§ 24. 1/3.

(a)

(b)

Repealed.

(c)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden and all deputy Forester and Fire Wardens to enforce and observe all orders and ordinances of the Board of Supervisors pertaining to forest, brush, and other fires, and all statutes relating to prevention or extinguishment of forest, brush or grass fires. The County Forester and Fire Warden shall cooperate with the State Forester and the Federal Forest Supervisors in the prevention and suppression of forest fires in the County of Los Angeles, and shall make a yearly report to the Board of Supervisors on the condition of the forests in Los Angeles County and on the damage by fire to the forests during the year reported.

(d)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden, subject to the orders of the Board of Supervisors, to construct and maintain fire lanes or breaks wherever proper and necessary to check and prevent the spreading of forest or brush fires. Such lanes or breaks shall be located and constructed in the manner that will serve the greatest public good with the least injury to the land on which they are constructed.

(e)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden under the direction of the Board of Supervisors, to study the fire protection needs of the County, and all unincorporated territory thereof, and advise the Board of Supervisors with respect thereto, and particularly of the advisability of the formation of any County fire protection district or districts, to seek to interest the inhabitants of any such proposed fire protection district and to aid in its formation; after formation of such districts, to advise the Board of Supervisors in the purchase of equipment and other property for such districts and to supervise the agents, employees or other persons engaged to fight fires therein, and in general, to have charge of all matters relating to or connected with the administration of such County fire protection districts.

(f)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden to extinguish structural fires in unincorporated territory not included within any fire protection district. He shall also enforce all statutes, ordinances, and orders of the Board of Supervisors relating to the prevention and extinguishment of structural fires in such territory. Where a statute, ordinance or order of the Board of Supervisors provides for the prevention or extinguishment of particular kinds of structural fires or for the inspection or control of particular structural fire hazards and prescribes duties for the County Forester and Fire Warden respecting the same the County Forester and Fire Warden shall act in accordance with such statute, ordinance or order, but except as so prescribed his duties with reference to structural fires and structural fire hazards shall be as prescribed herein.

(g)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden to inspect private lands and the buildings and structures thereon for the purpose of determining if a structural fire hazard exists. Where it is found that a fire hazard exists, he shall order the owner or person responsible therefor to abate or diminish such hazard as said County Forester and Fire Warden may deem proper, and he may make recommendations or suggestions to such person for that purpose. If after due notice such person refuses or neglects to abate or to diminish such structural fire hazard as directed by said order, the County Forester and Fire Warden shall immediately report the same to the Board of Supervisors, together with his recommendations as to future action and thereafter he shall take such further steps as may be ordered by the said Board of Supervisors. It shall also be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden to render an annual report to the Board of Supervisors setting forth the number and full details of the structural fires which he has been called upon to extinguish, the condition of such territory with regard to structural fire hazard and his recommendations for better combatting such fires and for the abating and lessening of such fire hazard.

(h)

The County Forester and Fire Warden shall use such apparatus, equipment, fire fighting personnel and inspection personnel in carrying out the duties set forth in paragraphs (f) and (g) hereof as the Board of Supervisors may from time to time authorize for such use. Where it is necessary to use the apparatus, equipment or fire fighting force of the fire protection districts to extinguish structural fires in unincorporated territory not included in any fire protection district and where such use is authorized by the state statute creating and governing the County fire protection districts, it shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden to supervise and direct the use thereof for such purpose.

(i)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden to extinguish and abate peat and bog fires in unincorporated territory not included within any fire protection district. He shall also enforce all statutes, ordinances and orders of the Board of Supervisors relating to the prevention and extinguishment of such fires.

(j)

It shall be the duty of the County Forester and Fire Warden subject to the orders of the Board of Supervisors to carry on educational work for the information of the public relative to the prevention of fires and to the conservation of natural resources, and to prepare or cause to be prepared information relating to these subjects and disseminate such information by means of lectures, motion pictures, stereopticon slides or other projection of pictures, displays and exhibits, or by any other appropriate means. He shall also enforce all statutes, ordinances, and orders of the Board of Supervisors relating to such educational work.