                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 10.1-1150.1)

As used in this article unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Certified prescribed burn manager&#8221; means any person who has
successfully completed a certification process established by the State Forester
under § 10.1-1150.2.
		&#8220;Prescribed burning&#8221; means the controlled application of fire or
wildland fuels in either the natural or modified state, under specified
environmental conditions, which allows a fire to be confined to a predetermined
area and produces the fire behavior and fire characteristics necessary to attain
planned fire treatment and ecological, silvicultural, and wildlife management
objectives.
		&#8220;Prescription&#8221; means a written statement defining the objectives
to be attained by a prescribed burning and the conditions of temperature,
humidity, wind direction and speed, fuel moisture, and soil moisture under which
a fire will be allowed to burn. A prescription is generally expressed as an
acceptable range of the prescription elements.

HISTORY: 1998, c. 156.