Section 49-19-111 - Promotion of forestry education, timber management and forest fire control

For the purpose of providing assistance to all farm woodland and timber landowners in the state, including private ownership, and to promote the growing, managing and harvesting of timber thereon, and to provide organized forest fire protection in all counties, and to encourage the production and growth of timber on all lands suitable therefor, and for the better management thereof, and to encourage greater private ownership and promote forest education and timber management and forest fire control, the State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of Sections 49-19-111 through 49-19-117.Codes, 1942, § 6046-01; Laws, 1944, ch. 238, § 1; Laws, 1989, ch. 514, § 3, eff. 7/1/1989.