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CA Pub Res Code § 4462 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4462.

4462.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:(a) There has been an increase in the number of uncontrolled fires on the wildlands of this state, resulting in destruction of valuable timber and other vegetation, loss of recreational opportunities and wildlife habitat, erosion and damage to streamflow and watersheds, extremely adverse effects on water quality through sedimentation, destruction of soil and loss of nutrients, degradation of air quality, invasions into burned areas of less desirable plant species, and an unacceptable level of hazards to public safety. Further, the increased cost of fire suppression implies the need for alternative methods of fire prevention. (b) The prevention of high-intensity wildland fires may be achieved partly through the reduction of the volume and continuity of flammable vegetation in wildlands by a program of fuel management.(c) Wildland resources management planning and the provision of prescribed burn crews pursuant to this article serves a public purpose and will benefit all the citizens of the state.(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 525, Sec. 3. Operative July 1, 1981, by Sec. 13 of Ch. 525.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4464 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4464.

4464.  Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter:(a) “Hazardous fuel reduction” means the application of practices to wild lands, the primary impact of which to the vegetation is generally limited to the reduction of surface and ladder wild land fuels. These practices include, but are not limited to, prescribed fire, piling by machine or by hand in preparation for burning, thinning, pruning, or grazing. Treatments that reduce crown densities shall be prescribed only for the purpose of impacting fire behavior, and if it can be reasonably concluded, based on the proposed treatment, that the likelihood for the formation of crown fires is reduced.(b) “Nonprofit organization” means any California corporation organized under Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) “Person” means any natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any public agency other than an agency of the federal government.(d) “Prescribed burn crew” means personnel and firefighting equipment of the department that are prepared to contain fire set in a prescribed burning operation and to suppress any fire that escapes during a prescribed burning operation.(e) “Prescribed burning” or “prescribed burning operation” means the planned application and confinement of fire to wild land fuels on lands selected in advance of that application to achieve any of the following objectives:(1) Prevention of high-intensity wild land fires through reduction of the volume and continuity of wild land fuels.(2) Watershed management.(3) Range improvement.(4) Vegetation management.(5) Forest improvement.(6) Wildlife habitat improvement.(7) Air quality maintenance.(f) “Wild land” means any land that is classified as a state responsibility area pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 4125) of Chapter 1 and includes any land having a flammable plant cover. “Wild land” also means any land not classified as a state responsibility area where the geographic location of these lands and accumulation of wild land fuel is such that a wild land fire occurring on these lands would pose a threat to a state responsibility area.(g) “Wild land fire” means any uncontrolled fire burning on wild land.(h) “Wild land fuel” means any timber, brush, grass, or other flammable vegetation, living or dead, standing or down.(Amended by Stats. 2009, 4th Ex. Sess., Ch. 11, Sec. 4. Effective July 28, 2009.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4464.5 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4464.5.

4464.5.  The Legislature finds that, due to the absence of significant forest resources, lands in the Sutter Buttes in the County of Sutter are not likely to become eligible for classification as a state responsibility area under existing statutory criteria, but that those lands possess all other characteristics set forth in Section 4475, and substantial public benefits can be derived from prescribed burning operations on those lands. Accordingly, notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 4464, lands in the Sutter Buttes that have substantial accumulations of wildland fuel, the burning of which in a prescribed burning operation will achieve a combination of the purposes set forth in Section 4475, other than forest improvement, shall be deemed “wildland” for the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 4475).(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 987, Sec. 2. Effective September 13, 1982.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4465 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4465.

4465.  The department shall conduct an experimental program of wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods in two areas of wildlands.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4466 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4466.

4466.  (a) The department shall prepare two model plans for the initial development and implementation of a program for wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods, one of which is appropriate for an area of wildlands in northern California, and one, in southern California. All state agencies, including the Departments of Fish and Game and Conservation and the State Water Resources Control Board, shall cooperate with the department in the creation of the plans, to the end that administrative and environmental considerations are carefully and effectively considered and included in the program.(b) Upon completion of each plan, the director shall submit the plan to the board for its review and approval as to its conformity with the requirements set forth in Section 4467.(c) The department shall apply for funding from nonstate sources for the purpose of carrying out its planning responsibilities pursuant to this article. The department may not commence such planning until such funding is available in an amount sufficient to meet the costs of one model plan.(d) Neither plan may be implemented or used after January 1, 1983.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4467 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4467.

