The Florida Senate

590.05  Road crews to extinguish fires.--Every member of a road construction or maintenance crew, whether employed by the Department of Transportation, or by the highway department or county commissioners of any county, and every road contractor or subcontractor of said Department of Transportation, or the highway department or county commissioners of any county, and their employees shall keep all fires set by them under control and confined to the right-of-way and suppress all fires discovered and detected by them within 200 feet of the centerline of the right-of-way of any state, county or public road, or highway on which and adjacent to which the said crew, contractor, subcontractor and employees are employed.

History.--s. 5, ch. 17029, 1935; CGL 1936 Supp. 4151(10-kk); ss. 23, 35, ch. 69-106.