ARTICLE 1. Definitions [4101. - 4104.]

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC 1.

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Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4101. Section 4101.

“Person” includes any agency of the state, county, city, district, or other local public agency, and any individual, firm, association, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4102. Section 4102.

“State responsibility areas” means areas of the state in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires has been determined by the board pursuant to Section 4125, to be primarily the responsibility of the state.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4103. Section 4103.

“Forest fire” means a fire burning uncontrolled on lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, grass, grain, or other flammable vegetation.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4103.4. Section 4103.4.

“Open fire” means any fire, controlled or uncontrolled, including a campfire, burning outside of any structure, mobilehome, or living accommodation mounted on a motor vehicle. “Open fire” does not include portable lanterns designed to emit light resulting from a combustion process.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4103.5. Section 4103.5.

“Campfire” means a fire which is used for cooking, personal warmth, lighting, ceremonial, or aesthetic purposes, including fires contained within outdoor fireplaces and enclosed stoves with flues or chimneys, stoves using jellied, liquid, solid, or gaseous fuels, portable barbecue pits and braziers, or space heating devices which are used outside any structure, mobilehome, or living accommodation mounted on a motor vehicle. “Campfire” does not include portable lanterns designed to emit light resulting from a combustion process.

Cal. Public Resources Code - PRC § 4104. Section 4104.

The term “uncontrolled fire,” as used in this division, means any fire which threatens to destroy life, property, or resources and either: (1) is unattended by any person; (2) is attended by persons unable to prevent its unrestricted spread; or (3) is burning with such velocity or intensity that it could not be readily controlled with those ordinary tools available to private persons at the fire scene.

Source: CA Legislative Counsel Bulk DataURL: https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zipFetched: 6/27/2026