18 U.S.C. § 1855 : US Code - Section 1855: Timber set afire

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1855 : US Code - Section 1855: Timber set afire

Whoever, willfully and without authority, sets on fire any
timber, underbrush, or grass or other inflammable material upon the
public domain or upon any lands owned or leased by or under the
partial, concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United
States, or under contract for purchase or for the acquisition of
which condemnation proceedings have been instituted, or upon any
Indian reservation or lands belonging to or occupied by any tribe
or group of Indians under authority of the United States, or upon
any Indian allotment while the title to the same shall be held in
trust by the Government, or while the same shall remain inalienable
by the allottee without the consent of the United States, shall be
fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or
both.
This section shall not apply in the case of a fire set by an
allottee in the reasonable exercise of his proprietary rights in
the allotment.