ECL 71-0713 · Title 7. Enforcement of Article 9
Recovery for damages from fires
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§ 71-0713. Recovery for damages from fires.
The state, a municipality or any person may sue for and recover damages under section 71-0709 and 71-0711, notwithstanding the distance from the place where the fire was set or started and nottwithstanding the same may have burned over and across several separate, intervening and distinct tracts, parcels or ownerships of land.
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