New Jersey Statutes 13:9-21. Duty to extinguish fires and notify firewarden
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 13:9-21
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
In any district in which a fire service is established, any person finding a wildfire burning in a forest or where the forest is endangered, shall immediately extinguish the same and shall notify a firewarden as soon as possible.
Amended by L.1981, c. 369, s. 26, eff. Dec. 30, 1981.