Health & Saf. Code, § 13004 · Chapter 1. Liability in Relation to Fires
Health & Saf. Code, § 13004
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
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 threshing machine, or who bales hay by means of a hay press, or harvests by means of a mechanical harvester other agricultural crops which are flammable at the time of harvest, unless he keeps at all times in a convenient place upon each machine or press, one backpack or pump-type water extinguisher of not less than four-gallon capacity fully equipped, filled with water and ready for immediate use.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 900.
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