Section 51177 Of Chapter 6.8. Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones From California Government Code >> Division 1. >> Title 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 6.8.
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. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Defensible space" means the area adjacent to a structure or
dwelling where wildfire prevention or protection practices are
implemented to provide defense from an approaching wildfire or to
minimize the spread of a structure fire to wildlands or surrounding
areas.
(b) "Director" means the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection.
(c) "Fuel" means any combustible material, including
petroleum-based products and wildland fuels.
(d) "Fuel management" means the act or practice of controlling
flammability and reducing resistance to control of fuels through
mechanical, chemical, biological, or manual means or by fire, in
support of land management objectives.
(e) "Local agency" means a city, county, city and county, or
district responsible for fire protection within a very high fire
hazard severity zone.
(f) "Single specimen tree" means any live tree that stands alone
in the landscape so as to be clear of buildings, structures,
combustible vegetation, or other trees, and that does not form a
means of rapidly transmitting fire from the vegetation to an occupied
dwelling or structure or from an occupied dwelling or structure to
vegetation.
(g) "State responsibility areas" means those areas identified
pursuant to Section 4102 of the Public Resources Code.
(h) "Vegetation" means all plants, including trees, shrubs, grass,
and perennial or annual plants.
(i) "Very high fire hazard severity zone" means an area designated
by the director pursuant to Section 51178 that is not a state
responsibility area.
(j) "Wildfire" means an unplanned, unwanted wildland fire,
including unauthorized human-caused fires, escaped wildland fire use
events, escaped prescribed fire projects, and all other wildland
fires where the objective is to extinguish the fire.