. Sess., c.24, s. 14(c); 1997‑443, s. 11A.119(a).)
