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Code · CFR · Title 36 — Parks, Forests, and Public Property · Part 261 · § 261.5

§ 261.5. Fire.

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The following are prohibited:
(a)Carelessly or negligently throwing or placing any ignited substance or other substance that may cause a fire.
(b)Firing any tracer bullet or incendiary ammunition.
(c)Causing timber, trees, slash, brush or grass to burn except as authorized by permit.
(d)Leaving a fire without completely extinguishing it.
(e)Causing and failing to maintain control of a fire that is not a prescribed fire that damages the National Forest System.
(f)Building, attending, maintaining, or using a campfire without removing all flammable material from around the campfire adequate to prevent its escape.
(g)Negligently failing to maintain control of a prescribed fire on Non-National Forest System lands that damages the National Forest System.
(h)Possessing or using an exploding target or any kind of firework or other pyrotechnic device.
(i)Violating any State law concerning burning or fires or any State law that is for the purpose of preventing or restricting the spread of fire.
(j)Operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting device that is properly installed, maintained, and in effective working order in accordance with USDA Forest Service Standard 5100-1. \[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981; 73 FR 30307, May 27, 2008; 89 FR 92815, Nov. 25, 2024\]
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