§ 2-12-7. Exemption of attended fires.
The provisions of § 2-12-6 do not apply to fires set or maintained in accordance with regulations approved by
the director of the department of environmental management or his or her duly authorized
representative, or to any act that may be done under authority given to any incorporated
fire district or under the supervision of a fire chief or senior officer in which
case the person requesting supervision shall pay for the actual time required for
the supervision, to the city or town fire chief or senior officer, the prevailing
rate per hour customarily paid to supervisory employees on construction work in the
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§ 2-12-7. Exemption of attended fires.
The provisions of § 2-12-6 do not apply to fires set or maintained in accordance with regulations approved by
the director of the department of environmental management or his or her duly authorized
representative, or to any act that may be done under authority given to any incorporated
fire district or under the supervision of a fire chief or senior officer in which
case the person requesting supervision shall pay for the actual time required for
the supervision, to the city or town fire chief or senior officer, the prevailing
rate per hour customarily paid to supervisory employees on construction work in the
area or to burning in attended incinerators, fireplaces or rubbish burners, provided
that time of burning and location of the incinerator, fireplace or rubbish burner
is such that fires from any incinerator, fireplace or rubbish burner will not endanger
any forest and pasture, brush, sprout, waste or cutover woodland or buildings. The
provisions of § 2-12-6 shall not apply to fire chiefs and senior officers, the director of environmental
management or any member of the department of environmental management authorized
by him or her, when engaged in the discharge of their duties under this chapter, or
to any incorporated volunteer fire company authorized in writing by the director of
environmental management while engaged in prevention burning. Whoever sets or maintains
any attended fire shall totally extinguish the attended fire before leaving it and
failure to do so shall make the person, upon conviction, liable to a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars ($100) or less than ten dollars ($10.00) or to imprisonment not
exceeding thirty (30) days nor less than ten (10) days or both, and further they shall
be liable in a civil action for the payment to the state or fire company for the expenses
incurred by the fire chief or senior officer or any other authorized forest fire official
in attending or suppressing fire or fires as result from that burning.