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RI Gen L § 2-10-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-10 - State Forests and Forestry Projects|Section 2-10-13 - Enforcement.

§ 2-10-13. Enforcement.It is the duty of the director of environmental management or his or her authorized representative to enforce the provisions of this chapter and of chapter 15 of this title and to prosecute any person, firm, or corporation, that, in his or her opinion, is guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and in all those prosecutions the director or the director's 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 of chapter 15 of this title.History of Section.P.L. 1935, ch. 2250, § 103; G.L. 1938, ch. 223, § 10; G.L., ch. 223, § 13, as redesignated by P.L. 1940, ch. 914, § 1; impl. am. P.L. 1952, ch. 2973, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 2-10-13; P.L. 1958, ch. 172, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-1 - Definitions.

§ 2-11-1. Definitions.For the purpose of this chapter:(1) "Authorized representative" means anyone recognized and/or appointed and/or commissioned by the director of the department of environmental management to exercise and pursue the laws, rules and regulations intended by this chapter.(2) "Authorized senior officer" means a member of a fire organization who is authorized by the fire chief to issue burning permits.(3) "Director" means the director of the department of environmental management.(4) "Fire chief" means the elected, appointed, designated or recognized leader and member of a fire organization.(5) "Flammable material" means any substance that will burn, including, but not limited to, refuse, debris, waste, forest material, brush, stumps, logs, rubbish, fallen timber, grass, stubble, leaves, fallow land, slash crops or crop residue.(6) "Forest fire" or "Wildland fire" means any fire occurring on forest land or wildland.(7) "Forest land" or "Wildland" means timbered land, potential timber producing land, cutover or burned timber land or grass lands not including lands devoted to agriculture.(8) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, municipality, other public body, legal entity, employee or agent of the person.(9) "Senior officer" means a member of a fire organization who would be next in command during the absence of the fire chief.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-1; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-2 - Designation of fire chief, senior officer, and forest fire district.

§ 2-11-2. Designation of fire chief, senior officer, and forest fire district.The local chief shall be elected, appointed, or designated by the procedure established and within the framework spelled out in the fire company or fire district, city or town charter, by-laws, constitution, or any other existing format for appointment of a fire chief. The fire chief's term of office is recognized as that which is spelled out in the fire company or fire district, city or town charter, by-laws, constitution, or any other existing format for such term of appointment. The fire chief elected, appointed, or designated shall forthwith notify the director of the department of environmental management of the election, appointment, or designation and shall further notify the director of his or her specific forest fire district and jurisdiction. The director may then enter into agreements with each fire chief and fire company to provide assistance and to accept assistance in the prevention and control of forest fires and enforcement of forest fire laws that may include training of personnel. It is the responsibility of the city or town council to appoint a qualified resident to forest fire chief and to designate a forest fire company for any portion of the city or town not protected by an existing fire chief and fire company. If the city or town council of any city or town shall fail to appoint a fire chief as required by this section, the director of the department of environmental management shall appoint some qualified resident of the city or town to act as fire chief until an appointment shall be made by the city or town council as provided in this section. In any fire company or fire district, the fire chief shall establish and define his or her forest fire district and jurisdiction and shall designate a qualified resident of each district to serve as authorized senior officer. Any designated senior officer shall serve at the pleasure of the fire chief by whom he or she was designated. A fire chief shall notify the director of the department of environmental management of each authorized senior officer designated by him or her, and of each removal from designation by him or her, forthwith upon the designation or removal.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-2; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2; P.L. 2016, ch. 512, art. 2, § 39.
RI Gen L § 2-11-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-3 - Compensation of fire chief, senior officer, and their employees.

§ 2-11-3. Compensation of fire chief, senior officer, and their employees.Each fire chief, senior officer, and employee of any fire chief or senior officer shall receive an hourly rate equivalent to the existing state minimum hourly wage as prescribed by the minimum wage law, chapter 12 of title 28. Payment will be for his or her actual services rendered under this chapter and chapter 12 of this title in extinguishing forest fires. A person summoned by a fire chief or senior officer to assist in the extinguishment of a forest fire may be allowed once in any one day a three (3) hour minimum pay. Payment for property used under the direction of the fire chief or senior officer shall be made at a rate prescribed by the director of the department of environmental management. In addition to this compensation, each fire chief shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100) a year. This sum shall be in lieu of all allowances for making reports, for postage, for posting notices, for issuing permits, for telephoning, and for other services not provided in this chapter, provided that these services actually have been rendered, or that the expenses have been incurred.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-3; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-4 - Patrols during drought.

§ 2-11-4. Patrols during drought.During a period of drought, the local fire chief or senior officer in the fire company may require and request their fire personnel to patrol their districts, provided approval for the patrolling is first obtained from the director of the department of environmental management and the expenses for the patrolling are paid at the same rate and in the same way as for fighting fires.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-4; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-5 - Reports of fires.

