RS 3:4280 Spark arresters and ash pans; required for locomotives and engines
§4280. Spark arresters and ash pans; required for locomotives and engines
No person shall operate any locomotive, or logging, portable, or stationary engine which burns wood, coke, or coal and which is operated or used within two hundred feet of any grass, brush, cut-over, or forest land, unless the engine is equipped with an approved and efficient spark arrester and ash pan. The commission may prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for the proper enforcement of this provision, or suspend its requirements at such times and under such circumstances as may warrant suspension. The commission may enter or authorize its agents to enter private premises in the enforcement of the provision.
Whoever wilfully violates this Section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and any employee wilfully violating this Section shall, for each offense, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.