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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
§ 1043. Setting fire to woodland; unseasonable marsh burning; penalty.
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§ 1043. Setting fire to woodland; unseasonable marsh burning; penalty.
Whoever sets any woodland on fire, or, after April 1, sets on fire any marsh, shall be fined not less than $200, nor more than $1,000, and shall also be liable in damages to property owners for injury done by such fire. The burning of wood cut down or of brush in clearing land shall not, unless there be negligence, fall within this section.
72 Del. Laws, c. 235, § 2;
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