[ Act No. 3314, December 03, 1926 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.

Be it enacted by the Senate omd House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-one of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2751. Unlawful destruction of public forest.— It shall be unlawful for any person to make a caingin in a public forest or in any  manner to destroy such forest or part thereof, or forest products growing therein, otherwise than upon lawful authority. It shall also be unlawful for any person negligently to permit a fire which has been setupon his  own premises to be communicated, with destructive results, to any public forest. A violation of this section shall be punished by a fine equivalent to twice the regular Government charges upon the timber or other forest product so unlawfully destroyed, and subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, December 3, 1926.

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