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CA Pub Res Code § 4291.6 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4291.6.

4291.6.  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the use of trained volunteers to assist homeowners and fire agencies in achieving compliance with defensible space requirements will provide multiple benefits, including all of the following:(A) Creating a significant public benefit by reducing the risk of the spread of wildfire.(B) Creating significant savings for fire agencies by increasing general compliance with defensible space requirements, and thereby reducing the volume of inspections required by public agencies.(C) Allowing fire agencies to focus their defensible space regulatory enforcement on landowners who are not in compliance after suggestions for voluntary compliance from trained volunteers.(2) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the department do both of the following:(A) Establish a pilot program using trained volunteers with any costs for the pilot project coming from the existing funds made available to the department from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code.(B) Consider using the services of the California Fire Science Consortium and the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity program at the Natural Resources Agency to implement this section.(b) The department shall develop and implement a training program to train individuals to support and augment the department in its defensible space and home hardening assessment and public education efforts. The training program shall do both of the following:(1) Provide for consistent training for third-party assessors who shall function to provide nonregulatory assistance to homeowners to reduce fire risk and to achieve compliance with defensible space requirements.(2) Ensure that all defensible space and home hardening assessment and education programs undertaken by the department and by third parties are conducted to the same standard and use coordinated messaging, including messages at www.readyforwildfire.org or a successor internet website, as updated by the department.(c) Upon an individual’s successful completion of the training program, the department shall issue a certification of completion to the individual.(d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed.(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 382, Sec. 11. (SB 63) Effective January 1, 2022. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, by its own provisions.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4292 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4292.

4292.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 4296, any person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line upon any mountainous land, or forest-covered land, brush-covered land, or grass-covered land shall, during such times and in such areas as are determined to be necessary by the director or the agency which has primary responsibility for fire protection of such areas, maintain around and adjacent to any pole or tower which supports a switch, fuse, transformer, lightning arrester, line junction, or dead end or corner pole, a firebreak which consists of a clearing of not less than 10 feet in each direction from the outer circumference of such pole or tower. This section does not, however, apply to any line which is used exclusively as telephone, telegraph, telephone or telegraph messenger call, fire or alarm line, or other line which is classed as a communication circuit by the Public Utilities Commission. The director or the agency which has primary fire protection responsibility for the protection of such areas may permit exceptions from the requirements of this section which are based upon the specific circumstances involved.(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4293 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4293.

4293.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 4294 to 4296, inclusive, any person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line upon any mountainous land, or in forest-covered land, brush-covered land, or grass-covered land shall, during such times and in such areas as are determined to be necessary by the director or the agency which has primary responsibility for the fire protection of such areas, maintain a clearance of the respective distances which are specified in this section in all directions between all vegetation and all conductors which are carrying electric current:(a) For any line which is operating at 2,400 or more volts, but less than 72,000 volts, four feet.(b) For any line which is operating at 72,000 or more volts, but less than 110,000 volts, six feet.(c) For any line which is operating at 110,000 or more volts, 10 feet.In every case, such distance shall be sufficiently great to furnish the required clearance at any position of the wire, or conductor when the adjacent air temperature is 120 degrees Fahrenheit, or less. Dead trees, old decadent or rotten trees, trees weakened by decay or disease and trees or portions thereof that are leaning toward the line which may contact the line from the side or may fall on the line shall be felled, cut, or trimmed so as to remove such hazard. The director or the agency which has primary responsibility for the fire protection of such areas may permit exceptions from the requirements of this section which are based upon the specific circumstances involved.(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1300.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4294 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4294.

4294.  A clearing to obtain line clearance is not required if self-supporting aerial cable is used. Forked trees, leaning trees, and any other growth which may fall across the line and break it shall, however, be removed.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4295 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4295.

4295.  A person is not required by Section 4292 or 4293 to maintain any clearing on any land if such person does not have the legal right to maintain such clearing, nor do such sections require any person to enter upon or to damage property which is owned by any other person without the consent of the owner of the property.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4295.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4295.5.

