13:9-23 - Accumulations in forests as extraordinary fire hazard and public nuisance - New Jersey Statutes

13:9-23.  Accumulations in forests as extraordinary fire hazard and public nuisance
    The owner or lessee of any forest, any contractor or employee with authority  of the owner of, or any person doing public work in or upon, such forest, who  shall permit or suffer the accumulation by human activity of any litter from  trees, to lie or be upon such forest within 100 feet of any road trail or fire  break, to such an extent or in such manner as to facilitate either the origin  or spread of forest fires, shall be deemed thereby to have created an  extraordinary fire hazard, which endangers life and property and to have made  and maintained a public nuisance.

     Amended by L.1939, c. 246, p. 660, s. 1;  L.1981, c. 369, s. 28, eff. Dec. 30,  1981.