For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply.
BONFIRE. An outdoor fire used for ceremonial purposes.
BOSQUE or BOSQUE AREAS. The cottonwood corridor adjacent to and on either side of the Rio Grande.
FIRE CHIEF. The chief officer of the Albuquerque Fire Department.
OPEN BURNING. The burning of materials wherein products of combustion are emitted directly into the ambient air without passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber. OPEN BURNING does not include road flares, smudgepots and similar devices associated with safety or occupational uses typically considered open flames, recreational fires or use of portable outdoor fireplaces. For the purpose of this definition, a chamber shall be regarded as enclosed when, during the time combustion occurs, only apertures, ducts, stacks, flues or chimneys necessary to provide combustion air and permit the escape of exhaust gas are open.
OPEN SPACE AREAS. Includes those lands zoned or designated as open space in the city's adopted plan for major public open space and acquired by the city; Bosque or Bosque Areas; the Rio Grande State Park; Wildlands Areas and wildlands/urban interface areas; major named arroyos; lined or unlined drain-ways; retention dams and retention pond areas and abutting rights-of-way or easements which have been publicly acquired; and any open lands for which the city has assumed control or management responsibility by lease, easement, or legal agreement.
RECREATIONAL FIRE. An outdoor fire burning materials other than rubbish where the fuel being burned is not contained in an incinerator, outdoor fireplace, portable outdoor fireplace, barbeque grill or barbeque pit and has a total fuel area of three feet or less in diameter and two feet or less in height for pleasure, religious, ceremonial, cooking, warmth or similar purposes.
RIO GRANDE STATE PARK. The park area established in the Rio Grande Valley State Park Act that has boundaries defined in Section 16-4-12 NMSA 1978 and is under the management of the City of Albuquerque pursuant to the Rio Grande Valley State Park Act.
WILDLANDS AREAS. The lands owned by the city that are designated for public recreational purposes and that are covered wholly or in part by timber, brush or native grasses.
(Ord. 18-2011)