4165-4170.5
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
SECTION 4165-4170.5
4165. Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, at a forest fire, does any of the following: (a) Disobeys the lawful orders of any public officer or fireman. (b) Offers any resistance to, or interference with, the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the fire. (c) Engages in any disorderly conduct which is calculated to prevent the fire from being extinguished. (d) Forbids, prevents, or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish the fire. (e) Rides, drives, or propels any vehicle or conveyance upon, over, or across any firehose or chemical hose which is used by, or in charge of, any public officer or fireman, or injures or damages in any manner any such hose or apparatus of any kind which is in use by, or in charge of, any public officer or fireman. 4166. Every person who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). If the defendant refuses, on conviction, to pay the fine, he shall be confined in the county jail of the county in which conviction is had for a period not to exceed one day for every five dollars ($5) of the fine imposed, or may be subject to both such fine and imprisonment. 4170. Any uncontrolled fire burning on any lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, grass, grain or any other flammable material, without proper precaution being taken to prevent its spread notwithstanding the origin of such fire, is a public nuisance by reason of its menace to life and property. 4170.5. The department or any other duly established fire protection agency may summarily abate an uncontrolled fire as a public nuisance by controlling and extinguishing the fire.