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Commissioners review draft burn‑ban and property‑maintenance code; debate definitions and enforcement
Summary
County staff and counsel presented draft ordinances to authorize emergency open‑air burn bans during drought conditions, define prohibited rubbish, and create property‑maintenance enforcement with staged penalties; commissioners debated exemptions for clean wood and the length of automatic expiration and repeat‑offense windows.
The board reviewed two related draft code changes: a narrowly drawn open‑air burning ordinance authorizing the county to declare an emergency burn ban during drought conditions and a new property‑maintenance chapter adapted from the International Property Maintenance Code covering rubbish, garbage containers and enforcement timelines.
County counsel and staff outlined three articles in the burn‑ban draft: (1) prohibition on open‑air burning of garbage and rubbish, (2) authority for the…
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