Pennsylvania Act 1923-300 — FOREST FIRES, PERSONS SETTING

Act text

FOREST FIRES, PERSONS SETTING
                 Act of Jun. 14, 1923, P.L. 761, No. 300              Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     To authorize the Department of Forestry to offer and to pay
        rewards for evidence sufficient to convict anyone maliciously
        setting forest fire, and to authorize payment of such rewards
        to local forest fire wardens under certain conditions.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 302(h) of Act 18 of 1995, which
            created the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental
            Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection,
            provided that the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources shall exercise the powers and duties conferred
            upon the Department of Forestry by Act 300 of 1923.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the Department of
     Forestry is authorized to offer and to pay rewards for evidence
     leading to the arrest and conviction of any person who
     maliciously sets fire to any woodlot, forest, or wild land. When
     such evidence is obtained by any local forest fire warden during
     time for which said warden shall not have been otherwise paid,
     the Department of Forestry is authorized to pay, from its
     appropriation, the amount of said reward to said fire warden.