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RI Gen L § 2-12-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-9 - Causing of fires.

§ 2-12-9. Causing of fires.(a) A person shall not:(1) Dispose of a lighted match, cigarette, cigar, ashes or other flaming or glowing substance or any other substance or thing that is likely to ignite a forest, brush, grass or woods fire, or throw or drop from a moving vehicle any of those objects or substances;(2) Set a backfire or cause a backfire to be set, except under the direct supervision of an established fire control agency or unless it can be established that the setting of the backfire is necessary for the purpose of saving life or valuable property;(3) Destroy, break down, mutilate or remove any fire control sign or poster erected by an established fire control agency in the administration of its lawful duties and authorities;(4) Use or operate on or adjacent to forest land, a welding torch, tar pot, or other device which may cause a fire, without clearing flammable material surrounding the operation or without taking other precautions prescribed by the director to insure against the starting and spreading of fire;(5) Operate or cause to be operated any engine, other machinery or powered vehicle not equipped with spark arresters, or other suitable devices to prevent the escape of fire or sparks; or(6) Discharge or cause to be discharged a gun firing incendiary or tracer bullets or tracer charge on to or across any forest land.(b) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) nor less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each offense.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-9; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-10 - Fire upon land of another - Penalty - Liability for damages.

§ 2-12-10. Fire upon land of another — Penalty — Liability for damages.(a) Any person being upon the land of another, or upon any highway adjacent to this land, who carelessly sets or maintains, or causes to be set or maintained, fire upon the land of another, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) or by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or both.(b) Any person being upon the land of another or upon any highway adjacent to this land, who willfully sets or maintains or willfully causes to be set or maintained fire upon land of another, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years nor less than thirty (30) days, or both.(c) Any person who carelessly suffers or permits any fire on his or her own land to extend beyond the limits of their own land, whereby the forest land or property of another are damaged shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars ($200) nor less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).(d) Any person convicted of the provisions of this section and of § 2-12-6 is liable for all damages caused and to civil action for the payment to the state or local fire company for all expenses incurred by the fire chief or senior officer or any other authorized forest fire official in attending or suppressing the fire or fires as a result from that action.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-10; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-11 - Fire fighting by fire chiefs and senior officers - Summons of assistance.

§ 2-12-11. Fire fighting by fire chiefs and senior officers — Summons of assistance.If a fire occurs in woodland, the fire chief, and the senior officer of the district in which the fire occurs, shall immediately take any measures that may be necessary, including backfiring and plowing, to control or extinguish the fire, and shall investigate the causes of fire and report the causes to the director. Any fire chief or senior officer has the authority to summon any use of bulldozers, trucks, and other property adapted to the purpose. Any person who refuses or neglects to assist or to allow the use of the bulldozers, trucks or other property required, is liable to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100). All active members of an organized fire department shall be called as a unit only, the unit coming under the authority of the officer in charge of the fire department. The fire chief or senior officer in charge of a fire shall keep an account of the time of all persons assisting him or her, and a schedule of all property used.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-11; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 23, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-12 - Posting of statutory provisions.

§ 2-12-12. Posting of statutory provisions.Notices containing a statement of §§ 2-12-6, 2-12-8, 2-12-10 — 2-12-12, and § 2-12-19, furnished by the director of the department of environmental management, shall be posted in suitable places by the fire chief.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-12; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-13 - Proclamation of hazardous conditions - Closing of forests.

§ 2-12-13. Proclamation of hazardous conditions — Closing of forests.(a) Whenever in his or her opinion an unusual forest fire hazard exists, the director of environmental management shall notify the governor, who has the authority to forbid by proclamation, any person or persons entering forests, woodlands or open lands in any parts of the state that he or she deems the public interest requires, and may by that proclamation suspend any woods operations and open season for taking fish, birds and quadrupeds. The proclamation shall be in full force and effect immediately after notice is given in the manner the governor may determine, and shall remain in force until rescinded by the governor. This does not prevent entry into forest or woodland areas by forest fire suppression agents, law enforcement agents, legal residents of those areas or persons engaged in pursuits necessary to the public health and welfare or, by any agency or person authorized by the state director of environmental management.(b) Any authorized representative or representatives of the director of environmental management, as well as state and local police authorities, shall enforce the provisions of the proclamation. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-13; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-14 - Closing of fishing and hunting seasons during drought.

§ 2-12-14. Closing of fishing and hunting seasons during drought.Whenever during an open season for the hunting of any kind of game, or for fishing for any kind of fish, it appears to the governor that by reason of extreme drought the presence of hunters and persons fishing is likely to cause forest fires, he or she may, by proclamation, suspend the open season and make it a closed season for any time he or she may designate and may prohibit the discharge of firearms or the building of open fires on or near forest land during that time.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-14; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-15 - Emergency powers of director.

