2014 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation
CHAPTER 34 - SOUTH CAROLINA PRESCRIBED FIRE ACT
SECTION 48-34-50. Liability for damages, injury, or loss caused by prescribed fire.
A property owner or lessee or his agent or employee conducting a prescribed fire pursuant to this chapter is not liable for damage, injury, or loss caused by fire or other consequences of the prescribed fire, except for smoke, unless negligence is proven. A property owner or lessee or his agent or employee conducting a prescribed fire pursuant to this chapter is not liable for damage, injury, or loss caused by the resulting smoke of a prescribed fire unless gross negligence or recklessness is proven.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 325, Section 1; 2012 Act No. 139, Section 2, eff April 2, 2012.
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