This bill addresses efforts to oversee wildfire risks associated with wildland urban interface property.
This bill:
- defines terms;
- requires counties to take certain actions related to wildland urban interface property, including assessing a fee;
- directs the fee to be retained by a county and deposited into the Wildland-urban Interface Prevention, Preparedness, and Mitigation Fund;
- addresses insuring wildland urban interface property;
- imposes notice requirements related to insuring wildland urban interface property;
- requires counties and municipalities to adopt the wildland urban interface building code standards;
- permits the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands (division) to choose not to cover costs of local governments under certain circumstances;
- directs the division to establish a program for wildland urban interface coordinators to evaluate, using a triage scale, high risk wildland urban interface property;
- addresses actions related to evaluating the high risk wildland urban interface property;
- provides for a database to be accessed by certain insurers related to evaluating high risk wildland urban interface property;
- authorizes rulemaking;
- addresses liability; and
- makes technical changes.
Recommended by: Business and Labor Interim Committee

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 15A-5-203, 63G-7-201, 65A-8-203, 65A-8-215
Substitute #1: 15A-5-203, 63G-7-201, 65A-8-203, 65A-8-215
Substitute #2: 15A-5-203, 63G-7-201, 65A-8-203, 65A-8-215
Substitute #3: 15A-5-203, 63G-7-201, 65A-8-203, 65A-8-215