Colusa County Municipal Code Art. II Regulations

(Ord. No. 202, § 1)

(a) Smoking is prohibited while traveling on foot, cycle or domestic animal, in grain, grass, stubble, brush, timber or other inflammable vegetative cover and on roads and trails and in other areas posted against smoking between the first day of May and the first day of November of any year.

(b) Smoking is permitted as follows:

(1) In improved campgrounds;

(2) Inside vehicles on roads;

(3) At places of habitation;

(4) While stopped in a cleared or barren area of at least three feet in diameter.

Provided however, that in all instances burning and glowing substances are completely extinguished before being discarded.

(Ord. No. 202, § 3)

The state forester, and all his agents duly authorized by the laws of the state, and all U.S. forest officers, are hereby declared to be peace officers of this county for the purpose and with the right of enforcing all provisions of section 7-8.

(Ord. No. 87, § 1)

It is hereby declared to be necessary, in order to prevent great and irreparable damage to crops and other property, and for the preservation thereof, and for the preservation of the public safety within the county, that fire protection or firebreaks be established and maintained in the county.

(Ord. No. 87, § 2)

Every person being in possession of, occupying or having control of any land within the county, outside of incorporated cities and towns, upon which there has been sown, or is standing, growing or grown, any wheat, oats, barley, hay or vegetation of any kind whatsoever, which when so sown, standing, growing, grown or being upon such lands in any way has become inflammable, easily ignited or burned, shall at all times during the season when the same, or any part thereof, is inflammable, easily ignited or burned, maintain around the outer boundary of such lands, where the same are adjacent to any farming lands having inflammable vegetation thereon, or highway, through farming lands upon which there is any such grain, hay or vegetation of any kind of an inflammable nature and in a condition as hereinabove described, an effective fire protection, or firebreak, of at least three feet in width, when such fire protection, or firebreak, is made by plowing, and at least six feet in width when such fire protection or firebreak is made otherwise; provided, however, that when such lands are adjacent to a highway such fire protection or firebreak may be made by the removal of the inflammable, easily ignited or easily burned grain, vegetation matter or substance along or upon the half of such highway adjacent to such lands.

(Ord. No. 87, § 3)

Every person harvesting grain or causing grain to be harvested with the county by means of a combined harvester shall provide such harvester with at least two suitable chemical fire extinguishers of not less than two and one-half gallon capacity. Such fire extinguishers shall be in a convenient place upon such harvester, and be fully equipped and ready for immediate use.

(Ord. No. 87, § 4)

Every person operating or causing to be operated any gas tractor in harvesting grain in the county shall cause a suitable device to be attached to the exhaust on each such gas tractor for the purpose of arresting burning carbon and thereby preventing fire.

(Ord. No. 87, § 5)

It shall be unlawful for the board of supervisors to engage an inspector whose duty it shall be to inspect all gas tractors engaged in harvesting grain in the county. Such inspector shall have the right to enter any grain field in the county where there is a gas tractor and inspect the harvesting paraphernalia and the traction engine, and make such recommendations to the parties in charge of such harvesting paraphernalia as he may see fit, and to summarily arrest any one violating the provisions of sections 7-12 and 7-13.

(Ord. No. 87, § 6)

Every person being in possession of, occupying or having control of any warehouse or building maintained for the storage of grain, hay, rice or foodstuffs, or other property of any kind or character for hire, outside of cities and towns, shall at all times maintain around such warehouse or building an effective fire protection, or firebreak of at least twenty feet in width.

(Ord. No. 87, § 7)

Every person being in possession of, occupying or having control of any building in the county, outside of any incorporated city or town, shall maintain an effective fire protection and firebreak around such buildings of at least twenty feet.