California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 7 - Fire Protection
Subchapter 3 - Fire Hazard
Article 1 - Fire Hazard Severity
Section 1280.00 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 14 CA Code of Regs 1280.00
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024

The following definitions apply to Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations (14 CCR), Division 1.5, Chapter 7, Subchapter 3, Article 1.

Director: Director of the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection or their designee.

Local responsibility area (LRA): Those areas of land classified by the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (Board) where the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing wildfires is not that of the state or federal government, pursuant to Public Resources Code (PRC) section 4125.

Portable document format (PDF): file format used to present and exchange documents reliably, independent of software, hardware, or operating system. PDF is an open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

State Responsibility Area (SRA): As defined in Public Resources Code section 4102.

Very high fire hazard severity zone (VHFHSZ): as defined in Government Code section 51177(i).

1. New section filed 2-19-2020; operative 4-1-2020 (Register 2020, No. 8).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 4202, 4203 and 4204, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 4125, 4201, 4202, 4203 and 4204, Public Resources Code; and Section 51179, Government Code.

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