To obtain a burning permit in Oronoco Township:

Please read the following and then go to:

http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/burningpermits

Please read all of the following information

Step 1: Laws and Regulations

When do I need an open burning permit?
When the ground is not snow covered.
By definition, in Minnesota Statute 88.16 subd. 2: "Snow-covered" means that the ground has a continuous unbroken cover of snow, to a depth of three inches or more, surrounding the immediate area of the fire, sufficient to keep the fire from spreading.

When is a permit not needed?
For a "campfire"...
"Campfire" means a fire set for cooking, warming, or ceremonial purposes, which is not more than three feet in diameter by three feet high, and has had the ground five feet from the base of the fire cleared of all combustible material.

• When the ground is "snow-covered"...
  "Snow-covered" means that the ground has a continuous unbroken cover of snow, to a depth of three inches or more, surrounding the immediate area of the fire, sufficient to keep the fire from spreading.
• For a fire contained in a charcoal grill, camp stove, or other device designed for the purpose of cooking, or heating.
• For a fire in an approved burner, and there is no combustible material within five feet of the base of the burner, and it is in use between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Prior to 6:00 p.m., a permit is required to burn in a burner.
  Approved burner information 
  
  
   

What can I burn with a permit or in an approved burner?
Vegetative material, such as: grass, leaves, brush and untreated lumber.

What materials cannot be burned?

• Hazardous wastes
• Industrial solid waste
• Demolition debris of commercial or institutional structures. (A farm building is not a commercial structure.) Burning of any structure should be referred to a forest officer.
• Salvage operations
• Motor vehicles
• Oils
• Rubber
• Plastics
• Chemically-treated materials
• Other materials which produce excessive, or noxious smoke, such as, but not limited to: tires, railroad ties, chemically-treated lumber, composite board, sheet rock, wiring, paint, or paint filters.
• Garbage, defined as discarded material resulting from the handling, processing, storage, preparation, serving, or consumption of food.
  
  I AGREE:
  - To keep this fire under control and to assume responsibility for all damages and costs that may result from burning done under this permit.
  - To have this permit available at the burn site for inspection.
  - Not to burn if their is a practical alternative method for disposal of the material such as chipping or composting.
  - To use a clean burning device to start the fire.
  - Not to conduct burning during any air quality alert.
  - Not to burn paper or cardboard except as provided under Minnesota Statues 17.135
  - To extinguish the fire immediately if this permit is revoked.
  - To have this permit available at the burn site for inspection.
  - That prevailing wind must be away from nearby occupied buildings.
  - That fire will not be allowed to smolder without flame.
  
  PROHIBITED MATERIALS ARE:
  - oils, rubber, plastics, tires and chemically treated materials such as railroad ties, treated lumber, composite shingles, tar paper, insulation, composition board, sheet rock, wiring, paint, hazardous and industrial solid waste.
  
  
  VIOLATIONS OF PERMIT CONDITIONS MAY SUBJECT PERMITTEE TO CRIMINAL AND/OR CIVIAL ACTIONS.