4467.  (a) Each plan shall include, but shall not be limited to, elements regarding wildland fuel management and reduction, air and water quality, water conservation and watershed improvement, soil conservation, wildlife habitat improvement and protection, range and forage improvement, and timberland improvement and protection.(b) The plan shall be prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (commencing with Section 21000) and, when approved, shall constitute the environmental impact report for the implementation of the plan for each area of wildlands designated by the board.(c) The department shall coordinate the development of each plan with the general plan of each county in which the experimental program is conducted and shall, to the maximum extent feasible, conform the plan to the land-use plans and objectives of state and local government.(d) Copies of each plan shall be made available to each county, resource conservation district, and person owning land in the area in which the experimental program is conducted.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4468 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4468.

4468.  During the prescribed burning season, the department shall maintain at least two prescribed burn crews, one each in northern and southern California, for the purpose of providing prescribed burn back-up in the event of an emergency during prescribed burning operations. The department shall prepare a schedule for each prescribed burning season so that the crews will be available to all persons or groups of persons participating in the program during that season. Crews may also be used for other firefighting operations engaged in by the department when not in use in connection with such prescribed burning operations.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4470 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4470.

4470.  The department shall furnish a prescribed burn crew, and assume all costs thereof, to any person or group of persons who own or control land in a wildland area for which a plan has been approved pursuant to this article if such a person or group of persons obtains a brush-burning permit and agrees as a condition of issuance of the permit to comply with the plan in all aspects and to comply with the requirements of Article 3 (commencing with Section 4491) of this chapter, including the assumption of all liability for damage to the property of others.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4471 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 1 - Experimental Program for Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management|Section 4471.

4471.  No person applying for a brush-burning permit pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 4491) of this chapter, applying for a slash-burning permit pursuant to Section 4423, or conducting timber operations pursuant to the Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 (commencing with Section 4511) shall be required to comply with the provisions of this article as a condition to the issuance of a permit or other entitlement pursuant to such provisions.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1118.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4475 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 2 - Department of Forestry Burning Agreements|Section 4475.

4475.  (a) The director may enter into an agreement, including a grant agreement, for prescribed burning or other hazardous fuel reduction that is consistent with this chapter and the regulations of the board with any person to conduct prescribed burning operations and joint prescribed burning operations that serve the public interest and are beneficial to the state. To be considered for the public interest and beneficial to the state, each prescribed burn shall be for any of the following purposes, or any combination of those purposes:(1) Prevention of high-intensity wildland fires through reduction of the volume and continuity of wildland fuels.(2) Watershed management.(3) Range improvement.(4) Vegetation management.(5) Forest improvement.(6) Wildlife habitat improvement.(7) Air quality maintenance.(b) For the purposes of this article and consistent with subdivision (c), “person” includes, but is not limited to, private or nongovernmental entities, Native American tribes, or local, state, and federal public agencies. For purposes of this article, “person” shall also include the plural when the department determines an agreement needs to contain two or more persons as defined in this section.(c) The Legislature finds and declares that historically, the department conducted prescribed burns only utilizing its own personnel and therefore was liable for any damages resulting from the burn. However, to reach the statewide prescribed burn goals identified in the “California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate,” to limit the threat of catastrophic wildfire, and to improve forest health, the department may have a smaller role on individual prescribed burns with a cooperator taking more control as authorized by the act adding this subdivision. This cooperator control may range from creating the burn plan to being the burn boss and conducting the burn.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 624, Sec. 9. (SB 1260) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4479 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 2 - Department of Forestry Burning Agreements|Section 4479.

4479.  (a) Liability for any costs incurred by the department in suppressing any wildland fire originating or spreading from a prescribed burning operation conducted pursuant to an agreement entered into pursuant to this article shall be governed by subdivision (c) of Section 13009 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) This section shall not apply when the department is applying for federal assistance.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 624, Sec. 16. (SB 1260) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4480 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 2 - Department of Forestry Burning Agreements|Section 4480.

4480.  In any area of the state where there are substantially more requests for prescribed burning operations or other hazardous fuel reduction pursuant to this article than can be conducted directly by the department in a single fiscal year, the director may enter into an agreement with private consultants or contractors or with other public agencies for furnishing all or a part of the state’s share of the responsibility for planning the operation, preparing the site, and conducting the prescribed burning or other hazardous fuel reduction. The private consultant or contractor or other public agency, and the work assignments of its employees, shall be supervised by the burn boss when conducting prescribed burning operations, or designated officer as determined by the department when conducting other hazardous fuel reduction, as provided in subdivision (c) of Section 4476.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 624, Sec. 17. (SB 1260) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4483 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 2 - Department of Forestry Burning Agreements|Section 4483.

