Document Citation: Cal Pub Resources Code § 4475

Header:
CALIFORNIA CODES ANNOTATED
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
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 Contracts

Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
Cal Pub Resources Code § 4475 (2011)

§ 4475. Agreements with landowner or public agency

(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 either the owner or any other person who has legal control of any property or any public agency with regulatory or natural resource management authority over any property that is included within any wild land for any of the following purposes, or any combination of those purposes:

(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.

(b) An agreement shall not be entered into pursuant to this section unless the director determines that the public benefits estimated to be derived from the prescribed burning or other hazardous fuel reduction pursuant to the agreement will be equal to or greater than the foreseeable damage that could result from the prescribed burning or other hazardous fuel reduction.