Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The director of the department
of lands and his assistants, fire wardens, conservation officers and their
deputies and all other peace officers of the state are hereby charged with the
enforcement of the criminal provisions of this chapter and shall have full
power and it shall be their duty to arrest with or without warrant any person
found violating any of the provisions of this chapter or rules and regulations
of the state board of land commissioners after notice made pursuant hereto and
take him before a magistrate and make complaint, and when any such officer
shall have information that such violation has been committed he shall make
similar complaint.
The authority of the fire wardens respecting the control or suppression of
forest fires, summoning help or making arrests for violation of this chapter
or rules and regulations of the board may extend to any adjacent district or
to any part of the state in times of great fire danger, providing that in case
of conflict of authority resulting therefrom, the fire warden in whose
district the fire is located shall have ultimate control. In emergencies fire
wardens may commandeer tools, supplies and equipment and may employ
able-bodied persons or compel assistance of able-bodied persons and neither
the state board of land commissioners, the director, or his delegates, fire
wardens or deputy fire wardens, shall be liable to civil action for trespass
committed in the discharge of their duties; provided, that in performing their
duties they exercise reasonable care to avoid doing unnecessary damage.

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