CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 3020Introduced by Assembly Member FloraFebruary 16, 2018 An act to amend Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code, relating to burning of lands. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 3020, as introduced, Flora. Wildland: fire protection: prescribed burns.The Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management Act of 1978 requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct an experimental program of wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods in 2 areas of wildlands, as provided. Existing law establishes definitions to govern the provisions of the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of law relating to the definitions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 3020Introduced by Assembly Member FloraFebruary 16, 2018 An act to amend Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code, relating to burning of lands. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 3020, as introduced, Flora. Wildland: fire protection: prescribed burns.The Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management Act of 1978 requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct an experimental program of wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods in 2 areas of wildlands, as provided. Existing law establishes definitions to govern the provisions of the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of law relating to the definitions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 3020
Introduced by Assembly Member FloraFebruary 16, 2018
Introduced by Assembly Member Flora
February 16, 2018
An act to amend Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code, relating to burning of lands.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3020, as introduced, Flora. Wildland: fire protection: prescribed burns.
The Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management Act of 1978 requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct an experimental program of wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods in 2 areas of wildlands, as provided. Existing law establishes definitions to govern the provisions of the act.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of law relating to the definitions.
The Wildland Fire Protection and Resources Management Act of 1978 requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to conduct an experimental program of wildland resources management through prescribed burning and other methods in 2 areas of wildlands, as provided. Existing law establishes definitions to govern the provisions of the act.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions of law relating to the definitions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
SECTION 1. Section 4464 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:
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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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.
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 a California corporation organized under pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
(c) Person means any a natural person, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, company, nonprofit organization, or a combination of those, or any a 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 an 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.