1692 ARTICLE 39A

and other property and the preservation of the natural beauty, within the
State parks and State forests and upon any other lands under its control.
Such rules and regulations shall be posted in conspicuous places upon such
lands, and enforced by the forest and park officers. Any person violating
any such rule or regulation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than Five Dollars ($5.00)
nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for each and every offense.

Fire Hazards, Abatement of.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 34. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 23.

34. Every person, firm or corporation, operating a steam railroad
within this State, using wood, coke or coal as fuel shall, between the first
day of October of each year and the fifteenth day of April of the succeeding
year, after the notice hereinafter provided shall have been given establish
means for the prevention of forest fires along those parts of its tracks
adjacent to which the State Department of Forestry shall have found that
a fire hazard exists or will probably be caused by failure to take precau-
tions. Where the State Department of Forestry deems other means insuffi-
cient there shall be cleared a safety strip of a width not to exceed one hun-
dred (100) feet, as determined by the State Department of Forestry, mea-
sured horizontally from the outer Tail. Notice of the necessity for a safety
strip shall be sent by the State Department of Forestry to such person, firm
or corporation not later than the first day of September of each year fol-
lowing the date upon which this act takes effect, such safety strip to be
cleared by removing all dead wood, fallen leaves, withered grass and other
inflammable material except fences and buildings, and manufactured prod-
ucts from the ground embraced within the width above prescribed. Pro-
vided that nothing in this section shall prevent such person, firm or corpora-
tion from piling and storing along its right of way any materials necessary
for the construction, maintenance or operation of its railroad.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 35. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 24.

35. Every such person, firm or corporation shall have the power, sub-
ject to the provisions of Section 36 hereof, to clear such safety strips
of inflammable material without liability for trespass, but shall not remove
or damage, without compensation to the owner, any fence, building, or
merchantable timber or such living trees as the owner may designate.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 36. 1924, ch. 573, sec. 25.

36. It shall be the duty of the State Department of Forestry to secure
from the actual owner of each property involved, either by registered letter
deposited in the United States mail directed to the last known address of
such owner or by personal service, written permission for the annual clear-
ing of such safety strips as prescribed in accordance with the provisions of
Section 34 of this Article. In the event such owner cannot be so found
it shall be the duty of the State Department of Forestry to publish a notice
not later than the first day of September of each year at least once in two
papers of general circulation in the county wherein such property or the
major portion thereof lies, such notice to quote the provisions of this section.
If such owner shall not file an objection to such clearing with the State
Department of Torestry within fifteen days from the date of such publica-