---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 9212.1"
title: "43"
number: "9212.1"
heading: "Prohibited acts."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/9212.1"
---

# §9212.1. Prohibited acts.


Unless permitted in writing by the authorized officer, it is prohibited on the public lands to:

- (a) Cause a fire, other than a campfire, or the industrial flaring of gas, to be ignited by any source;
- (b) Fire a tracer or incendiary device;
- (c) Burn, timber, trees, slash, brush, tundra or grass except as used in campfires;
- (d) Leave a fire without extinguishing it, except to report it if it has spread beyond control;
- (e) Build, attend, maintain or use a campfire without removing all flammable material from around the campfire adequate to prevent its escape;
- (f) Resist or interfere with the efforts of firefighter(s) to extinguish a fire;
- (g) Enter an area which is closed by a fire prevention order, or
- (h) perform any act restricted by a fire prevention order.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 42828, Aug. 24, 1981, unless otherwise noted.