Open burning shall be allowed for the following purposes:
(a) Recreational fires, whether for cooking food for human consumption, pleasure, religious, ceremonial, warmth, recreational, or similar purposes, if the following conditions are met:
(1) They are fueled with clean seasoned firewood, natural gas, or equivalent, or any clean burning fuel with emissions that are equivalent to or lower than those created from the burning of seasoned firewood;
(2) They are not used for waste disposal purposes; and
(3) They shall have a total fuel area of three feet or less in diameter and two feet or less in height.
(4) They shall not be conducted within 25 feet (7620 mm) of a structure or combustible material.
(b) Heating tar, welding, acetylene torches, highway safety flares, heating for warmth of outdoor workers, smudge pots and similar occupational needs.
(c) Fires in approved portable outdoor fireplace containers shall not be conducted within 15 feet (3810 mm) of a structure and do not require a permit.
Fires allowed by this section shall not be used to burn garbage, landscape waste or any other waste material and shall be of minimum size sufficient for their intended purpose. The fuel used shall be chosen to minimize the generation and emission of air contaminants.
Open burning, bonfires, recreational fires and the use of portable outdoor fireplaces shall be constantly attended until the fire is extinguished.
(Ord. 12-15 AC CMS. Passed 3-5-12.)