§ 2-12-15. Emergency powers of director.Whenever, in his or her opinion, an unusual forest fire hazard exists, the governor shall in writing, notify the director of environmental management, and shall likewise notify the director when in his or her opinion the hazard has ceased to exist. Between the dates of the receipt by him or her of the notices, the director has full charge of the hazard and all fire chiefs and senior officers shall obey his or her orders or those of his or her authorized representatives; and he and she and his or her authorized representatives shall have all the powers of fire chiefs and senior officers and the director of the department of environmental management may establish rates of payment for equipment used in the prevention and suppression of forest fires. Any time during this period of unusual forest fire hazard, the director may prohibit, by a written directive filed with the secretary of state and by public announcement, all open air fires and any other activity conducted in the open air that creates a forest or wildland fire hazard, in any areas of the state that he or she deems necessary to protect the health and property of the people of the state. Any person, firm or corporation who violates a directive, upon conviction, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300) nor less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or not exceeding ninety (90) days nor less than thirty (30) days' imprisonment or both for each offense and each day shall be considered a separate offense.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-15; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-16 - Compensation of emergency fire fighters.

§ 2-12-16. Compensation of emergency fire fighters.Between the dates the state shall, upon vouchers approved by the director of environmental management and out of the appropriation provided for by § 2-11-11, pay fully, at the rate of the existing minimum wage per hour as set by the minimum wage law, all persons not resident of the city or town or fire district where they are employed by the director in fighting a forest fire and pay, at a rate prescribed by the director for all equipment and supplies coming from outside the city or town or fire district where they are to be used and authorized by the director in fighting forest fires but all other expenses shall be paid as provided in § 2-11-6. The expense of the authorized representatives of the director shall be paid out of the appropriation authorized by § 2-11-11.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-16; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-17 - Right of fire fighters and officials to enter land.

§ 2-12-17. Right of fire fighters and officials to enter land.No action of trespass shall lie against any person crossing or working upon the land of another to extinguish fire or to the director of environmental management or his or her representatives from crossing or working upon lands of another to investigate fire.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-17; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-18 - Disposition of fines - Limitation of prosecutions.

§ 2-12-18. Disposition of fines — Limitation of prosecutions.All fines recovered by virtue of this chapter and chapter 11 of this title shall be equally divided between the complainant and the forest fire district in which the offense was committed, and all prosecutions shall be commenced within three (3) years after the commission of the offense and not afterwards.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-18; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-19 - Enforcement and prosecutions.

§ 2-12-19. Enforcement and prosecutions.It is the duty of the director of the department of environmental management or his or her duly authorized representative to enforce the provisions of this chapter and chapter 11 of this title and to prosecute any person, firm or corporation who, in his or her opinion, is guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and in all prosecutions the director or his or her authorized representative is not required to enter into any recognizance or to give surety for costs. It is the duty of the attorney general to conduct the prosecution brought by the director under the provisions of this chapter and chapter 11 of this title.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-19; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-20 - Civil liability of dump operator.

§ 2-12-20. Civil liability of dump operator.Every person, firm, corporation or public agency who maintains a dump on owned, rented or leased property is liable in a civil action for the payment to the state or fire company for the expenses incurred by the fire chief or senior officer, or any other authorized forest fire official, in attending or suppressing forest fire as a result of burning in that dump and shall further be liable in civil action for any damage to another's property by fire as a result of burning in that dump.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-20; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-21 - Collection of fire suppression charges.

§ 2-12-21. Collection of fire suppression charges.(a) In lieu of any civil action that may be brought for the payment to the state or fire company for expenses incurred by a fire chief or senior officer, or authorized forest fire official in attending and suppressing a forest fire, the director of the department of environmental management, or his or her authorized representative, or the fire company jurisdiction or fire district in which the fire occurs, may submit to and collect from the person, firm, corporation or public agency causing the fire all charges for forest fire suppression costs. In the event those charges are submitted by a fire company or fire district to collect for suppression costs to any person, firm, corporation or public agency causing the fire, no payment shall be made by the state to the fire company or fire district as provided in §§ 2-11-6, 2-12-6 and 2-12-16. Within seven (7) days after the date of the fire, any fire chief of a fire company or fire district affected shall notify the director of the department of environmental management of his or her intention to submit suppression charges to any person, firm or corporation.(b) All suppression charges recovered by the department of environmental management shall be turned over to the general treasurer for the use of the state and a proper record shall be made of these suppression charges recovered.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-21; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-13-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-2 - Effective date as to future ratifications.

§ 2-13-2. Effective date as to future ratifications.When the compact is ratified by any of the states of the United States that may legally join in the compact in accordance with the constitution and laws of that state or by any of the provinces of the dominion of Canada, in accordance with the laws of Canada, then the compact becomes operative and effective as between this state and that other state or states of the United States or provinces of the dominion of Canada.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-2.
RI Gen L § 2-13-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-3 - Filing of notices of ratification and consent.

