Utah Admin. Code R652-120-300 - Responsibilities of Counties
1. A county shall
abate the public nuisance caused by wildfire on unincorporated, privately owned
or county owned forest, range, watershed, and wildland urban interface lands
within its boundaries.
(a) reduce the risk of
wildfire to unincorporated, privately owned or county owned forest, range,
watershed, and wildland urban interface land within the county's boundaries,
with private landowner permission, through appropriate wildfire prevention,
preparedness, and mitigation actions; and
(b) ensure effective wildfire initial attack
on unincorporated privately owned or county owned forest, range, watershed, and
wildland urban interface land within the county's boundaries.
(c) a county may assign the responsibilities
described in Subsections (a) and (b) to a fire service provider or an eligible
entity through delegation, contract, interlocal agreement or another method.
2. In a county that has
not entered into a cooperative agreement as described in Section
65A-8-203 the county sheriff
shall take appropriate action to suppress wildfires on state or private lands.
3. In all cases the sheriff shall:
(a) report, as prescribed by the state
forester, on wildland fire control action;
(b) investigate and report wildfire causes;
and
(c) enforce the provisions of
this rule either independently or in cooperation with the state forester.
4. A county that has
entered into a cooperative agreement, as described in
65A-8-203 and
R652-120-600, the primary
responsibility for wildfire management is the division, upon the delegation of
fire management authority as described in 65A-8-203.1 and R652-120-1200.
5. The county sheriff and the
county sheriff's organization shall maintain cooperative support with the fire
management organization.
6. Each
county that participates in a cooperative agreement with the division as
described in 65A-8-203 and
R652-120-600(5),
shall be represented by a county fire warden at minimum during the closed fire
season, as described in Section
65A-8-211, except as provided in
Subsections (1)(b) and (c).
7. A
county may enter into a cooperative agreement with the division to receive
financial and wildland fire management cooperation and assistance.
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