Definitions:
- Open Burning: shall mean the incineration or combustion of yard waste materials as a method of disposal without any means to control the fuel/air ratio.
- Yard Waste: shall mean grass clippings, leaves, and shrubbery clippings collected from residential property.
- Household Waste: shall mean all waste, products and materials, other than grass clippings, leaves, and shrubbery clippings.
Open Burning Requirements:
- No person, firm, or corporation shall kindle or maintain any open burning in any public street, alley, ditch, or easement in the City of Flippin, Arkansas.
- No person, firm, or corporation shall kindle or maintain any open burning that is a persistent offense to neighbors, a fire hazard to surrounding property, a health or safety hazard.
- It shall be unlawful for any resident to make a false report against another resident regarding the burning of outside yard waste.
- It shall be unlawful for any resident to import onto their property and burn yard waste from any other location.
- Burning shall be done only on a day with a five (5) mile per hour wind or less.
- All burning shall be constantly supervised by a competent person of not less than sixteen (16) years of age.
- All burning shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet from any structure.
- All burning shall be accomplished during daylight hours only.
- Burning shall be controlled and maintained in a safe manner at all times, and a means to extinguish the fire shall be at the burn site, readily available, and fully operational.
- No burning will be allowed when Fire Officials, or the Mayor, post a burn ban on outside burning, due to weather conditions, which make outside burning hazardous to the community.
- No person, firm, or corporation, shall burn household waste outside at any time.
Land Clearing:
- Any person, firm, corporation clearing land for construction of commercial or residential property, shall secure a permit from the Flippin Fire Department before any burning shall commence.
- An inspection of the burn site by a Fire Official shall precede the open burning
- Open burning shall be during daylight hours only, unless approved by a Fire Official.
- A method of fire extinguishment, approved by a Fire Official, shall be on the site at all times and readily available during burning.
- Open burning shall not be less than fifty (50) feet from any structure.
- Stumps or objects over six (6) inches in diameter will not be allowed to burn unless prior apporval of the Fire Official has been obtainted.
- Open burning shall be supervised by a competent person of at least sixteen (16) years of age.
-No open burning will be allowed during a burning ban by Fire Officials, or the Mayor, due to weather conditions, which would make burning hazardous.
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