FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to  prohibit the negligent kindling of certain fires, to impose financial liability for causing certain fires, and to provide penalties therefor.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
     Section  1.  That § 34-35-9 be amended to read as follows:
     34-35-9.   Every person who negligently kindles or causes to be kindled, fire in any woods, brush, fields, marshes, or prairies and leaves it unquenched or who negligently or without full precaution to prevent fire spreading permits it to spread beyond his control so as to endanger the property of another, whether such fire is kindled upon his own land or not, or who, finding any uncontrolled fire burning, fails to give immediate warning and to make reasonable attempt to quench it, or who at any fire at any place is guilty of any disobedience to the lawful orders of any public official or fireman attempting to control said fire, or who interferes with any such officer in any such case or refuses to assist in controlling said fire, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. No person may:

     Any violation of this Act is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person found guilty of violating subsection (1) or (2) of this Act shall compensate the fire department for any unreimbursed costs incurred in fighting the fire in addition to any other penalty imposed by the court.