Forest Practices Code of BC Act

PART 5 - PROTECTION OF FOREST RESOURCES: GENERAL

DIVISION 1 - DEFINITIONS

NOTE: This is not the current version of the Forest Practices Code. This document is available only as a reference for those sections repealed when the Forest and Range Practices Act came into force January 31, 2004.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PART 1 - DEFINITIONS
• PART 2 - STRATEGIC PLANNING, OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS
• PART 3 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT AND FOR FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS
• PART 4 - FOREST PRACTICES SPECIFIC TO FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS AND THE GOVERNMENT
• PART 5 - PROTECTION OF FOREST RESOURCES: GENERAL
  • DIVISION 1 - DEFINITIONS
  • DIVISION 2 - FIRE USE AND PREVENTION
  • DIVISION 3 - FIRE CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION
  • DIVISION 4 - UNAUTHORIZED TIMBER HARVESTING AND TRESPASS
  • DIVISION 5 - BOTANICAL FOREST PRODUCTS
  • DIVISION 6 - RECREATION
  • DIVISION 7 - CONTROL OF DESTRUCTIVE AGENTS
• PART 6 - COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
• PART 7 - GENERAL
• PART 8 - FOREST PRACTICES BOARD
• PART 9 - FOREST APPEALS COMMISSION
• PART 10 - REGULATIONS
• PART 10.1 - PILOT PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FOREST PRACTICES
• PART 11 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

75. In Divisions 2 and 3 and the regulations that relate to those Divisions:

"forest" includes all of the following:

(a) forest land, whether Crown land or private land;

(b) Crown range;

(c) Crown land or private land that is predominantly maintained in one or more

(i) successive stands of trees,

(ii) successive crops of forage, or

(iii) wilderness;

"industrial activity" includes land clearing, timber harvesting, timber processing, mechanical site preparations and other silviculture treatments, mining, road construction and any prescribed activity;

"local government" means the following:

(a) the trustees of an improvement district;

(b) the council of a municipality;

(c) the board of a regional district;

(d) [Repealed]

"open fire" means any burning conducted in such a manner that combustion products are not vented through a stack or chimney.

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