(A) Fires for cooking, heating and recreation. All such fires must use only charcoal; clean, dry and seasoned firewood; or natural gas or propane. All such fires shall be within a non-combustible container device, structure or fire ring designed for the purpose of containing a fire. Recreational fires shall be no larger than three feet in diameter and two feet in height.
(B) Disaster rubbish. The open burning of rubbish, including landscape waste, for the duration of a community disaster period in cases where an officially declared emergency exists.
(C) Training fires. Fires set and used for the purpose of bona fide instruction and training of public, institutional or industrial employees in the methods of firefighting.
(D) City landscape waste disposal site. Burning conducted by, or at the direction of, employees of the Department of Public Works at the city’s designated landscape waste disposal site.
(E) Incinerators. Incinerators operated by permit issued by the State Department of Natural Resources, when operated in accordance with the permit.
(F) Open burning by permit. Such open burning activities for which an open burning permit has been requested from, and issued by, the Fire Chief or his or her designee. Open burning activities for which a permit may be issued include: ceremonial fires for groups or organizations; prescribed landscape fires for the maintenance of native prairie grasses and agricultural areas; and such other open burning activities as are deemed necessary and appropriate.
(Prior Code, § 6-8A-3) (Ord. 609, passed 6-21-2004; Ord. 679, passed 10-20-2008)