California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 7 - Timber Harvesting

• Section 4581.
  No person shall conduct timber operations unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted for such operations to the...
• Section 4582.
  The timber harvesting plan shall be filed with the department in writing by a person who owns, leases, or otherwise controls or operates on all...
• Section 4582.3.
  The board shall, on or before May 1, 1985, adopt regulations regarding notice of intent to harvest timber, to be given within two working days...
• Section 4582.4.
  Notice of the filing of timber harvesting plans shall be made by the department to any person who requests, in writing, such notification.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 4582.5.
  Timber harvesting plans shall be applicable to a specific piece of property or properties and shall be based upon such characteristics of the property as...
• Section 4582.6.
  (a) Upon receipt of the timber harvesting plan, the department shall place it, or a true copy thereof, in a file available for public inspection in...
• Section 4582.7.
  (a) The director shall have 30 days from the date that the initial inspection is completed (10 of these days shall follow the date of final...
• Section 4582.71.
  (a) A timber harvesting plan may not be approved if the appropriate regional water quality control board finds, based on substantial evidence, that the timber operations...
• Section 4582.75.
  The rules adopted by the board and the provisions of this chapter shall be the only criteria employed by the director when reviewing timber harvesting...
• Section 4582.8.
  Within 10 days from the date that a timber harvesting plan is determined to be in conformance under Section 4582.7, or within 10 days from...
• Section 4582.9.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Director of Fish and Game or the State Water Resources Control Board may, not later than 10...
• Section 4583.
  A timber harvesting plan shall conform to all standards and rules which are in effect at the time the plan becomes effective. Except for stocking...
• Section 4583.2.
  The registered professional forester who prepared the timber harvesting plan and or any other registered professional forester who is employed by the owner or operator,...
• Section 4583.5.
  If the board finds that the registered professional forester has made a material misstatement in the filing of a timber harvesting plan or report pursuant...
• Section 4584.
  Upon determining that this exemption is consistent with the purposes of this chapter, the board may exempt from this chapter, or portions of this chapter,...
• Section 4584.5.
  Nothing in Section 4584 shall exempt the owner of any timber harvested from registering with the State Board of Equalization or from the payment of...
• Section 4585.
  (a) Within one month after completion of the work described in the timber harvesting plan or nonindustrial timber harvest notice, excluding work for stocking, site preparation,...
• Section 4586.
  Within six months of the receipt of the work completion report specified in Section 4585, the director shall determine, by inspection, whether the work described...
• Section 4587.
  (a) Within five years after completion of timber operations on an area identified in a report submitted pursuant to Section 4585 or nonindustrial timber harvest notice,...
• Section 4588.
  Within six months of the receipt of the stocking report, the director shall determine, by inspection, whether the stocking has been properly completed. If so,...
• Section 4589.
  (a) On or before December 31, 2018, the department and board shall review and submit a report to the Legislature on the trends in the use...
• Section 4590.
  (a) (1) A timber harvesting plan approved on or after July 1, 2012, is effective for a period of not more than five years, unless extended pursuant...
• Section 4591.
  Amendments to the original timber harvesting plan may be submitted detailing proposed changes from the original plan. Substantial deviations from the original plan shall not...
• Section 4591.1.
  The board shall specify by regulation those deviations which may be undertaken by an operator without submission of an amended plan but which must subsequently...
• Section 4592.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a registered professional forester may in an emergency, on behalf of a timber owner or operator, file an...

Last modified: October 22, 2018