Nevada Code § 475.040

Destruction of timber, crops or vegetation by fire caused by gross negligence; criminal penalty; civil action
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Every
person who, with gross negligence, lights a fire for any purpose along the road
through any woodland, or upon the same, or at any other place in the open, and
thereby, or by any other means, sets fire to any growing timber or forest,
shrubbery, crops, grass or vegetation, and thereby causes the destruction of
any timber, forest, crops, grass, vegetation or property not his or her own, is
guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS
193.155 , proportionate to the value of the loss resulting therefrom, in
addition to being liable to the owner of such property for the full value
thereof in a civil action.

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