California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 4 - Forest Practices
Subchapter 6 - Southern Forest District Rules
Article 7 - Hazard Reduction
Section 957.5 - 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 earth and other non-combustible material for effective burning.
(b) The piled slash shall be burned at a safe time during the first wet fall or winter weather, or other safe period following piling and according to laws and regulations. Piles that fail to burn sufficiently to remove the fire hazard shall be further treated for disposal. All reasonable precautions shall be taken to confine such burning to the piled slash.
1.
Renumbering and amendment of former Section 957.5 to Section
957.3 and renumbering and
amendment of former Section
957.4 to Section 957.5 filed
6-19-84; effective upon filing pursuant to Government Code Section
11346.2(d)
(Register 84, No. 25).
2. 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.