Resolution 2025-122 RESOLUTION NO. 2025 -1 22
A RESOLUTION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
DECLARING THAT A LOCAL EMERGENCY CAUSED BY
EXTREME DROUGHT CONDITIONS NO LONGER EXISTS IN
COLLIER COUNTY,AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDINANCE
NO. 2009-23, AS AMENDED, REPEALING THE BAN ON
OUTDOOR BURNING AND INCENDIARY DEVICES.
WHEREAS, on May 14, 2009, Board of County Commissioners (Board) upon declaring
that a local emergency existed within Collier County, Florida, requiring immediate measures to
protect the public health, safety and welfare, and to protect real and personal property, adopted
Ordinance No. 2009-23, known as the "Regulation of Outdoor Burning and Incendiary Devices
during Drought Conditions Ordinance," which has been amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS, on February 11, 2025, the Board in response to current wildfire conditions
approved the County Manager to implement an immediate ban on all outdoor open burning, and
outdoor ignition sources including fireworks, sparklers, incendiary devices (including but not
limited to campfires, bonfires, trash burning, disposal of lit cigarettes or cigarette butts) until
further notice in accordance with Ordinance No. 2009-23, as amended; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 2009-23, as amended, provides that the Ban shall remain in
effect until the County Manager makes a determination that a drought emergency no longer exists
and sends written notification of such condition to the Chairman of the Board, who may sign a
Resolution repealing the burn ban and upon repeal, the restrictions on open burning or discharge
of fireworks shall be immediately lifted; and
WHEREAS, local fire chiefs, the Division of Forestry, and the Director of the Bureau of
Emergency Services concur that the extreme drought conditions warranting the ban on outdoor
burning and incendiary devices no longer exist and the Burn Ban may be repealed.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
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1. The Chairman of the Collier County Board of County Commissioners, upon written
notification from the County Manager and based on information provided by local fire
chiefs, the Division of Forestry, and the Director of the Bureau of Emergency Services,
hereby affirms that the local emergency related to extreme drought conditions as
declared/ratified on February 11, 2025, no longer exists.
2. The Burn Ban is hereby repealed in its entirety pursuant to Ordinance No. 2009-13, as
subsequently amended.
THIS RESOLUTION ADOPTED this 104 day of June, 2025.
ATTEST: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Crystal K. Kinze( 0l4f Courts COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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Jeffrey A. lat. ;,, County Attorney
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