(1) For purposes of preventing loss, damage, and injury to property, any person who intends to set fire, or to cause fire to be set, to any tree, bush, brushwood, rubbish, guinea or other grass, trash, or cane piece, shall first apply to the nearest justice of the peace for permission, and shall prove, to the satisfaction of such justice, that he or she has given notice to all the neighbours possessing or in charge of property which might be damaged or destroyed by such fire, if carelessly or improperly used.