California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 4 - Forest Practices
Subchapter 5 - Northern Forest District Rules
Article 7 - Hazard Reduction
Section 937.5 - Piling and Burning
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
When the option of burning piles or Concentrations of Slash is chosen to meet the slash treatment requirements as specified in these Rules, such burning shall be done as follows:
(a) Piles shall be sufficiently free of soil and other noncombustible material for effective burning.
(b) The piles slash shall be burned at a safe time following the first wet fall or winter weather or other safe periods and according to laws and regulations. Piles that fail to burn sufficiently to remove the fire hazard shall be repiled and burned in the manner aforesaid or treated to eliminate the fire hazard. All necessary precautions shall be taken to confine the burning to the piled slash.
1.
Renumbering and amendment of former section
937.3 to section 937.5 filed
6-19-84; effective upon filing pursuant to Government Code section
11346.2(d)
(Register 84, No. 25).
2. Amendment of section filed 8-5-91;
operative 8-5-91 (Register 91, No. 50).
3. Change without regulatory
effect amending section filed 12-20-2017 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2017, No. 51).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 4551 and 4562, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 4423, 4513, 4551.5 and 4562, Public Resources Code.
