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88.195

Statute ID: 2274

Statute Function ID: 18994

Forestry-Violation-Penalties

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Statute Number:

88.195

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Jul 1, 1993

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Forestry-Violation-Penalties

Statute ID:

2274

Created:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Sep 1, 2006 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

System

Legal Analyst Comment:

Summary Text:

Forestry-Violation-Penalties

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/88/195.html

Legislative Session:

2005 - NA

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Sep 1, 2006

Subdivision 1.  
Any person who starts and fails to control or extinguish the fire, whether on owned property or on the property of another, before the fire endangers or causes damage to the property of another person or the state is guilty of a misdemeanor.


Subd. 2.   
Any person who has a burning permit and fails to keep the permitted fire contained within the area described on the burning permit or who fails to keep the fire restricted to the materials specifically listed on the burning permit is guilty of a misdemeanor.


Subd. 3.   
Any person who carelessly or negligently starts a fire that endangers or causes damage to the property of another person or the state is guilty of a misdemeanor.


Subd. 4.   
Any person who participates in an act involving careless or negligent use of motor vehicles, other internal combustion engines, firearms with tracers or combustible wads, fireworks, smoking materials, electric fences, torches, flares, or other burning or smoldering substances whereby a fire is started and is not immediately extinguished before the fire endangers or causes damage to the property of another person or the state is guilty of a misdemeanor.


Subd. 5.   
Any person who operates a vehicle in a wildfire area when the ground is not snow-covered with an open exhaust cutout, without a muffler, without a catalytic converter if required, or without a spark arrestor on the exhaust pipe; or any person who operates a tractor, chainsaw, or other internal combustion engine not equipped to prevent fires is guilty of a misdemeanor.