California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 2 - Prohibited Activities

• Section 4421.
  A person shall not set fire or cause fire to be set to any forest, brush, or other flammable material which is on any land...
• Section 4422.
  A person shall not do any of the following:(a) Willfully or knowingly allow fire to burn uncontrolled on land which he owns or controls, or to...
• Section 4423.
  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...
• Section 4423.1.
  Burning under permit by any person on public or private lands, except within incorporated cities, may be suspended, restricted, or otherwise prohibited by proclamation. Any...
• Section 4423.2.
  (a) Whenever the burning under permit has been suspended , restricted, or prohibited by proclamation pursuant to Section 4423.1, the officer having jurisdiction may issue a...
• Section 4423.3.
  The use of a campfire is not restricted or prohibited by a proclamation issued pursuant to Section 4423.1, unless specifically restricted or prohibited in that...
• Section 4423.4.
  Outdoor smoking is not restricted or prohibited by a proclamation issued pursuant to Section 4423.1, unless specifically restricted or prohibited in that or a subsequent...
• Section 4423.5.
  Use of open fire or burning under permit within an area closed by proclamation pursuant to the provisions of Section 4423.1, except as provided in...
• Section 4425.
  Any violation of the terms of a burning permit issued pursuant to Section 4423, a restricted temporary burning permit issued pursuant to Section 4423.2, or...
• Section 4426.
  A person shall not set a backfire, or cause a backfire to be set, except under the direct supervision or permission of a state or...
• Section 4427.
  During any time of the year when burning permits are required in an area pursuant to this article, no person shall use or operate any...
• Section 4428.
  No person, except any member of an emergency crew or except the driver or owner of any service vehicle owned or operated by or for,...
• Section 4429.
  During any time of the year when burning permits are required in an area pursuant to this article, at any camp maintained in such area...
• Section 4430.
  During any time of the year when burning permits are required in an area pursuant to this article, a person, copartnership, firm, corporation or company,...
• Section 4431.
  During any time of the year when burning permits are required in an area pursuant to this article, no person shall use or operate or...
• Section 4432.
  A person shall not leave a campfire, kindled or attended by him, burning or unextinguished unless one of the following requirements is satisfied:(a) He leaves some...
• Section 4433.
  A person shall not light, maintain, or use a campfire upon any brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or forest-covered land which is the property of another...
• Section 4434.
  The escape of any campfire from the control of any person who is maintaining the campfire is prima facie evidence that such person was negligent...
• Section 4435.
  If any fire originates from the operation or use of any engine, machine, barbecue, incinerator, railroad rolling stock, chimney, or any other device which may...
• Section 4436.
  A person shall not refuse or fail to render assistance in combating a forest, brush, or grass fire at the summons of the department, or...
• Section 4437.
  (a) Outside the exterior boundaries of cities, every processor of forest products shall exercise due diligence in the disposal of flammable material incident to the processing,...
• Section 4438.
  Flammable forest product waste material may be disposed of by means of fire in an enclosed device effective in preventing the spread of sparks or...
• Section 4439.
  (a) Flammable forest product waste material may be disposed of by means of fire in an area which is cleared of grass, grain, brush, slash, litter,...
• Section 4440.
  (a) Flammable forest product residue may be accumulated in piles, within any state responsibility area, within any area receiving fire protection by the director by contract,...
• Section 4441.
  Any person who permits or allows accumulation of waste material or residue in violation of the provisions of Sections 4437 to 4440, inclusive, is guilty...
• Section 4442.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no person shall use, operate, or allow to be used or operated, any internal combustion engine which uses...
• Section 4442.5.
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, lease, or rent to any person any internal combustion engine subject to Section 4442 or 4443, and not...
• Section 4442.6.
  (a)  A person shall not sell, offer for sale, lease, or rent to a person any equipment that is powered by an internal combustion engine...
• Section 4443.
  No person shall use, operate, or cause to be operated on any forest-covered land, brush-covered land, or grass-covered land any handheld portable, multiposition, internal-combustion engine...
• Section 4445.
  A person shall not fire or cause to be fired from any rifle or other device capable of discharging ammunition, any bullet, projectile, or other...
• Section 4446.
  Every person shall exercise reasonable care in the disposal of flammable material so that the material does not cause the inception of or spread of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018