California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Agricultural Burning

• Section 41850.
  It is the intent of the Legislature, by the enactment of this article, that agricultural burning be reasonably regulated and not be prohibited. The state...
• Section 41851.
  Section 41800 shall not apply to burning regulated pursuant to this article.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)
• Section 41852.
  No person knowingly shall set or permit agricultural burning unless he has a valid permit from the agency designated by the state board to issue...
• Section 41852.5.
  The state board may, after holding a public hearing, authorize an exemption from the permit requirement of Section 41852 for a district, or a portion...
• Section 41853.
  The state board shall designate public fire protection agencies or other equivalent agencies to issue permits under subdivision (a) of Section 41852, and shall adopt...
• Section 41853.5.
  (a)  No permit shall be issued pursuant to Section 41853 to a person for the burning of solid waste which is produced from the ginning...
• Section 41854.
  (a)  No permit issued pursuant to Section 41853 shall be valid for any day during which agricultural burning is prohibited by the state board pursuant...
• Section 41855.
  The state board shall determine and designate from meteorological data the days when agricultural burning shall be prohibited within each air basin.(Added by Stats. 1975,...
• Section 41855.5.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no permit may be issued to a person to burn any of the following categories of agricultural waste...
• Section 41855.6.
  The district may postpone the commencement dates set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 41855.5 for any category of agricultural waste or crop described if...
• Section 41856.
  The state board shall promulgate guidelines for the regulation and control of agricultural burning for each of the air basins established by the state board.(Added...
• Section 41857.
  The guidelines promulgated by the state board shall be based on meteorological data, the nature and volume of materials to be burned, and the probable...
• Section 41858.
  In adopting such guidelines, the state board shall consider their economic and technical feasibility, including their probable effect on agricultural production in the air basin...
• Section 41859.
  The state board shall continuously review the guidelines promulgated under this article, and may modify, repeal, or alter such guidelines if scientific and technological data...
• Section 41860.
  The state board shall adopt and publish a list of orchard and citrus grove heaters which it finds produce no more than one gram per...
• Section 41861.
  No burning shall be conducted for the improvement of land for wildlife or game habitat until the person desiring to conduct such burning obtains from...
• Section 41862.
  A district may issue a permit to authorize agricultural burning on days designated by the state board pursuant to Section 41855 as nonburning days when...
• Section 41863.
  Each basinwide coordinating council and district shall, as part of the implementation plans and programs prepared pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 41600), include...
• Section 41864.
  The provisions of this article shall not supersede any rule or regulation of any district, which rule or regulation was in effect for five or...
• Section 41865.
  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Connelly-Areias-Chandler Rice Straw Burning Reduction Act of 1991.(b) As used in this section:(1) “Sacramento Valley Air...
• Section 41865.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 7550.5 of the Government Code, on or before January 1, 2001, the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with the Department of Food...
• Section 41866.
  The Sacramento Valley Basinwide Air Pollution Control Council may impose, and may require that districts within the Sacramento Valley Air Basin collect, a fee not...

Last modified: October 22, 2018