§ 16.08.010. Definitions.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this chapter.

"Board" means the board of supervisors of the county of Napa.

"Commission" means the planning commission of the county.

"Cut-over land" means land which has borne a crop of commercial timber from which at least seventy percent of the merchantable original growth timber stand has been removed or destroyed by logging, fire, insects or tree diseases, and which is now supporting or capable of growing a crop of commercial timber and other forest products, and which has not been converted to other commercial or agricultural use.

"Director" means the director of the county planning, building and environmental services department, and the director's designees.

"Permit" means a permit to engage in timber operations issued pursuant to Section 16.08.250 of this chapter.

"Person" means any individual, copartnership, corporation or association.

"Private timber owner" means any person that owns commercial timber, timberland, cut-over land, or timber rights on lands of another except a governmental agency.

"Rules" means the forest practice rules established pursuant to Article III of this chapter.

"Timberland" means land which is growing a crop of trees of any species which are of sufficient size and quality to be capable of furnishing raw material used in the manufacture of lumber or other forest products. Orchards and Christmas tree farms are expressly excluded.

"Timber operations" means the cutting or removal, or both, of timber or other forest products, including but not limited to firewood, from timberlands for commercial purposes; it includes work preparatory to cutting, and all cleanup, restoration and reforestation activities following completion of cutting operations; it includes work ancillary to removal, such as road and skid trail construction, but does not include timber salvage operations resulting mainly from any necessary utility or public works clearing operation, or private construction projects.

"Timber operator" means any person who is engaged in timber operations himself, or who contracts with others to conduct operations on his behalf, except a person who is engaged in timber operations as an employee with wages as his sole compensation.

"Timber owner" means a private timber owner, as defined in this section.

(Prior code § 10000—10012)

(Ord. No. 1379, § 80, 1-29-2013)