4483.  (a) To the extent feasible, the board’s Vegetation Treatment Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Report shall serve, in addition to any identified entities in the report, as the programmatic environmental document for prescribed fires initiated by a third party for a public purpose pursuant to Section 4491. This subdivision does not apply to a prescribed fire activity that is exempt from the requirements of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000).(b) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that additional consideration be provided for chaparral and coastal sage scrub plant communities that are being increasingly threatened by fire frequency in excess of their natural fire return patterns due to climate change and human-caused fires.(2) Prescribed burning, mastication, herbicide application, mechanical thinning, or other vegetative treatments of chaparral or sage scrub shall occur only if the department finds that the activity will not cause “type conversion” away from the chaparral and coastal sage scrub currently on site.(3) This subdivision shall be in addition to the requirements in the Vegetation Treatment Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Report.(c) The department may order remediation for any type conversion caused in violation of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b).(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 375, Sec. 12. (AB 642) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4491 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Private Burning of Lands Under Permit|Section 4491.

4491.  (a) Cooperation by the department, as provided in this article, with a person desiring to use prescribed burning as a means of converting brush-covered lands into forage lands or to help meet wildland management goals, which has as its objective the prevention of high intensity wildland fires, watershed management, range improvement, vegetation management, forest improvement, wildlife habitat improvement, restoring ecological integrity and resilience, community wildfire protection, carbon resilience, enhancement of culturally important resources, and maintenance of air quality, or any combination thereof, is declared to be for a public purpose.(b) This article shall be administered by the director or, if responsibility therefor is delegated by the director, by the chief of a county fire department in a county contracting with the department pursuant to Section 4129.(c) In furtherance of this article, the department shall provide advisory service to applicants for permits as to precautions to be taken by the applicant to prevent damage to the property of others by reason of the prescribed burning, and shall provide standby fire protection, to the extent the personnel, fire crews, and firefighting equipment are available.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 93, Sec. 2. (AB 1712) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4492 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Private Burning of Lands Under Permit|Section 4492.

4492.  A person, firm, or corporation, or a group or combination of persons, firms, corporations, or groups, that owns or controls brush-covered land, forest lands, woodland, grassland, shrubland, or any combination thereof within a state responsibility area may apply to the department for permission to utilize prescribed burning for those public purposes set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 4491. The application shall be on a form prescribed by the department and shall contain a description of the lands and other pertinent information that the department may require.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 93, Sec. 3. (AB 1712) Effective January 1, 2018.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4493 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Private Burning of Lands Under Permit|Section 4493.

4493.  (a) Upon receipt of an application, the department shall inspect the land in company with the applicant to determine whether a permit shall be granted, shall prescribe the manner in which the site for the prescribed burning shall be prepared, and shall require any precautions to be taken by the applicant as may be considered reasonable to prevent damage to the property of others by reason of the burning. The precautions shall, if deemed necessary, include the advance preparation of firebreaks and the firefighting equipment and personnel desirable to conduct the prescribed burning.(b) In issuing the permit, the department shall consider the availability of nondepartmental contingency resources when determining whether to require department contingency resources as part of the required precautions.(c) The department shall, to the extent feasible, employ burn suspensions at the unit level, and not at the state or regional level, to not unreasonably restrict prescribed burning operations that are within prescription.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 375, Sec. 13. (AB 642) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4494 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 3 - Private Burning of Lands Under Permit|Section 4494.

4494.  (a) Upon the conclusion of the examination provided for in Section 4493, the department may issue to the applicant a burning permit that shall specify the site preparation requirements and required precautions to be exercised before and during the burning. The issuance of a permit by the department does not relieve the permitholder from the duty of exercising due diligence to avoid damage to property of others in conducting the burning of vegetation as authorized by the permit.(b) Compliance with a permit issued pursuant to this article shall constitute prima facie evidence of due diligence.(c) The department shall develop and deploy an automated system for burn permits issued pursuant to this article.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 375, Sec. 14. (AB 642) Effective January 1, 2022.)
CA Pub Res Code § 4495 (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 7 - Burning of Lands|ARTICLE 4 - Air Quality and Prescribed Burns Program|Section 4495.

4495.  In coordination with local air pollution control and air quality management districts, the department and the State Air Resources Board shall develop and fund a program, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enhance air quality and smoke monitoring, and to provide a public awareness campaign regarding prescribed burns. The program may include, but not be limited to, purchasing new, rapidly deployable air quality monitors. The program shall include adequate funding, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for local air pollution control and air quality management district participation and implementation costs.(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 624, Sec. 20. (SB 1260) Effective January 1, 2019.)