Cal. PRC § 4423
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 4423, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
A person shall not burn any brush, stumps, logs, fallen timber, fallows, slash, grass-covered land, brush-covered land, forest-covered land, or other flammable material, in any state responsibility area, area receiving fire protection by the department by contract, or upon federal lands administered by the United States Department of Agriculture or Department of the Interior, unless the person has a written permit from the department or its duly authorized representative or the authorized federal officer on federal lands administered by the United States Department of Agriculture or of the Interior and in strict accordance with the terms of the permit:
(a) At any time in Zone A.
(b) At any time in Zone B between May 1st and the date the director declares, by proclamation, that the hazardous fire conditions have abated for that year, or at any other time in Zone B during any year when the director has declared, by proclamation, that unusual fire hazard conditions exist in the area.
The issuing agency may require the permittee to contact the agency to determine permit suspension status prior to burning.
(a) At any time in Zone A.
(b) At any time in Zone B between May 1st and the date the director declares, by proclamation, that the hazardous fire conditions have abated for that year, or at any other time in Zone B during any year when the director has declared, by proclamation, that unusual fire hazard conditions exist in the area.
The issuing agency may require the permittee to contact the agency to determine permit suspension status prior to burning.
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