---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 2.13"
title: "36"
number: "2.13"
heading: "Fires."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/2.13"
---

# §2.13. Fires.

- (a) **The following are prohibited—**
  - (1) Lighting or maintaining a fire, except in designated areas or receptacles and under conditions that may be established by the superintendent.
  - (2) **Using stoves or lanterns in violation of established restrictions.**
  - (3) Lighting, tending, or using a fire, stove or lantern in a manner that threatens, causes damage to, or results in the burning of property, real property or park resources, or creates a public safety hazard.
  - (4) **Leaving a fire unattended.**
  - (5) Throwing or discarding lighted or smoldering material in a manner that threatens, causes damage to, or results in the burning of property or park resources, or creates a public safety hazard.
- (b) Fires shall be extinguished upon termination of use and in accordance with such conditions as may be established by the superintendent. Violation of these conditions is prohibited.
- (c) During periods of high fire danger, the superintendent may close all or a portion of a park area to the lighting or maintaining of a fire.
- (d) The regulations contained in this section apply, regardless of land ownership, on all lands and waters within a park area that are under the legislative jurisdiction of the United States.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, as amended at 52 FR 35240, Sept. 18, 1987]

### Authority

Authority: 54 U.S.C. 100101, 100751, 320102.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, as amended at 52 FR 35240, Sept. 18, 1987]