Idaho Code § 38-402
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38-402 PLANS, PROGRAMS AND RULES — APPROVAL BY STATE BOARDS.
Official statutory text
38-402. Plans, programs and rules — Approval by state boards. The director of the department of lands is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt plans, programs and rules for the management and reduction of fire hazards for the protection of forest resources, any of which hazards are created by insects, disease, other natural causes, or by any person engaged in harvesting timber, ties, logs, poles, posts, cordwood, pulpwood, or any other forest product or potential forest product upon lands within the state of Idaho.
All such plans, programs and rules for the supervision, management, control, and reduction of fire hazards for the protection of forest resources to be applied in any forest protective district before becoming effective shall be submitted to, and approved by the state board of land commissioners, and all contracts or agreements entered into by the director of the department of lands with any owner or owners, operator or operators of any forest lands covered by sections 38-401—38-410, Idaho Code, before becoming effective, shall be submitted to, and be approved by the state board of land commissioners.
History:
[38-402, added 1945, ch. 74, sec. 2, p. 108; am. 1957, ch. 183, sec. 2, p. 357; am. 1969, ch. 89, sec. 2, p. 296; am. 1974, ch. 17, sec. 13, p. 308.]
All such plans, programs and rules for the supervision, management, control, and reduction of fire hazards for the protection of forest resources to be applied in any forest protective district before becoming effective shall be submitted to, and approved by the state board of land commissioners, and all contracts or agreements entered into by the director of the department of lands with any owner or owners, operator or operators of any forest lands covered by sections 38-401—38-410, Idaho Code, before becoming effective, shall be submitted to, and be approved by the state board of land commissioners.
History:
[38-402, added 1945, ch. 74, sec. 2, p. 108; am. 1957, ch. 183, sec. 2, p. 357; am. 1969, ch. 89, sec. 2, p. 296; am. 1974, ch. 17, sec. 13, p. 308.]
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