Section 20

Section 20. If any fire-warden shall fail, or wilfully or negligently refuse, to perform his duty, or shall render a false or fraudulent statement of services alleged to have been performed; or shall fail or refuse to pay promptly the respective amounts due those who have assisted in the extinguishing of said fires, after said amounts have been transmitted to him by the Commissioner of Forestry; such fire-warden shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or undergo imprisonment not exceeding three months, either or both, at the discretion of the court.