475.210 - Governor may close land or prohibit burning in areas which are fire hazards.
475.210 Governor may close land or prohibit burning in areas which are fire hazards.
1. Whenever the Governor finds that conditions of extreme fire hazard exist, either in or out of the fire hazard season, the Governor may by proclamation close or partially close such land or areas as the Governor may find to be in such condition of extreme hazard to the general public and prohibit or limit burning and other acts thereon to such degree and in such ways as he or she deems necessary to reduce the danger of forest and other wild land fires.
2. The Governor shall declare the end of any such emergency only upon a finding that the conditions of extreme fire hazard no longer exist.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 306)