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DIVISION 4. FORESTS, FORESTRY AND RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS 4001-4958›PART 2. PROTECTION OF FOREST, RANGE AND FORAGE LANDS 4101-4789.7›CHAPTER 8. Z'berg-Nejedly Forest Practice Act of 1973 4511-4630.2›ARTICLE 10. Innovative Forest Products and Mass Timber 4630-4630.2

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California Public Resources Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Innovative forest products” means products made using small-diameter woody materials, brush, and dead trees removed from fire hazard areas identified by the department and that are milled and manufactured in California to the maximum extent possible.

(b) “Mass timber” means prefabricated wood products consisting of not less than three layers of solid-sawn lumber or structural composite lumber in which adjacent layers are cross-oriented and bonded with structural adhesives, dowels, or nails to form a solid wood element and that are milled and manufactured in California to the maximum extent possible.

(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 637, Sec. 2. (AB 2518) Effective January 1, 2019.)

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