SAN DIEGO COUNTY AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DISTRICT
RULE 101. DEFINITIONS
(Rev. Effective 3/27/90)
Whenever in this regulation the following words or phrases hereinafter
defined are used, they shall have the respective meaning assigned to them
in the following definitions:
(a) "Agricultural Burning" means open outdoor fires
used in agricultural operations in the growing of crops or raising of fowl
or animals, or open outdoor fires used in forest management, range improvement,
or the improvement of land for wildlife and game habitat, or disease or
pest prevention.
"Agricultural Burning" also means open outdoor fires
used in the operation or maintenance of a system for the delivery of water
for the purposes specified above.
"Agricultural Burning" also means open outdoor fires
used in wildland vegetation management burning. Wildland vegetation management
burning is the use of prescribed burning conducted by a public agency,
or through a cooperative agreement or contract involving a public agency,
to burn land predominantly covered with chaparral, trees, grass, or standing
brush. Prescribed burning is the planned application of fire to vegetation
to achieve any specific objective on lands selected in advance of that
application. The planned application of fire may also include natural or
accidental ignition.
(b) "Approved Ignition Devices" means those devices,
instruments or materials that will ignite open fires without the production
of black smoke by the ignition device, including, but not limited to, liquid
petroleum gas, butane, propane, or pressurized diesel fuel oil burners,
and flares. Said term does not include tires, tar paper, oil and other
similar materials.
(c) "Designated Agency" means any agency designated
by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to Section 41852(a) and 41853,
Health & Safety Code, as having authority to issue burning permits.
The U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry are so
designated within their respective areas of jurisdiction.
(d) "Forest Management Burning" means the use
of open fire, as part of a forest management practice, to remove forest
debris or for forest management practices which include timber operations,
silvicultural practices or forest protection practices.
(e) A "No-burn Day" means any day on which burning
is prohibited by the California Air Resources Board or the Air Pollution
Control District.
(f) "Open Outdoor Fire" means any fire ignited in the
open or in any device other than a multiple-chamber incinerator as defined
in Rule 2(r).
(g) A "Permissive-burn Day" means any day which burning
is not prohibited by the California Air Resources Board or the Air Pollution
Control District.
(h) "Prescribed Burning" means the planned application
of fire to vegetation on lands selected in advance of such application,
where any of the purposes of the burning are specified in the definition
of agricultural burning as set forth in Health and Safety Code Section 39011.
(i) "Range Improvement Burning" means the use of open
fires to remove vegetation for a wildlife, game or lifestock habitat or
for the initial establishment of an agricultural practice on previously
uncultivated land.
(j) "Silviculture" means the establishment, development,
care and reproduction of stands of timber.
(k) "Timber Operations" means cutting or removal of
timber or other forest vegetation.
(l) "Treated" means that the material to be burned
has been felled, crushed or uprooted, or has been desiccated with herbicides,
or is dead.
(m) "Wildland Vegetation Management Burning" means
the use of prescribed burning conducted by a public agency, or through
a cooperative agreement or contract involving a public agency, to burn
land predominantly covered with chaparral (as defined in Title 14, California
Administrative Code, Section 1561.1), trees, grass or standing brush.