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2025 Delaware Code
Title 3 - Agriculture
Chapter 10. STATE FORESTRY
Subchapter IV. Offenses and Penalties as They Relate to Fires or Damage and Removal of Trees or Shrubs
§ 1041. Wilfully or maliciously starting fires.
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§ 1041. Wilfully or maliciously starting fires.
(a) Whoever wilfully or maliciously sets fire to any woodlot, forest, wild land, property, material or vegetation being or growing upon the lands of another shall be fined not less than $200, nor more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
(b) This section shall not apply to the setting of a backfire under the direction of a state forest officer to extinguish a fire then burning, nor to persons setting fire under §§ 1042 and 1043 of this title.
72 Del. Laws, c. 235, § 2;
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