500 ARTICLE 39A

ARTICLE 39A.

FORESTRY.

	10-11 Setting woods etc, on fire, let- ting fire escape to adjoining lands, penalty, precautions taken in setting woods, etc, on fire, evidence, damages 15 Forest Reserve Fund	Roadside Trees. 24 Signs or notices along highways. permits 26 Repealed Miscellaneous. 29-30 Repealed 33A Auxiliary forest preserves

An Code, 1924 sec 10 1912, sec 10 1906 ch 294 1927, ch 649, sec 10

10. Every individual or corporation that wilfully, maliciously, or with
intent, sets on fire, or causes or procures to be set on fire, any woods, brush,
grass, grain or stubble, on lands not their own, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction be punishable by a fine of not less than $25
or more than $2, 000, or imprisonment for not less than thirty days or more
than five years, or both such fine and imprisonment

An Code, 1924, sec 11 1912, sec 11 1906, ch 294 1927, ch 649, sec 11

11. Every individual or corporation that carelessly or negligently sets
on fire, or causes or procures to be set on fire any woods, brush, grass,
grain or stubble resulting in damage to the property of another, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punishable by a fine of
not less than $10 or more than $100, or imprisonment for not less than
ten days or more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment The
setting o± fire contrary to the provisions of this section, or allowing it to
escape to the injury of adjoining lands, shall be prima facie proof of care-
lessness or neglect within the meaning of this section, and the land owner
from whose land the fire originated shall also be liable in a civil action
for damages for the injury resulting from such fire, and also for the cost
of fighting and extinguishing the same, unless the said owner can prove
to the satisfaction of the Justice or other tribunal before which the case
may be tried that the injury complained of was suffered without any
negligence on the part of said owner, his, her or its agents, provided, how-
ever, that the provisions of Sections 10-11 shall in no manner contravene
the provisions of Article 23, Section 244 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, relating to railroad companies

An Code, 1924, sec 13 1912, sec 15 1906, ch 294 1931, ch 186

15. All money received as penalties for violations of the provisions of
this Article, less the cost of collection and not otherwise provided for,