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Criminal penalties: wildfires.

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CA AB 336 · Assembly Bill · 2025–2026

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Sponsors
11
Latest action
Apr 2, 2025

What it does

Existing law prohibits unlawfully causing a fire by recklessly setting fire to, burning, or causing to be burned, any structure, forest land, or property. A violation of this prohibition that causes great bodily injury, that causes an inhabited structure or property to burn, or that causes a fire of a structure or forest land is punishable either as a felony or a misdemeanor.

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