§ 2-11-5. Reports of fires.Within two (2) weeks after any forest fire, the local fire chief of the local fire district in which the fire occurs shall mail a report of the fire to the director of the department of environmental management using the printed form furnished for that purpose. In case any local fire chief fails to make the report as required by this section, or the local fire chief fails to transmit a copy of the itemized account as provided in § 2-11-6, the fire department or fire district shall not receive from the state the payment due under § 2-11-6 for extinguishing the fire.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-5; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2; P.L. 1971, ch. 24, § 1; P.L. 2016, ch. 512, art. 2, § 39.
RI Gen L § 2-11-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-6 - Payments to local fire companies and districts.

§ 2-11-6. Payments to local fire companies and districts.Of the money required for all payments for the property used, and services rendered in extinguishing forest fires, fifty percent (50%) shall be paid by the state to the local fire company or fire district. The payment for work done in preventing and extinguishing forest fires shall not be made until an itemized account of all the labor performed and materials used is submitted by the local fire chief of the forest fire district or jurisdiction in which the work is done or the assistance rendered, and is approved for payment by the local fire chief of the forest fire district or jurisdiction, who shall, within sixty (60) days from the date of any fire, transmit a copy of the itemized account and order for payment to the director of the department of environmental management for the director's approval and when the itemized account and order for payment is approved the director shall transmit the account and order to the state controller who shall draw his or her order upon the general treasurer for the payment of fifty percent (50%) of the money to the local fire company or fire district.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-6; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-7 - Incidental expenses.

§ 2-11-7. Incidental expenses.The clerical work, posters, signs, printed matter and other supplies furnished by the director of the department of environmental management under this chapter and chapter 12 of this title, may be paid for out of the appropriation made as prescribed in § 2-11-11; provided, that any fire company, district, or any city or town may pay for any additional service for the prevention or extinguishment of forest fires that the fire company, district, or city or town council may authorize.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-7; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 23, § 3.
RI Gen L § 2-11-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-8 - Badges.

§ 2-11-8. Badges.Every fire chief or senior officer shall, when on duty, wear in plain sight a badge inscribed with the state seal and the words fire chief or senior officer.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-8; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 23, § 3.
RI Gen L § 2-11-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-9 - Enforcement powers of fire chiefs.

§ 2-11-9. Enforcement powers of fire chiefs.The fire chiefs shall enforce all laws relating to forest fires, and shall not be required to give surety for costs upon any complaint made by him or her. The fire chiefs shall have the power to arrest without a warrant any person detected in the act of setting or maintaining fire unlawfully.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-9; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-10 - Subpoena of witnesses.

§ 2-11-10. Subpoena of witnesses.For the purpose of investigating the causes of fire, the fire chiefs shall have the power to subpoena witnesses.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-10; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-11-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-11 - Forest Fire Personnel|Section 2-11-11 - State appropriations.

§ 2-11-11. State appropriations.The general assembly shall annually appropriate any sums that it may deem necessary in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and chapter 12 of this title and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sums appropriated, or so much of the sums as may be required, upon receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the director of environmental management.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-11-11; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 2.
RI Gen L § 2-12-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-1 - Definitions.

§ 2-12-1. Definitions.For the purposes of this chapter:(1) "Authorized representative" means anyone recognized and/or appointed and/or commissioned by the director of the department of natural resources to exercise and pursue the laws, rules and regulations intended by this chapter.(2) "Authorized senior officer" means a member of a fire organization who is authorized by the fire chief to issue burning permits.(3) "Director" means the director of the department of environmental management.(4) "Fire chief" means the elected, appointed, designated or recognized leader and member of a fire organization.(5) "Flammable material" means any substance that will burn, including but not limited to, refuse, debris, waste forest material, brush, stumps, logs, rubbish, fallen timber, grass, stubble, leaves, fallow land, slash crops or crop residue.(6) "Forest fire" or "Wildland fire" means any fire occurring on forest land or wildland.(7) "Forest land" or "Wildland" means timbered land, potential timber producing land, cutover or burned timber land or grass lands not including lands devoted to agriculture.(8) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, municipality or other public body or legal entity or employee or agent of the person.(9) "Senior officer" means a member of a fire organization who would be next in command during the absence of the fire chief.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-1; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-2 - Fire fighting equipment.

§ 2-12-2. Fire fighting equipment.The director of environmental management may purchase any special forest fire equipment and supplies that in his or her judgment may be necessary to promptly and quickly extinguish forest fires occurring in the more heavily wooded areas of the state, and the equipment and supplies shall be located in each of the forest lookout station zones at those places and under any supervision that the director may designate. The equipment and supplies may consist of gas masks, pumps, hose, brooms, shovels, trucks and similar articles, but the equipment and supplies shall not be purchased until an appropriation is made by the general assembly.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-2; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-3 - Lookout stations and appropriations.

