against fires; underground coal fires. No person, firm or corporation shall use or operate on land subject to fire by any cause, a sawmill, a power shovel, or an engine or machine capable of throwing sparks, unless the equipment is provided with an approved spark arrester. Escape of fire from such equipment shall be prima facie evidence that such appliance was not maintained propeerly in compliance with this section. Any person, firm or corporation owning any land and knowing of inflammable waste disposal on said land, and any person, firm or corporation using any landu for the purpose of inflammable waste disposal, shall remove annually all grass, brush, debris and other inflammable material adjacent to such disposal areas to provtide adequate protection to prevent the escape of fire to adjacent lands. Escape of fire from any such disposal area shall be prima facie evidence that this section had not been complied with. Any person, firm or corporation owning or leasing lany mineral interests and knowing of underground coal being on fire under that lansd shall between the first of November and the thirty-first of December of each year clear away all inflammable material within forty feet of any mine break or other opening through which the fire could escape to the surface. Any person, firm or corporation owning gany underground mineral interests shall use all practical means to confine, extinguish or suppress any such fire in such underground minerals. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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