Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 76 Forests And Forest Products - Chapter 76.04 Forest Protection

76.04.005 Definitions
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Additional fire hazard" means a condition ...

76.04.015 Fire protection powers and duties of department -- Enforcement -- Investigation -- Administration
(1) The department may, at its discretion, appoint trained personnel possessing the necessary qualifications to carry out the duties and supporting functions of the department ...

76.04.016 Fire prevention and suppression capacity -- Duties owed to public in general -- Legislative intent
The department when acting, in good faith, in its statutory capacity as a fire prevention and suppression agency, is carrying out duties owed to the ...

76.04.025 Federal funds
The department shall receive and disburse any and all moneys contributed, allotted, or paid by the United States under the authority of any act of ...

76.04.035 Wardens -- Appointment -- Duties
(1) The department may appoint any of its employees as wardens, at the times and localities as it considers the public welfare demands, within any ...

76.04.045 Rangers -- Appointment -- Ex officio rangers -- Compensation
(1) All Washington state patrol officers, fish and wildlife officers, deputy state fire marshals, and state park rangers, while in their respective jurisdictions, shall be ...

76.04.055 Service of notices
Any notice required by law to be served by the department, warden, or ranger shall be sufficient if a written or printed copy thereof is ...

76.04.065 Arrests without warrants
Department employees appointed as wardens, persons commissioned as rangers, and all police officers may arrest persons violating this chapter, without warrant, as prescribed by law.[1986 ...

76.04.075 Rules -- Penalty
Any person who violates any of the orders or rules adopted under this chapter for the protection of forests from fires is guilty of a ...

76.04.085 Penalty for violations
Unless specified otherwise, violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor and subject to the penalties for a misdemeanor under RCW 9A.20.021.[1986 ...

76.04.095 Cooperative protection
When any responsible protective agency or agencies composed of timber owners other than the state agrees to undertake systematic forest protection in cooperation with the ...

76.04.105 Contracts for protection and development
The department may enter into contracts and undertakings with private corporations for the protection and development of the forest lands within the state, subject to ...

76.04.115 Articles of incorporation -- Requirements
Before any private corporation may enter into any contract under RCW 76.04.105, there shall be incorporated into the articles of incorporation or charter of such ...

76.04.125 Requisites of contract
Any undertaking for the protection and development of the forest lands of the state under RCW 76.04.105 shall be regulated and controlled by a contract ...

76.04.135 Cooperative agreements -- Public agencies
(1) For the purpose of promoting and facilitating cooperation between fire protection agencies and to more adequately protect life, property, and the natural resources of ...

76.04.145 Forest fire advisory board
(1) There is hereby created a forest fire advisory board, consisting of seven members who shall represent private and public forest landowners and other interested ...

76.04.155 Fire fighting -- Employment -- Assistance
(1) The department may employ a sufficient number of persons to extinguish or prevent the spreading of any fire that may be in danger of ...

76.04.165 Legislative declaration -- Forest protection zones
(1) The legislature finds and declares that forest lands within the state are increasingly being used for residential purposes; that the risk to life and ...

76.04.167 Legislative declaration -- Equitable sharing of forest fire protection costs -- Coordinated forest fire protection and suppression
(1) The legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Forest wild fires are a threat to public health and safety and can cause catastrophic damage ...

76.04.175 Fire suppression equipment--Comparison of costs
(1) The department shall, by June 1 of each year, establish a list of fire suppression equipment, such as portable showers, kitchens, water tanks, dozers, ...

76.04.177 Fire suppression equipment--Requirement to utilize private equipment
Before constructing or purchasing any equipment listed in RCW 76.04.175(1) for wildfire suppression, the department shall compare the per use cost of the equipment to ...

76.04.205 Burning permits
(1) Except in certain areas designated by the department or as permitted under rules adopted by the department, a person shall have a valid written ...

76.04.215 Burning mill wood waste -- Arresters
(1) It is unlawful for anyone manufacturing lumber or shingles, or other forest products, to destroy wood waste material by burning within one-fourth of one ...

76.04.235 Dumping mill waste, forest debris -- Penalty
(1) No person may dump mill waste from forest products, or forest debris of any kind, in quantities that the department declares to constitute a ...

76.04.246 Use of blasting fuse
It is unlawful to use fuse for blasting on any area of logging slash or area of actual logging operation without a permit during the ...

76.04.305 Closed to entry -- Designation
(1) When, in the opinion of the department, any forest land is particularly exposed to fire danger, the department may designate such land as a ...

