Section 227-L:20 – Suitable Exhaust Systems on Motorized Equipment; Penalty.
227-L:20 Suitable Exhaust Systems on Motorized Equipment; Penalty. – I. Any motorized vehicle, which does not bear a currently valid state inspection sticker, and other motorized equipment including generators operating in woodlands and which emits exhaust within 4 feet of the ground, shall be equipped with a suitable exhaust system which will inhibit the […]
Section 227-L:21 – Fire Control Payments on Federal Lands.
227-L:21 Fire Control Payments on Federal Lands. – I. The expenses lawfully incurred by a forest fire warden or other authorized local fire official in the extinguishment of woodland fires on the White Mountain National Forest or other federal land within the state under a cooperative forest fire protection agreement with the state computed […]
Section 227-L:22 – Municipal Fire Control Payments; Apportionment of Expenses.
227-L:22 Municipal Fire Control Payments; Apportionment of Expenses. – I. The expenses of presuppression and suppression of woodland fires in municipalities, and other expenses lawfully incurred by wardens and deputy wardens of municipalities in preventing woodland fires, shall be borne equally by the municipality and the state, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, […]
Section 227-L:23 – State Fire Control Payments.
227-L:23 State Fire Control Payments. – I. When, in the opinion of the director, the expenses of fighting woodland fires in municipalities, and other expenses lawfully incurred by wardens and deputy wardens of municipalities in preventing forest fires, shall exceed an amount equal to 1/4 of one percent of the latest equalized locally assessed […]
Section 227-L:24 – Unorganized Places Fire Control Payments.
227-L:24 Unorganized Places Fire Control Payments. – I. The wardens and the deputy wardens in unorganized places shall render to the director a like statement of such expenses as they have lawfully incurred under this chapter in suppressing or preventing fires in woodlands within one month of the date upon which such expenses are […]
Section 227-L:25 – Authorization.
227-L:25 Authorization. – The governor on behalf of this state is hereby authorized to enter into a compact, substantially in the following form, with any one or more of the states of Connecticut, Maine, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and with such other states of the United States […]
Section 227-L:16 – Trespass upon or Smoking in White Mountain National Forest; Penalty.
227-L:16 Trespass upon or Smoking in White Mountain National Forest; Penalty. – It shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon, or to smoke upon, lands of the United States known as the White Mountain National Forest, as now or hereafter constituted, at any time when such entry or smoking shall be forbidden […]
Section 227-L:17 – Permits; Damages; Penalties.
227-L:17 Permits; Damages; Penalties. – I. It shall be unlawful for any person to kindle or cause to be kindled a fire upon the land of another without first obtaining permission from the landowner or the landowner’s agent, or upon public land without the written permission from the official caretaker, excepting that upon a […]
Section 227-L:18 – Flammable Material; Penalty.
227-L:18 Flammable Material; Penalty. – I. No person, firm, or corporation shall place, drop, or throw any flammable waste material on, near, or adjacent to, a public highway or private way in any place where a fire starting or burning in such waste material is liable to be or may be communicated to woodlands. […]
Section 227-L:6 – Duties of Personnel.
227-L:6 Duties of Personnel. – It shall be the responsibility of such personnel appointed within the provisions of RSA 227-L:4 to carry out duties assigned by the director in enforcing state forest laws and rules; directing and aiding forest fire wardens, deputy forest fire wardens, and other forest fire personnel in the performance of […]