Title 23, Title 23: Parks, Forests and Public Shade Trees

Sec. 23-37. Powers and duties of state forest fire control personnel and district and deputy fire wardens. Temporary emergency workers. (a) State forest fire control personnel and district and deputy fire wardens shall, under the supervision of the State Forest Fire Warden, use a…

Sec. 23-37a. Forest fire-fighting equipment for fire companies. Upon written request by any fire company which may be called upon to fight forest fires, the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall provide such company, from reserves available to the commissioner…

Sec. 23-37b. Forest fire-fighting equipment account. (a) There is established within the General Fund a separate account to be known as the forest fire-fighting equipment account, for the purpose of providing money for the purchase by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental …

Sec. 23-37c. Termination of forest fire-fighting equipment account. Section 23-37c is repealed. (P.A. 84-347, S. 2, 5; P.A. 86-312, S. 10, 21; P.A. 87-500, S. 1, 3; P.A. 89-351, S. 10, 11.)

Sec. 23-38. Posting of notices containing fire laws. State forest fire control personnel may post such notices relating to forest fires and the statutes concerning fires as the State Forest Fire Warden prepares, and any person who wilfully or maliciously tears down or destroys an…

Sec. 23-39. Compensation of wardens and firefighters. The compensation of district and deputy fire wardens, trained firefighters organized in accordance with rules issued by the State Forest Fire Warden and such laborers as said warden finds it necessary to employ shall be fixed …

Sec. 23-40. Patrol personnel. The State Forest Fire Warden may appoint patrol personnel, who shall receive compensation for the time actually employed, and may establish and equip fire lookout stations and furnish necessary equipment for such patrol personnel. Any patrol personne…

Sec. 23-41. Disposal of receipts. All sums received by the State Treasurer from railroad companies or from any other source, as reimbursement for expenses incurred by the State Forest Fire Warden or his deputies in the performance of their duties, shall be deposited in the Genera…

Sec. 23-42. Liability of railroads for damages caused by sparks. Any railroad company which, through act of its employees or agents, by sparks from its locomotives or otherwise, sets fire to trees, brush or grass on lands outside the right-of-way of such company, shall be liable …

Sec. 23-43. Determination of railroad fire hazards. The State Forest Fire Warden may, at any time, bring a petition in writing to the Commissioner of Transportation, describing such portions of the right-of-way of any railroad company operating a railroad in this state, and land …

Sec. 23-44. Protection from railroad fire hazards. As to any portion of any railroad right-of-way and contiguous land that may be found by the Commissioner of Transportation to constitute such a fire hazard, the commissioner, upon motion of said commissioner or at the request of …

Sec. 23-45. Regulations by commissioner. Violations. Penalty. The Commissioner of Transportation is authorized to make and enforce such rules and regulations as may be required to carry out the provisions of sections 23-43 and 23-44 and may, at any time, for cause shown, upon hea…

Sec. 23-46. Removal of cut brush along highways. Penalty. (a) No person, firm or corporation and no agent of any state department or town shall pile and leave piled for a period of more than ten days any cut brush, tree-growth or other inflammable material, except farm products, …

Sec. 23-47. Forest fire hazards. In case of emergency, when down timber, parts of trees or brush, within two hundred feet of any highway, creates an unusual fire hazard that may endanger life or property, the State Forest Fire Warden, with the written consent or at the written di…

Sec. 23-48. Kindling fire in the open. Penalty. Any person who kindles or directs another to kindle a fire in the open air, without proper authorization from state or local authorities or any person who burns materials that are prohibited from being burned by any provision of the…

Sec. 23-49. Permits for kindling fires. Exemptions. Section 23-49 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3490; 1949, 1953, 1955, S. 1885d; 1961, P.A. 543; 1969, P.A. 671, S. 5.)

Sec. 23-49a. Declaration of burning ban; special burning permit; penalty; exemptions. (a) No person shall kindle or use fire in the open air within one hundred feet of woodland, brushland, or area containing dried grass that is adjacent to any woodland or brushland, when the fore…

Sec. 23-50. Closing of forests by the Governor. Whenever it appears to the Governor that by reason of extreme drought or other hazardous conditions there is danger of forest fires, he may proclaim that any or all sections of woodland and brush land in the state shall be closed, f…

Sec. 23-51. Abandoned highways may be maintained for fire prevention. Section 23-51 is repealed, effective October 1, 2001. (1949 Rev., S. 3494; P.A. 01-150, S. 20.)

Sec. 23-52. Recovery of expenses for extinguishing fires. Section 23-52 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 3495; 1967, P.A. 338, S. 2.)