If the officer shall consider that the fire be due to criminal carelessness, the person responsible for it shall be indicted before a magistrate for a misdemeanor and, upon conviction of the same, may be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisoned for not more than ten days. HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-1179; 1952 Code Section 47-1179; 1942 Code Section 7262; 1932 Code Section 7262; Civ. C. '22 Section 4417; Cr. C. '22 Section 119; 1917 (30) 361.
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