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88.11

Statute ID: 12700

Forestry - Assistance for fire fighting

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Statute Number:

88.11

Enactment Date:

Jan 1, 1859

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 1993

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Forestry - Assistance for fire fighting

Statute ID:

12700

Created:

Jan 2, 2009 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jan 2, 2009 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

1993 c 328 s 20 ; 2009 Payables List Update; Headnote

Summary Text:

Forestry - Assistance for fire fighting

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/88/11.html

Legislative Session:

1993 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jan 2, 2009

Subdivision 1.  
At any time forest officers, with the approval of the commissioner, may employ suitable persons to prevent and extinguish any fires. Each forest officer so employed shall be supplied with the necessary equipment. The commissioner, or any forest officer, may summon any person of the age of 18 years and upward to assist in stopping any fire burning in the district under the care of such state employee and may incur any other necessary and reasonable expense for this purpose, but shall promptly report the matter to the next superior officer or other state employee over the forest officer.


Subd. 2.   
Any able-bodied person so summoned who refuses or neglects or otherwise fails to assist in extinguishing such fire or who fails to make all reasonable efforts to that end, until released by the summoning state employee, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The forest officer shall have power to commandeer, for the time being, equipment, tools, appliances, or other property in the possession of any person either summoned to assist in extinguishing the fire or in the vicinity thereof, and to use, and to require the persons summoned to use, the commandeered property in the fighting and extinguishing of the fire. The owner of any property so commandeered shall be promptly paid just compensation for the use thereof and all damages done to the commandeered property while in this use by the forest officer from any money available for these expenses under sections 88.03 to 88.22.