Navigation applications: traffic: very high fire hazard severity zones.

The California Emergency Services Act, among other things, establishes the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of mitigating the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies. The act requires the Director of Emergency Services to coordinate the emergency activities of all state agencies in connection with a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency. Existing law requires the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to identify areas of the state as very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. This bill would prohibit a company that provides a navigation application, as defined, from directing traffic within a one-mile radius of an area identified by the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection as a very high fire hazard severity zone. The bill would require that company to include a notification on the application that warns drivers using the application that a specified emergency event is occurring in the area described above. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to impose a civil penalty in an unspecified amount for each violation of the above provisions.