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Forestry: Forest Fire Prevention Exemption.

It became law on Sep 23, 2022.

CA AB 522 · Assembly Bill · 2021–2022

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Became law
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Latest action
Sep 23, 2022

What it does

The Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 prohibits a person from conducting timber operations, as defined, unless a timber harvesting plan prepared by a registered professional forester has been submitted to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The act authorizes the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to exempt from some or all of those provisions of the act a person engaging in specified forest management activities, as prescribed, including the harvesting of trees for the purpose of reducing the rate of fire spread, duration and intensity, fuel ignitability, or ignition of tree crowns, as provided, known as the Forest Fire Prevention Exemption. The act provides…

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Sep 23, 2022

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