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Health and Safety Code § 13003

CHAPTER 1. Liability in Relation to Fires

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 13003Official source ↗

Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 445.

Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who uses any steam-powered logging locomotive, donkey, or threshing engine, or any other steam engine or steam boiler, in or near any forest, brush, grass, grain, or stubble land, unless the steam engine or steam boiler is provided with adequate devices to prevent the escape of fire or sparks and unless he uses every reasonable precaution to prevent the causing of fire thereby.