(a) The commissioner may enter into necessary protection contracts.
(b) The commissioner may hire emergency firefighting personnel, and shall establish classifications and rates of pay for the emergency firefighting personnel consistent with the compensation paid by other firefighting agencies. The commissioner may adjust the classifications and rates based on findings of the federal Bureau of Land Management for Alaska. The commissioner may assign emergency firefighting personnel to conduct fire suppression, hazard reduction, fire prevention, habitat restoration or improvement, and other related activities in emergency and nonemergency circumstances. The assignment of emergency firefighting personnel to nonemergency activities may not be used to replace permanent or seasonal state employees.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Article 1. Protection of Forested Land.
Sec. 41.15.025. Fire protection on mental health trust land.
Sec. 41.15.030. Contracts for forest protection; emergency firefighters.
Sec. 41.15.040. Right of entry to control and suppress fires.
Sec. 41.15.045. Civil immunity.
Sec. 41.15.070. Disposal of burning materials.
Sec. 41.15.090. Building or leaving fires.
Sec. 41.15.100. Setting fires without consent.
Sec. 41.15.110. Uncontrolled spread of fire; leaving fire unattended.
Sec. 41.15.120. Requirement to assist in preventing or suppressing fires.
Sec. 41.15.130. Backfires and burnouts excluded.
Sec. 41.15.150. Criminal burning of forested land in the first degree.
Sec. 41.15.155. Criminal burning of forested land in the second degree.