(A) The Police Chief or any town police officer, and/or Angleton Volunteer Fire Department Fire Chief, his/her designee, or any other state or county law enforcement officer may inspect the burn site and materials to ensure that no prohibited materials are included and that general requirements are being followed.
(B) If at any time the burning causes, or may tend to cause, smoke to blow onto or across a street, or roadway, it is the responsibility of the person initiating the burn to post flag persons on the affected roads.
(C) Fires must be kept downwind of or at least 50 feet away from any adjoining property line or structure. If property is located partially inside the town limits and partially outside the town limits, burning must occur on the property out of the town limits.
(D) Burning shall not commence when the surface wind speed is predicted to be less than six miles per hour (six miles per hour or five knots) or greater than 23 miles per hour (23 mph or 20 knots) during the burn period.
(E) Burning shall not be conducted during periods of actual or predicted low-level atmospheric temperature inversions. This includes days declared as air quality days by the Environmental Protection Agency or other governing authority.
(F) Burning may begin no earlier than one hour after sunrise and must end the same day no later than one hour before sunset.
(G) A responsible party must be present at the burn site. Such person shall have an adequate water supply or have other fire extinguishing equipment readily available for use. The responsible party must have reliable means of communication available to call for assistance, if it becomes necessary.
(H) Any residual fires and/or smoldering objects that continue to emit smoke must be extinguished at the end of the burn.
(I) Only brush/vegetation generated and gathered from the burn site area will be permitted. There shall be no importation of brush from any other properties for burning.
(J) Burning of material not contained must be in areas of not more than three feet by three feet and not more than three feet in height.
(Ord. 2017-04, passed 4-18-2017) Penalty, see § 95.99