ARTICLE 1 - FOREST RESOURCES
- PART 1 - STATE FORESTRY COMMISSION
- § 12-6-1 - Definitions
- § 12-6-10 - Reports to General Assembly
- § 12-6-11 - Director -- Appointment; qualifications; salary; reimbursement for expenses; term
- § 12-6-12 - Director -- Duty of director to devote full time to office; power and duty of director to act for commission when commission not in session
- § 12-6-13 - Director -- Oath; bond; location of office
- § 12-6-14 - Director -- Eligibility of commission members for directorship or for employment under commission or director
- § 12-6-15 - Director -- Adoption of rules, regulations, and methods of administration
- § 12-6-16 - Director -- Control of tree diseases and insect infestation
- § 12-6-17 - Director -- Regulation of controlled burning where drought or other conditions exist
- § 12-6-18 - Director -- Expenditure of funds for benefit of lands under commission's control; sale and disposal of products from controlled lands
- § 12-6-19 - Director -- Promulgation of rules and regulations as to lands under commission's control; sale, lease, or exchange of controlled lands
- § 12-6-2 - Creation of State Forestry Commission; members; terms of office; ineligibility of Governor for membership; vacancies; effect of appointment when Senate not in session
- § 12-6-20 - Forestry investigators
- § 12-6-21 - Uncontrolled fire as constituting a public nuisance; duties and liabilities of person or entity responsible
- § 12-6-22 - Investigation of tree diseases or insect infestation; notification of landowner; recommendations; effect of landowner's failure to act; disposition of proceeds derived from sale of trees
- § 12-6-3 - Chairman; reimbursement of members for expenses; meetings
- § 12-6-4 - Dismissal of members for failure to attend meetings
- § 12-6-5 - Powers and duties of commission generally; volunteer services
- § 12-6-5.1 - Legislative findings; reforestation incentives program authorized; powers of commission
- § 12-6-6 - Management, conservation, and protection of forest lands; sale of forest products from land managed by commission; production and sale of seedlings
- § 12-6-7 - Federal financial aid -- Participation in rural fire prevention and control program; contributions by counties and fire departments
- § 12-6-8 - Federal financial aid -- Expenditure of funds for forest farming and marketing of forest products
- § 12-6-9 - Acquisition of land; gifts of land for use as lookout tower sites; abandoned tower sites; improvements on land subject to reversionary clause
- PART 1A - TIMBER HARVESTING AND REMOVAL REQUIREMENTS
- PART 2 - PRACTICE OF PROFESSIONAL FORESTRY
- § 12-6-40 - Legislative purpose
- § 12-6-41 - Definitions
- § 12-6-42 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Creation; appointment of members; certificate of appointment; oath; term of office
- § 12-6-43 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Qualifications of members
- § 12-6-44 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Compensation of members
- § 12-6-45 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Removal of members; vacancies
- § 12-6-46 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Meetings; officers
- § 12-6-47 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Rules and regulations; seal
- § 12-6-48 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Record of proceedings
- § 12-6-49 - Qualifications and requirements for registered foresters
- § 12-6-49.1 - Denial or suspension of license for noncompliance with child support order
- § 12-6-49.2 - Suspension of registered forester license; borrowers in default; hearing and appeal procedures
- § 12-6-50 - Applications for registration; fee
- § 12-6-51 - Examinations
- § 12-6-52 - Licenses -- Issuance generally; endorsement by registrant of plans, maps, specifications, and reports issued by registrant
- § 12-6-53 - Licenses -- Eligibility of foresters with 12 years' experience
- § 12-6-54 - Licenses -- Reciprocity for nonresidents
- § 12-6-55 - Licenses -- Only individuals may be licensed
- § 12-6-56 - Licenses -- Expiration and renewal generally; continuing forestry education requirement
- § 12-6-57 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Denial or revocation of license; discipline of licensee; code of ethics
- § 12-6-58 - State Board of Registration for Foresters -- Duplicate license for lost, destroyed, or mutilated license
- § 12-6-59 - Receipts and disbursements
- § 12-6-60 - Injunctive relief
- § 12-6-61 - Prohibited acts
- § 12-6-62 - Penalty; authority to prefer charges; immunity of person bringing charges from liability; duty to enforce part; legal assistance by Attorney General
- § 12-6-63 - Termination
- PART 3 - FOREST FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- § 12-6-80 - Short title
- § 12-6-81 - Legislative purpose
- § 12-6-82 - Definitions
- § 12-6-83 - Direction and supervision by State Forestry Commission of forest fire protection work; making and enforcing rules and regulations
- § 12-6-84 - Entry upon land for fire-prevention purposes or investigations
- § 12-6-85 - Fire protection units
- § 12-6-86 - Unit forestry boards -- Creation; appointment; qualifications; terms of office; vacancies; service by members without compensation
- § 12-6-87 - Unit forestry boards -- Duties
- § 12-6-88 - Unit forestry boards -- Annual forest fire protection plans appropriation of funds for public information campaign
- § 12-6-89 - "Extreme forest fire emergency" defined; authority of Governor, forestry investigators, and peace officers in emergency; advice by director to Governor as to existence of emergency
- § 12-6-90 - Permit required for burning woods, lands, marshes, or other flammable vegetation; exceptions
- § 12-6-91 - Controlled burning by owners over own forest land
- § 12-6-92 - Vesting of title to property in State Forestry Commission
- § 12-6-93 - Appropriations; agreements between State Forestry Commission and counties; taxation by counties for fire protection
- PART 4 - FORESTRY RESEARCH
- § 12-6-110 - Powers and duties of State Forestry Commission as to forestry research
- § 12-6-111 - Employment by State Forestry Commission of assistants and other employees
- § 12-6-112 - Appropriations, grants, or gifts to State Forestry Commission for forestry research
- § 12-6-113 - through 12-6-118. Repealed
- PART 5 - HERTY ADVANCED MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
- § 12-6-130 - Legislative declaration
- § 12-6-131 - Creation of development center; corporate powers; creation of board of trustees; terms of trustees; purpose of foundation
- § 12-6-132 - Composition of board of directors
- § 12-6-133 - Powers of center generally
- § 12-6-134 - Purpose; acceptance of donations, bequests, and appropriations; pulpwood experiments for states making appropriations; duties to citizens of states or subdivisions making appropriations
- § 12-6-135 - Appointment of directors from states making financial contributions to center; effect of cessation of contributions
- § 12-6-136 - Service of process
- § 12-6-137 - Title to property
- § 12-6-138 - Support of experimental work
- § 12-6-139 - Audit of accounts
- PART 6 - PRESCRIBED BURNING