(A) The following types of fires are permitted:
(1) Fires celebrating Twelfth Night Ceremonies.
(2) Fires celebrating school pep rallies.
(3) Fires celebrating scouting activities.
(4) Fires used for recreational and cooking purposes, that is, camp fires.
(5) Farm burning; wood products derived from the following farm maintenance operations:
(a) Burning of fence rows and fields or materials derived therefrom.
(b) Burning of natural growth derived from clearing a drainage ditch.
(c) Burning of limbs, but only if so diseased or infected as to present a contamination problem.
(6) Waste oil burning as prescribed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources burning or United States Department of the Interior burning, all as prescribed and set forth in 326 IAC 4-1-3(a) (7, 8 and 9).
(7) By variance obtained from the Indiana Air Pollution Control Board Commissioner, or the Commissioner's designated agent.
(8) An owner or operator of an air curtain destructor as provided in 326 IAC 4-1-6.
(B) Exemptions (1) through (6) above shall be subject to the following:
(1) Only wood products shall be burned unless otherwise stated.
(2) Fires shall be attended at all times until completely extinguished.
(3) If the fire creates a nuisance or a fire hazard, the fire shall be immediately extinguished.
(4) All farm and waste oil burning shall occur only during the hours between 7:00 a.m. Central Standard Time and 4:00 p.m. Central Standard Time or 5:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time. All burning material must be consumed during these hours and the fire extinguished.
(5) No burning shall be conducted during unfavorable meteorological conditions such as temperature inversions, high winds, air stagnation, and the like.
(Ord. 93-20, passed 10-11-93) Penalty, see § 94.99