LRA Legislation Factsheet - Flipbook combined - Flipbook - Page 13
LRA Legislation Factsheet
Assembly Bill No.337 (Continued)
(2) Under existing law, any person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains any
building or structure in, upon, or adjoining any mountainous area or forest-covered lands,
brush-covered lands, or grass-covered lands, or any land that is covered with flammable
material, is required to undertake specified fire protection measures, including the
maintenance of specified firebreaks.
The bill would enact requirements of this nature for any person who owns, leases, controls,
operates, or maintains, any occupied dwelling or occupied structure in, upon, or adjoining
any mountainous area, forest-covered land, brush-covered land, grass-covered land, or land
covered with flammable material, which area or land is within a very high fire hazard
severity zone, as described in (1).
The bill would authorize local agencies to exempt certain structures and would exempt
certain land or water areas.
The bill would make violation of these requirements an infraction or misdemeanor, as
specified, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime, and
would specify related matters.
This bill would require local agencies to notify owners of property of violation and would
authorize local agencies to correct the conditions and make a lien upon the property, as
prescribed. By creating these requirements, this bill would impose a state-mandated local
program.
The bill would permit a violation of these requirements to be considered a public nuisance,
as specified.
(3) Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt, amend, and repeal regulations for roof
coverings and openings into the attic areas of buildings in those fire hazard severity zones in
state responsibility lands as designated by the director. Existing law requires the director to
classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones.
This bill would instead require the State Fire Marshal to propose, and would require the
State Building Standards Commission to adopt, amend, and repeal those regulations. The
bill would also require the State Fire Marshal to propose, and would require the State
Building Standards Commission to adopt, amend, and repeal, those regulations for buildings
in very high fire hazard severity zones in state responsibility lands, designated by the
director, and in very high fire hazard severity zones as described in (1). The bill would
require roofs on all new buildings and certain existing buildings in both of those zones to be
at least a class B roof that complies with Standard 32-7 of the Uniform Building Code, as
adopted in the California Building Standards Code. The bill would impose requirements on
installers and roofing materials and make other related changes. The bill would exempt
historic buildings, as defined, from these provisions.
