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2013 New Hampshire Revised Statutes
Title XIX-A - FORESTRY
Chapter 227-L - WOODLAND FIRE CONTROL
Section 227-L:15 - Prohibiting Smoking or Kindling of Fires; Penalty.
NH Rev Stat § 227-L:15 (2013) What's This?
227-L:15 Prohibiting Smoking or Kindling of Fires; Penalty. – The governor, upon the recommendation of the director, when there is danger of starting fires in the woodlands of the state due to a period of protracted drought or excessive dryness which requires extraordinary precautions, may, with verbal approval of the council, by official proclamation, prohibit smoking in or near woodlands and prohibit the kindling of any open fire in or near woodlands in any or all parts of the state for such time as they may designate. Whoever is found guilty of violating the provisions of any proclamation issued pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a violation.
Source. 1995, 299:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
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