608.04 PERMIT REQUIRED.
   For open burning or recreational fires, no person shall start or allow any burning on any property in the city without first having obtained an open burn or recreational fire permit. Permits may be issued only for the following purposes:
Subd. 1.   Recreational fires as defined herein;
Subd. 2.   Nonrecreational open burning; fires under managed supervision for which a burning permit has been obtained from the Fire Marshal and, where required by state law, from the Department of Natural Resources, but limited to the following:
      a.   Fires purposely set for the instruction and training of public and industrial firefighting personnel;
      b.   Fires set for the elimination of a fire hazard which cannot be abated by any other practicable means;
      c.   Fires purposely set for forest, prairie grass conservation and game management purposes;
      d.   The burning of trees, brush, grass and other vegetable matter in the clearing of land, the maintenance of street, road and highway right-of-way and in accepted agricultural land management practices.
Subd. 3.   Elimination of fire or health hazard that cannot be abated by other practical means.