§ 2-12-3. Lookout stations and appropriations.(a) (1) For the purpose of protecting the forests from fire, the director of environmental management may expend, within the amount appropriated, a sum sufficient to establish, equip and maintain lookout stations, may purchase or lease necessary land and purchase material, contract for the construction of lookout stations, employ a watcher at each station established during those periods in each year that the director may deem advisable, and shall fix the rate per hour for those services. The watchers shall at all times, during their employment, be subject to the control of the director.(2) The director of environmental management may cooperate in forest protection and may enter into agreements with other states, groups of states and the federal government to provide assistance and accept assistance in the control of fires which may include training of personnel. Any employee of the department of environmental management assigned to fire control duties or training programs outside this state shall be considered the same as working inside this state for the purpose of compensation and other employee benefits.(b) The general assembly shall annually appropriate, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to any other moneys appropriated for this purpose, any sum as it may deem necessary to be expended under the direction of the department of environmental management for the purpose of providing for keeping open and operating the forest fire towers in this state throughout twelve (12) months of each year and the state controller is authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of that sum, or so much as may be required from time to time, upon the receipt by him or her of proper vouchers approved by the director of environmental management, provided that authority is given to the director of environmental management to utilize the services of the personnel assigned to the operation of forest fire towers for other phases of the forestry, parks and parkways program, whenever, in his or her discretion, because of certain seasonal weather conditions, forest fire towers are not required to be staffed with a full complement of personnel.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-3; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4; P.L. 1972, ch. 80, § 1.
RI Gen L § 2-12-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-4 - Conferences of fire chiefs and senior officers.

§ 2-12-4. Conferences of fire chiefs and senior officers.The director of environmental management may, from time to time, call together the city or town and district fire chiefs and senior officers of the several cities and towns at places as he or she may designate, for conference and for instruction in methods of forest fire suppression. Fire chiefs and senior officers attending those conferences or meetings for instruction may be allowed their actual expenses incurred for attending not exceeding two (2) conferences or meetings during any one calendar year and those expenses shall be paid from the appropriation provided for by § 2-11-11 upon vouchers approved by the director of environmental management.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-4; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-5 - Rules and regulations.

§ 2-12-5. Rules and regulations.The director of the department of environmental management may make any rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, that in his or her judgment may be helpful in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and of preventing and suppressing forest fires.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-5; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-6 - Restrictions on open air fires.

§ 2-12-6. Restrictions on open air fires.Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall burn any flammable material on or adjacent to forest land without a written permit from the director of the department of environmental management or, his or her authorized representative, on forms prepared and under rules and regulations approved by the director, provided whoever sets or maintains a permit fire shall totally extinguish the permit fire before leaving it and the director, or his or her authorized representative, may cancel or suspend any or all permits, if, in his or her opinion, public necessity requires it. Any person doing any burning on or adjacent to forest land prior to burning operations, and at all times during the continuance of these operations, shall do that work in and around the area in which the burning is done as may be required by the director by rules and regulations promulgated under the authority granted in § 2-12-5. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) nor less than ten dollars ($10.00) or to imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days nor less than ten (10) days or both.History of Section.P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-7 - Exemption of attended fires.

§ 2-12-7. Exemption of attended fires.The provisions of § 2-12-6 do not apply to fires set or maintained in accordance with regulations approved by the director of the department of environmental management or his or her duly authorized representative, or to any act that may be done under authority given to any incorporated fire district or under the supervision of a fire chief or senior officer in which case the person requesting supervision shall pay for the actual time required for the supervision, to the city or town fire chief or senior officer, the prevailing rate per hour customarily paid to supervisory employees on construction work in the area or to burning in attended incinerators, fireplaces or rubbish burners, provided that time of burning and location of the incinerator, fireplace or rubbish burner is such that fires from any incinerator, fireplace or rubbish burner will not endanger any forest and pasture, brush, sprout, waste or cutover woodland or buildings. The provisions of § 2-12-6 shall not apply to fire chiefs and senior officers, the director of environmental management or any member of the department of environmental management authorized by him or her, when engaged in the discharge of their duties under this chapter, or to any incorporated volunteer fire company authorized in writing by the director of environmental management while engaged in prevention burning. Whoever sets or maintains any attended fire shall totally extinguish the attended fire before leaving it and failure to do so shall make the person, upon conviction, liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) or less than ten dollars ($10.00) or to imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30) days nor less than ten (10) days or both, and further they shall be 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 fire or fires as result from that burning.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-7; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.
RI Gen L § 2-12-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 2 - Agriculture and Forestry|Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention|Section 2-12-8 - Enforcement.

§ 2-12-8. Enforcement.The director of environmental management or any employee of the department authorized by him or her has the powers and is subject to the duties and obligations specified in chapter 7 of title 12 in dealing with any violations of the provisions of chapters 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15 of title 2.History of Section.G.L. 1956, § 2-12-8; P.L. 1970, ch. 124, § 4.