76.04.315 Suspension of burning permits/privileges
In times and localities of unusual fire danger, the department may issue an order suspending any or all burning permits or privileges authorized by RCW ...

76.04.325 Closure of forest operations or forest lands
(1) When in the opinion of the department weather conditions arise which present an extreme fire hazard, whereby life and property may be endangered, the ...

76.04.405 Steam, internal combustion, or electrical engines and other spark-emitting equipment regulated
It is unlawful during the closed season for any person to operate any steam, internal combustion, or electric engine, or any other spark-emitting equipment or ...

76.04.415 Penalty for violations -- Work stoppage notice
(1) Every person upon receipt of written notice issued by the department that such person has or is violating any of the provisions of RCW ...

76.04.425 Unauthorized entry into sealed fire tool box
It is unlawful to enter into a sealed fire tool box without authorization.[1986 c 100 § 26.] ...

76.04.435 Deposit of fire or live coals
No person operating a railroad may permit to be deposited by any employee, and no one may deposit fire or live coals, upon the right-of-way ...

76.04.445 Reports of fire
(1) Any person engaged in any activity on forest lands shall immediately report to the department, in person or by radio, telephone, or telegraph, any ...

76.04.455 Lighted material, etc. -- Receptacles in conveyances
(1) It is unlawful during the closed season for any person to throw away any lighted tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, matches, fireworks, charcoal, or other lighted ...

76.04.465 Certain snags to be felled currently with logging
Standing dead trees constitute a substantial deterrent to effective fire control action in forest areas, but are also an important and essential habitat for many ...

76.04.475 Reimbursement for costs of suppression action
Any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, obligated to take suppression action on any forest fire is entitled to reimbursement for reasonable costs incurred, ...

76.04.486 Escaped slash burns -- Obligations
(1) All personnel and equipment required by the burning permit issued for a slash burn may be required by the department, at the permittee's expense, ...

76.04.495 Negligent starting of fires or allowance of extreme fire hazard or debris -- Liability -- Recovery of reasonable expenses -- Lien
(1) Any person, firm, or corporation: (a) Whose negligence is responsible for the starting or existence of a fire which spreads on forest land; or ...

76.04.600 Owners to protect forests
Every owner of forest land in the state of Washington shall furnish or provide, during the season of the year when there is danger of ...

76.04.610 Forest fire protection assessment
(1)(a) If any owner of forest land within a forest protection zone neglects or fails to provide adequate fire protection as required by RCW 76.04.600, ...

76.04.620 State funds -- Loans -- Recovery of funds from the landowner contingency forest fire suppression account
Biennial general fund appropriations to the department of natural resources normally provide funds for the purpose of paying the emergency fire costs and expenses incurred ...

76.04.630 Landowner contingency forest fire suppression account -- Expenditures -- Assessments
There is created a landowner contingency forest fire suppression account in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only as provided in ...

76.04.650 Disposal of forest debris -- Permission to allow trees to fall on another's land
Everyone clearing land or clearing right-of-way for railroad, public highway, private road, ditch, dike, pipe or wire line, or for any other transmission, or transportation ...

76.04.660 Additional fire hazards -- Extreme fire hazard areas -- Abatement, isolation or reduction -- Summary action -- Recovery of costs -- Inspection of property
(1) The owner of land on which there is an additional fire hazard, when the hazard is the result of a landowner operation or the ...

76.04.700 Failure to extinguish campfire
It is unlawful for any person to start any fire upon any camping ground and upon leaving the camping ground fail to extinguish the fire.[1986 ...

76.04.710 Wilful setting of fire
It is unlawful for any person to wilfully start a fire, whether on his or her land or the land of another, whereby forest lands ...

76.04.720 Removal of notices
It is unlawful for any person to wilfully and without authorization deface or remove any warning notice posted under the requirements of this chapter.[1986 c ...

76.04.730 Negligent fire -- Spread
It is unlawful for any person to negligently allow fire originating on the person's own property to spread to the property of another.[1986 c 100 ...

76.04.740 Reckless burning
(1) It is unlawful to knowingly cause a fire or explosion and thereby place forest lands in danger of destruction or damage. (2) This section ...

76.04.750 Uncontrolled fire a public nuisance -- Suppression -- Duties -- Summary action -- Recovery of costs
Any fire on or threatening any forest land burning uncontrolled and without proper action being taken to prevent its spread, notwithstanding the origin of the ...

76.04.900 Captions -- 1986 c 100
As used in this act subchapter and section captions constitute no part of the law.[1986 c 100 § 60.] ...