California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1.5 - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Chapter 9.8 - Chaparral Management
Article 6 - Resource Protection
Section 1569.4 - Erosion Control

(a) Activities on identified geologic hazard areas shall be avoided.

(b) Brush removed from slopes with a bulldozer shall be windrowed along the contour. Windrowed brush may be disposed of by burning or any other appropriate methods prior to planting or seeding.

(c) Heavy equipment shall not be operated on the project area when soils are approaching field capacity, or when such activity would cause excessive soil damage.

(d) Heavy equipment shall not be operated on known potential or active slide areas.

(e) Planned type conversions from shrub species to grass shall be limited to situations that will neither cause accelerated erosion, nor contribute to landslides or other mass wasting, and that are edaphically appropriate.