§ 2-13-3. Filing of notices of ratification and consent.The original notice of ratification received from the governor or other authorized official of any state or province joining in the compact shall be filed with the official copy of the compact in the office of the secretary of state of this state, and the notice, if any, as may be received from the president or the congress of the United States, signifying the consent of the congress to the compact, shall be filed in the same manner.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-3.
RI Gen L § 2-13-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-4 - Appointment of commissioners.

§ 2-13-4. Appointment of commissioners.The governor shall designate and appoint three (3) members, called commissioners, of the northeastern forest fire protection commission. One of those commissioners shall always be the director of environmental management or an officer holding an equivalent position who is responsible for forest fire control, the second shall be a state legislator who is a member of the Rhode Island commission on interstate cooperation, and the third shall be a citizen of the state designated by the governor as his or her responsible representative to serve at the pleasure of the governor.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 3; P.L. 1952, ch. 2962, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1952, ch. 2973, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-4.
RI Gen L § 2-13-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-5 - Compensation of commissioners.

§ 2-13-5. Compensation of commissioners.Each member of the commission shall receive his or her expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him or her in the performance of his or her duties and ten dollars ($10.00) per day as compensation, except that any member of the commission employed by the state of Rhode Island shall receive his or her regular salary in lieu of the ten dollars ($10.00) per day compensation while performing his or her duties as commissioner.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 3; P.L. 1955, ch. 3493, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-5.
RI Gen L § 2-13-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-6 - Powers of commission.

§ 2-13-6. Powers of commission.There is granted to the commission and the commissioners all powers provided for in the compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact. All officers of the state of Rhode Island are authorized and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact and it being declared to be the policy of the state of Rhode Island to perform and carry out the compact and to accomplish the purposes of the compact and to execute a compact on behalf of the state of Rhode Island with any one or more of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont and with any other states of the United States or provinces of the dominion of Canada as may legally join in the compact.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-6.
RI Gen L § 2-13-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-7 - Forest fire plan.

§ 2-13-7. Forest fire plan.The commission shall formulate and put into effect a forest fire plan and integrate the forest fire plan with the regional plan recommended by the compact commission. The plan shall include a reasonable effort to establish and maintain any adequate forest fire fighting services that are consistent with the requirements of the state and to make available those services to other signatory states consonant with maintaining reasonably safe protection to this state at all times.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-7.
RI Gen L § 2-13-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-8 - Commission's powers supplemental.

§ 2-13-8. Commission's powers supplemental.Any powers granted to the commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in the commission by other laws of the state of Rhode Island or by the laws of the states signatory to the compact or by the congress or the terms of the compact.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-8.
RI Gen L § 2-13-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-9 - Fiscal accounts - Annual reports and recommendations.

§ 2-13-9. Fiscal accounts — Annual reports and recommendations.The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements and shall report to the governor and the legislature of the state of Rhode Island on or before the 10th day of January in each year, setting forth in detail the transactions conducted by it during the twelve (12) months preceding January 1st of that year and shall make recommendations for any legislative action deemed by it advisable, including amendments to the statutes of the state of Rhode Island which may be necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of the compact between the signatory states and the provinces of the dominion of Canada.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 6; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-9.
RI Gen L § 2-13-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-13 - Northeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact|Section 2-13-10 - Audit of commission's books.

§ 2-13-10. Audit of commission's books.The controller of the state of Rhode Island is authorized and empowered from time to time to examine the accounts and books of the commission, including its receipts, disbursements and any other items referring to its financial standing that the controller deems proper and to report the results of that examination to the director of administration.History of Section.P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 6; impl. am. P.L. 1951, ch. 2727, art. 1, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-10.
RI Gen L § 2-14-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-14 - Tree Wardens|Section 2-14-1 - "Tree warden" defined.

§ 2-14-1. "Tree warden" defined.Wherever in this chapter the term "tree warden" is used, it means the tree warden appointed by any town or city as provided in §§ 2-14-2 and 2-14-3.History of Section.P.L. 1931, ch. 1763, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 225, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 2-14-1.
RI Gen L § 2-14-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-14 - Tree Wardens|Section 2-14-2 - Appointment by town council or city mayor.

§ 2-14-2. Appointment by town council or city mayor.Every town council at its regular meeting in January of each year, and the mayor of every city on or before February 1 each year, shall appoint a tree warden who is, or who within six (6) months of his or her assuming office, becomes an arborist, licensed under chapter 19 of this title, to engage in the business or practice of all phases of tree care, including, but without limiting the generality to the planting, pruning, trimming, spraying, or repairing of fruit, shade, forest and ornamental trees and shrubs.History of Section.P.L. 1931, ch. 1763, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 225, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1952, ch. 2973, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 2-14-2; P.L. 1962, ch. 150, § 1; P.L. 1966, ch. 173, § 1; P.L. 1994, ch. 149, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 259, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 317, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 78, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 450, § 1.