Florida Statute 590.015 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 590
FOREST PROTECTION

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F.S. 590.015

590.015 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) “Broadcast burning” means the burning of agricultural or natural vegetation by allowing fire to move across a predetermined area of land. The term does not include the burning of vegetative debris that is piled or stacked.

(2) “Fire management services” means presuppression fireline plowing, prescribed burning assistance, contract prescribed burning, prescribed and wildfire management training, and other activities associated with prevention, detection, and suppression of wildfires.

(3) “Fuel reduction” means the application of techniques that reduce vegetative fuels, and may include prescribed burning, manual and mechanical clearing, and the use of herbicides.

(4) “Open burning” means any outdoor fire or open combustion of material that produces visible emissions.

(5) “Wildfire” means any vegetative fire that threatens to destroy life, property, or natural resources.

(6) “Wild land” means any public or private managed or unmanaged forest, urban/interface, pasture or range land, recreation lands, or any other land at risk of wildfire.

History.—s. 2, ch. 99-292; s. 31, ch. 2000-308; ss. 54, 71, ch. 2011-206; s. 57, ch. 2012-7.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 590.015

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 590.015.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 590.015

Total Results: 5

Chancellor Media Whiteco Outdoor v. DEPT. OF TRANS.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2001-07-30

Citation: 795 So. 2d 991

Snippet: fire and other fuel reduction measures. * * * 590.015 Definitions.As used in this chapter, the term:

The Florida Bar v. Pascoe

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1988-06-23

Citation: 526 So. 2d 912, 13 Fla. L. Weekly 405, 1988 Fla. LEXIS 728, 1988 WL 63440

Snippet: entered against David Pascoe in the amount of $1,590.15, for which sum let execution issue. It is so ordered

Speights v. State

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1982-05-10

Citation: 414 So. 2d 574

Snippet: conviction, explication of Sections 590.08 and 590.15, Florida Statutes (1979), is required by determining

McAbee v. Edwards

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1976-07-16

Citation: 340 So. 2d 1167

Snippet: as third-party beneficiaries.' (56 Cal.2d at p. 590, 15 Cal. Rptr. at p. 825, 364 P.2d at p. 689.) The

State Ex Rel. Florida Portland Cement Co. v. Hale

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1937-10-12

Citation: 176 So. 577, 129 Fla. 588

Snippet: 382; Pittsburg S. Coal Co., v. La.,156 U.S. 590, 15 Sup. Ct. 459, 39 L. Ed. 544. In Patapsco Guano