Amendment to Sec. 2751 of Act No. 2711 (Revised Administrative Code)
Act No. 3314, enacted on December 3, 1926, amends Section 2751 of the Administrative Code to prohibit the unlawful destruction of public forests. It specifies that making a caigin or damaging forest products without lawful authority is illegal. Additionally, it criminalizes negligence leading to the spread of fire from private premises to public forests. Penalties for violations include fines double the regular government charges for the destroyed timber or forest products, subsidiary imprisonment for insolvency, or imprisonment up to thirty days, at the court's discretion. The Act takes effect upon approval.
December 3, 1926
ACT NO. 3314
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-one of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2751. Unlawful destruction of public forest. — It shall be unlawful for any person to make a caiñgin in a public forest or in any manner to destroy such forest or part thereof, or forest products growing therein, otherwise than upon lawful authority. It shall also be unlawful for any person negligently to permit a fire which has been set upon his own premises to be communicated, with destructive results, to any public forest. A violation of this section shall be punished by a fine equivalent to twice the regular Government charges upon the timber or other forest product so unlawfully destroyed, and subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court."
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 3, 1926.