4295.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 4295, a person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains an electrical transmission or distribution line may traverse land as necessary, regardless of land ownership or express permission to traverse land from the landowner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the landowner, to prune trees to maintain clearances pursuant to Section 4293, and to abate, by pruning or removal, any hazardous, dead, rotten, diseased, or structurally defective live trees. The clearances obtained when the pruning is performed shall be at the full discretion of the person that owns, controls, operates, or maintains any electrical transmission or distribution line, but shall be no less than what is required in Section 4293. This section shall apply to both high fire threat districts, as determined by the California Public Utilities Commission pursuant to its rulemaking authority, and to state responsibility areas.(b) Subdivision (a) does not exempt a person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains an electrical transmission or distribution line from liability for damages for the removal of vegetation that is not covered by an easement granted to the person for the electrical transmission or distribution line.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 133, Sec. 69. (SB 272) Effective July 23, 2021.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4296 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4296.

4296.  Sections 4292 and 4293 do not apply if the transmission or distribution line voltage is 750 volts or less.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4296.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4296.5.

4296.5.  (a) Any person or corporation operating a railroad on forest, brush, or grass-covered land shall, if ordered by the director or the agency having primary responsibility for fire protection of the area, destroy, remove, or modify so as not to be flammable any vegetation or other flammable material defined by regulation of the director to be a fire hazard on the railroad right-of-way. The director shall adopt regulations establishing fire prevention hazard reduction standards for broad geographic areas by fuel type, slope, and potential for ignition from hot or flaming exhaust, carbon particles, hot metal, burning signal devices, burning tobacco, and other similar potential sources of ignition.(b) The order to destroy, remove, or modify vegetation or other flammable material shall specify the location of the hazard to be destroyed, removed, or modified within the right-of-way, the width of the hazard which shall not exceed the width of the right-of-way, and the time within which compliance with the order is required.(c) The director or the agency having primary responsibility for fire protection of the area shall allow a reasonable period of time for compliance with an order to destroy, remove, or modify vegetation or other flammable material.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 698.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4297 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4297.

4297.  Upon the showing of the director that the unrestricted use of any grass-covered land, grain-covered land, brush-covered land, or forest-covered land is, in the judgment of the director, a menace to life or property due to conditions tending to cause or allow the rapid spread of fires that may occur on the lands or because of the inaccessible character of the lands, the Governor through the director, may, by a proclamation, which declares that condition and designates the area to which, and the period during which the proclamation shall apply, require that the area be closed to hunting and fishing and to entry by a person except a person that is within one of the following classes:(a) Owners and lessees of land in the area.(b) Bona fide residents in the area.(c) Persons engaged in some bona fide business, trade, occupation, or calling in the area and persons employed by them in connection with that business, trade, occupation, or calling.(d) Authorized agents or employees of a public utility entering the area for the purpose of operating or maintaining public utility works or equipment within the area.(e) Members of an organized firefighting force.(f) A federal, state or local officer in the performance of their duties.(g) Persons traveling on public roads or highways through the area.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 133, Sec. 70. (SB 272) Effective July 23, 2021.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4298 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4298.

4298.  The proclamation by the Governor shall be released to the wire news services in the state, and shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in each county which contains any lands covered by the proclamation. Notice of closure shall also be posted on trails or roads entering the area covered by the proclamation. The closure shall be effective upon issuance of the proclamation by the Governor. Each notice shall clearly set forth the area to be subject to closure and the effective date of such closure. The closure shall remain in full force and effect until the Governor shall by order terminate it. The notice of such termination shall follow the same procedure by which such closure was effected. The order of termination shall be effected upon issuance.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4299 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 3 - Mountainous, Forest-, Brush- and Grass-Covered Lands|Section 4299.

4299.   A person who violates Section 4297 or 4298 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 days nor more than 90 days or both the fine and imprisonment. All state and county law enforcement officers shall enforce orders of closure.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 90, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2005.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4331 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Restricted Areas|Section 4331.

4331.  Except at the places or during the period of time designated by regulations adopted pursuant to the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, a person shall not smoke or build a campfire upon national forest land unless the person has a written permit to do so issued by an authorized agent of the Secretary of Agriculture and possesses the firefighting tools that are required by the permit.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 133, Sec. 71. (SB 272) Effective July 23, 2021.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4332 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Restricted Areas|Section 4332.

4332.  Whenever it is necessary in the interests of public peace or safety, the director, with the consent of the Governor, may order closed to camping, hunting, trapping, or the use of firearms, any area in any state park or state forest. The director shall post and enforce such closure order in such area.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4333 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 4 - Restricted Areas|Section 4333.

