Forest Practices Code of BC Act

PART 5 - PROTECTION OF FOREST RESOURCES: GENERAL

DIVISION 6 - RECREATION

NOTE: This is not the current version of the Forest Practices Code. This document is available only as a reference for those sections repealed when the Forest and Range Practices Act came into force January 31, 2004.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PART 1 - DEFINITIONS
• PART 2 - STRATEGIC PLANNING, OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS
• PART 3 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT AND FOR FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS
• PART 4 - FOREST PRACTICES SPECIFIC TO FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS AND THE GOVERNMENT
• PART 5 - PROTECTION OF FOREST RESOURCES: GENERAL
  • DIVISION 1 - DEFINITIONS
  • DIVISION 2 - FIRE USE AND PREVENTION
  • DIVISION 3 - FIRE CONTROL AND SUPPRESSION
  • DIVISION 4 - UNAUTHORIZED TIMBER HARVESTING AND TRESPASS
  • DIVISION 5 - BOTANICAL FOREST PRODUCTS
  • DIVISION 6 - RECREATION
  • DIVISION 7 - CONTROL OF DESTRUCTIVE AGENTS
• PART 6 - COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
• PART 7 - GENERAL
• PART 8 - FOREST PRACTICES BOARD
• PART 9 - FOREST APPEALS COMMISSION
• PART 10 - REGULATIONS
• PART 10.1 - PILOT PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FOREST PRACTICES
• PART 11 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

105. (1) If the district manager determines that it is necessary to protect a recreation resource or manage public recreation use on Crown land, he or she may, by written order, restrict, prohibit or attach a condition to

(a) a non-recreational use of

(i) a resource management zone, landscape unit or sensitive area that was established for recreation, or

(ii) an interpretive forest site, recreation site or recreation trail that is on Crown land,

except any use permitted under the Coal Act, Mineral Tenure Act or Petroleum and Natural Gas Act, or

(b) a recreational use anywhere on Crown land, except a use that is specifically permitted by or under another enactment.

(2) The district manager may make different orders under subsection (1) for different uses and locations.

(3) A district manager who makes an order under subsection (1) must post a notice of it in the area to which it applies.

(4) A person must not

(a) contravene an order made under subsection (1), or

(b) remove, alter, destroy or deface a notice posted under subsection (3) without lawful authority.