California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Liability in Relation to Fires

• Section 13000.
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who allows a fire kindled or attended by him to escape from his control or to spread to...
• Section 13001.
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who, through careless or negligent action, throws or places any lighted cigarette, cigar, ashes, or other flaming or...
• Section 13002.
  (a)  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who throws or discharges any lighted or nonlighted cigarette, cigar, match, or any flaming or glowing substance,...
• Section 13003.
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who uses any steam-powered logging locomotive, donkey, or threshing engine, or any other steam engine or steam boiler,...
• Section 13004.
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who harvests grain or causes it to be harvested by means of a combined harvester, header, or stationary...
• Section 13005.
  Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who:(a)  Sells, offers for sale, leases, or rents to any person any tractor, engine, machine, or truck equipped...
• Section 13006.5.
  Every owner, operator, lessee, or other person in charge of any apartment house, roominghouse, motel or hotel heretofore or hereafter constructed, or any occupant thereof,...
• Section 13007.
  Any person who personally or through another wilfully, negligently, or in violation of law, sets fire to, allows fire to be set to, or allows...
• Section 13008.
  Any person who allows any fire burning upon his property to escape to the property of another, whether privately or publicly owned, without exercising due...
• Section 13009.
  (a)  Any person (1) who negligently, or in violation of the law, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire...
• Section 13009.1.
  (a)  Any person (1) who negligently, or in violation of the law, sets a fire, allows a fire to be set, or allows a fire...
• Section 13009.2.
  (a) In a civil action by a public agency seeking damages caused by a fire, pecuniary damages must be quantifiable and not unreasonable in relation to...
• Section 13009.5.
  Where the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection utilizes inmate labor for fighting fires, the charge for their use, for the purpose of Section 13009,...
• Section 13009.6.
  (a) (1) Those expenses of an emergency response necessary to protect the public from a real and imminent threat to health and safety by a public agency...
• Section 13010.
  Sections 13007, 13008, and 13009 of this code do not apply to nor affect any rights, duties, or causes of action in existence and accruing...
• Section 13011.
  Both doors of any double doors designated as the public entrance to any place of business shall be kept unlocked during normal business hours.(Added by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018