California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 3 - Responsibility for Fire Protection

• Section 4125.
  (a) The board shall classify all lands within the state, without regard to any classification of lands made by or for any federal agency or purpose,...
• Section 4126.
  The board shall include within state responsibility areas all of the following lands:(a) Lands covered wholly or in part by forests or by trees producing or...
• Section 4127.
  The board shall not include within state responsibility areas any of the following lands:(a) Lands owned or controlled by the federal government or any agency of...
• Section 4128.
  In establishing boundaries of state responsibility areas, the board may, for purposes of administrative convenience, designate roads, pipelines, streams, or other recognizable landmarks as arbitrary...
• Section 4129.
  The board of supervisors of any county may provide by ordinance that the county elects to assume responsibility for the prevention and suppression of all...
• Section 4129.1.
  When the incorporation of a city removes land from a state responsibility area and the county continues to provide residential fire service for the newly...
• Section 4130.
  The board shall classify all lands within state responsibility areas into types of land based on cover, beneficial use of water from watersheds, probable damage...
• Section 4131.
  In the preparation of budgets for fire protection, the total funds available or estimated to be available shall be allocated to the areas to be...
• Section 4132.
  In those counties assuming responsibility pursuant to Section 4129 for fire protection and suppression in the lands thus classified within the respective counties, there shall...
• Section 4133.
  The department shall, with the approval of the Department of General Services, for periods not to exceed three years, enter into a contract with any...
• Section 4134.
  Any such contract shall provide for payment to such county, as compensation for the assumption of the duty, power, authority and responsibility for fire protection...
• Section 4135.
  Sections 4129 to 4135, inclusive, do not deprive the department of the power and duty to require that the money paid by the department under...
• Section 4136.
  (a) A transferor of real property that is located within a state responsibility area determined by the board, pursuant to Section 4125, shall disclose to any...
• Section 4137.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “fire prevention activities” include, but are not limited to, all of the following:(1) Fire prevention education.(2) Hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management.(3) Fire...

Last modified: October 22, 2018