4333.  Any order which is issued pursuant to Section 4332 shall be published twice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in any county that is affected by the order. The publication shall be separated by a period of not less than one week and not more than two weeks. The order shall also be posted in such public places in each county as the director may direct, and along roads and trails which pass through such areas declared to be closed to camping or entry.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1144.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4371 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 5 - Rubbish Dumps|Section 4371.

4371.  The definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter.(a) “Fire protection agency” means the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection on all lands designated as state responsibility areas pursuant to Section 4125, and it means the applicable fire protection district, service district, county fire department, or federal agency on all other lands.(b) “Solid waste” means solid waste as defined in Section 40191.(c) “Solid waste facility” means a solid waste facility as defined in Section 40194.(d) “Flammable material” does not include any structure or building maintained as an integral part of any solid waste facility.(Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 427, Sec. 137. Effective January 1, 1993.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4372 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 5 - Rubbish Dumps|Section 4372.

4372.  A person shall maintain any solid waste facility outside of the exterior boundaries of any city in strict accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed by Sections 4373 and 4374.(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1333, Sec. 5.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4373 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 5 - Rubbish Dumps|Section 4373.

4373.  Any solid waste facility, for which a permit is required pursuant to Section 66796.30 of the Government Code, shall be maintained with a clearance of flammable material for a minimum distance of 45.7 meters (150 feet) from the periphery of any exposed flammable solid waste.(a) Any structure, building, or part of any structure or building located within 45.7 meters (150 feet) of the periphery of any exposed flammable solid waste shall also be maintained with a clearance of flammable material for a minimum of 45.7 meters (150 feet) from the periphery of the structure or building.(b) Sound and living trees may be left standing within the areas required to be cleared of flammable material, provided the following requirements are met: (1) Wildfire cannot travel into the canopy of any tree left standing.(2) Any tree left standing does not pose a fire safety threat or prevent fire equipment access to and near the exposed flammable solid waste.(3) All dead limbs, and all limbs within 3 meters (10 feet) of the ground are removed from any tree left standing.(c) Selected and isolated shrubs may remain within the areas required to be cleared of flammable material if all dead material is removed and each shrub is trimmed up so that fire cannot travel through the shrub canopy or pose a fire safety threat.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1333, Sec. 7.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4374 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 5 - Rubbish Dumps|Section 4374.

4374.  Any solid waste facility, for which a permit is not required pursuant to Section 66796.31 of the Government Code, shall be maintained with a clearance of flammable material for a minimum distance of 9.45 meters (30 feet) from the periphery of any exposed flammable solid waste.(a) Any structure, building, or part of a structure or building which is located within 9.45 meters (30 feet) of the periphery of any exposed flammable solid waste shall also be maintained with a clearance of flammable material for a minimum distance of 9.45 meters (30 feet) from the periphery of the structure or building.(b) The fire protection agency may, in writing, require additional minimum flammable clearance provisions not to exceed any of the minimum clearance provisions of Section 4373. A reasonable time for compliance with the additional clearance provisions shall be specified in the written notice.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1333, Sec. 9.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4376 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 5 - Rubbish Dumps|Section 4376.

4376.  A person who maintains a solid waste facility in violation of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished for a first conviction by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), and, for a second or subsequent conviction within five years of a prior conviction of a violation of this chapter, by a fine not less than five hundred dollars ($500) or more than two thousand dollars ($2,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 30 days, or both that fine and imprisonment. Each and every day of violation is a separate and distinct offense.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 90, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4789 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 12 - Forest and Rangeland Resources Assessment and Policy Act of 1977|Section 4789.

4789.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Forest and Rangeland Resources Assessment and Policy Act of 1977.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 835, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4789.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Resources Code - PRC|DIVISION 4 - FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|PART 2 - PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS|CHAPTER 12 - Forest and Rangeland Resources Assessment and Policy Act of 1977|Section 4789.1.

4789.1.  The Legislature finds and declares as follows:(a) The forest resources of California provide vitally important economic and environmental benefits to the people of California.(b) Demands on forest resources in California are expected to increase significantly in the next decades.(c) Forest resources in California are limited.(d) Better use of forest resources can result where there is good information as to anticipated needs and constraints and the potentials for meeting such needs consistent with Section 4513.(e) The necessary information is not now available and should be developed.(f) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide for the assessment of California’s forest resources in order to develop and implement forest resources policies for the state.(Added by renumbering Section 4801 by Stats. 1980, Ch. 676, Sec. 268.)