Nev. Admin. Code § 528.080

Current through October 11, 2024

Section 528.080 - Sawmills

No sawmill may be established or operated in a forested area or adjacent to a forested area unless the landowner or operator employs the following fire prevention practices:

1. Installs a safe sawdust burner in an area which is cleared of vegetation for 300 feet around the burner, or remove the sawdust from the premises concurrently in the course of operations, or spread and mix the sawdust with soil daily in the proportion of 50 percent sawdust and 50 percent soil. No lopped limbs or other logging debris may be mixed with sawdust.

2. The slabs resulting from a sawmill operation may not be mixed with sawdust or piled against living trees. Slabs must be piled in an area which is cleared of vegetation for 100 feet around the piling area. The slabs must be placed in this area concurrently in the course of operations. The slabs must be removed from the area not later than 10 days after completion of operations or be burned in small piles, whichever the state forester firewarden decides is the safer method according to the season of the year. The slabs may be burned in a safe burner daily if the owner or operator so decides.

3. There must be at least one fire extinguisher at the mill at all times. The extinguisher is to be of the CO₂ foam or dry chemical type. It must be inspected by a qualified person and certified to be in operable condition in the past 60 days. The extinguisher must have a certification tag attached to it. In addition there must be at least one 5-gallon back pack can and pump full of water and in operating condition, and at least three good shovels and one axe. This fire equipment must be reserved for fire use only. The shovels and other tools must be placed in a box which has the words "Fire Tools" painted in red on it in large letters.

4. All diesel tractors and other equipment which may throw sparks, operating at the mill or in its vicinity, must be equipped with an effective modern spark arrester of a type meeting the approval of the state forester firewarden and a shovel size 0 or larger.

Nev. Admin. Code § 528.080

Div. of Forestry, Art. A § 11, eff. 1-1-63