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LEGAL COUNSEL
For Recording Stamp Only
BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
An Ordinance Amending Chapter 8.20, Open
Burning, and Declaring an Emergency.
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ORDINANCE NO. 2009 -009
WHEREAS, the existing Deschutes County Code 8.20 made it legal to conduct open burning on
unprotected lands within the County long after the normal declared fire season opening with no provisions for
contacting the appropriate fire districts or municipalities to ascertain whether fire weather conditions permitted
open burning ; and
WHEREAS, with the revisions in Exhibit 1 the new provisions will be consistent with the fire districts,
municipalities, federal and state agencies to regulate open burning in the unprotected lands within Deschutes
County; now, therefore,
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, ORDAINS
as follows:
Section 1. AMENDMENT. DCC 8.20 is amended to read as described in Exhibit "1," attached hereto
and by this reference incorporated herein, with new language underlined and language to be deleted in
ctrikethrough.
Section 2. EMERGENCY. This Ordinance being necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this Ordinance takes effect on its passage.
Dated this
ATTEST:
of , 2009 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
TAMMY BANEY, Chair
DENNIS R. LUKE, Vice Chair
Recording Secretary ALAN UNGER, Commissioner
Date of 1st Reading: day of , 2009.
Date of 2nd Reading: day of , 2009.
Record of Adoption Vote
Commissioner
Tammy Baney
Dennis R. Luke
Alan Unger
Yes No Abstained Excused
Effective date: day of , 2009.
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