1995-16328-Ordinance No. 84-009 Recorded 4/18/1984..t
95-16328
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES
An Ordinance Prohibiting Open *
Burning Outside the Boundaries*
of Rural Fire Protection Dis- *
tricts and Forest Protection *
Districts During a Closed Fire*
Season, and Declaring an
Emergency.
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FILED
APR 18 1984
MARY SUE PER&LOW, CO. CLERK
ORDINANCE NO. 84-009
WHEREAS, ORS 476.380 prohibits any person from causing,
permitting, or maintaining on his property, or the property of
another, any open burning of commercial waste, demolition
material, domestic waste, industrial waste, land clearing debris,
or field burning without first securing a permit from the Board
of County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, for certain periods of the year a high fire danger
exists during which the State Forester proclaims a closed fire
season for the West Central Oregon District for the State
Forestry Department; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to prohibit open
burning during that season; now, therefore,
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON, ORDAINS as follows:
Section 1. That no person, outside the boundaries of a
rural fire protection district or a forest protection district,
shall cause or permit to be initiated or maintained on his own
property, or cause to be initiated or maintained on the property
of another any open burning of commercial waste, demolition mater-
ial, domestic waste, industrial waste, land clearing debris or
field burning during the closed fire season as established by the
State Forester, unless such fire is initiated and maintained
pursuant to a permit from the State of Oregon, Department of
Environmental Quality.
Section 2. Violation of this Ordinance is a Class A
infraction.
Section 3. This Ordinance being necessary for the immediate
preservation of public peace, health and safety, an emergency is
declared to exist, and this Ordinance takes effect on its
passage.
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DATED this day of _� 1984.
BOA/D OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DESCHUTES COUNTY OREGON
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Recording Secretary
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, Commissioner
LAURENCE A. TUTTLEI, Commissioner