ARTICLE 7.7. Working Forest Management Plan
Article 7.7 added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 648, Sec. 1.
§§ 4597–4597.22 · 22 sections
- § 4597 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The nonindustrial timber management plan established pursuant to Article 7.5 (commencing with…
- § 4597.1 Notwithstanding Section 4521, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern construction of this article: (a) “Long-term sustained…
- § 4597.2 A working forest management plan may be submitted to the department in writing by a person who intends to become a working forest landowner with the long-term…
- § 4597.3 The board shall adopt regulations regarding the notice of receipt of the proposed working forest management plan. The notice shall be given within two working…
- § 4597.4 The department shall provide notice of the filing of working forest management plans, the proposed plans, and working forest harvest notices on its Internet…
- § 4597.5 Upon receipt of the proposed working forest management plan, the department shall place the proposed plan, or a true copy of the proposed plan, in a location…
- § 4597.6 (a) The department shall provide a time period for public comment, starting from the date of the receipt of a working forest management plan, as follows: (1)…
- § 4597.7 The working forest landowner may submit a proposed amendment to the approved plan and shall not take any action that substantially deviates, as defined by the…
- § 4597.8 The working forest landowner may take actions that do not substantially deviate from the approved plan without the submission of an amendment, but those…
- § 4597.9 (a) Upon a change of ownership of the land described in the working forest management plan, the transferring landowner shall provide the acquiring landowner…
- § 4597.10 The working forest landowner may cancel the working forest management plan by submitting a written notice to the department. Once timber operations have…
- § 4597.11 The working forest landowner who owns, leases, or otherwise controls or operates on all or any portion of any timberland within the boundaries of an approved…
- § 4597.12 (a) For an approved working forest management plan, the director shall convene a meeting with the interdisciplinary review team, as that term is used in…
- § 4597.13 The registered professional forester who prepares the working forest management plan or prepares the notice of harvest, or any other registered professional…
- § 4597.14 If the board finds that a registered professional forester has made any material misstatement in a working forest harvest notice, working forest management…
- § 4597.15 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, if a registered professional forester certifies by written declaration, on behalf of the timber owner or…
- § 4597.16 If the department determines that the objectives of uneven aged management and sustained yield are not being met by a working forest landowner, or there are…
- § 4597.17 If a landowner with a nonindustrial timber management plan or a working forest management plan with less than 2,500 acres expands his or her total timberland…
- § 4597.18 A participating landowner, in conjunction with the preparation of an application for a working forest management plan filed with the department, may also seek…
- § 4597.19 Notwithstanding any other law, if a person with a working forest management plan or a nonindustrial timber management plan applies for state restoration grant…
- § 4597.21 This article does not affect the applicability of county rules adopted pursuant to Section 4516.5 nor any court decision made by a court of competent…
- § 4597.22 This article does not apply to the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District, as described in Section 895.1 of Title 14 of the California Code of…