§ 14-14. Duties and responsibilities of owners or occupants of land.
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The owners, proprietors, lessees, tenants, or other occupants of land, property, or
structures shall be jointly and severally responsible for the existence of fires thereon,
and it shall be the duty of such parties, and they hereby are required by this section,
to prevent the starting of unauthorized fires on such lands, property or structures,
and said owners or other occupants shall eliminate and extinguish and assist in eliminating
and extinguishing the same when burning or which may exist from any cause whether
of their own account or from other source, including the spreading of fires to said
lands, property, or structures from outside areas.
