Fire prevention: wildfire risk: defensible space: ember-resistant zones.
It became law on Sep 29, 2020.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Assembly
- Sponsors
- 7
- Latest action
- Sep 29, 2020
What it does
Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify areas in the state as very high fire hazard severity zones based on specified criteria and the severity of the fire hazard. Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material that is within a very high fire hazard severity zone, as designated by a local agency, or a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining those areas or lands within a state responsibility area, to maintain a defensible space of…
Where it stands
This bill passed and is now law.
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