Suppression definition

Suppression means all activities involved in the containment and control of forest fires, including the patrolling thereof until such fires are extinguished or considered by the department to pose no further threat to life or property.
Suppression which means reducing the vigor of noxious weed populations within an infested region, decreasing the propensity of noxious weed species to spread to surrounding lands, and mitigating the negative effects of noxious weed populations on infested lands. Suppression efforts may employ a wide variety of integrated management techniques.
Suppression means all activities involved in the

Examples of Suppression in a sentence

  • No employee shall be permitted to work for compensation for the County in any capacity during the time of his or her paid vacation from the County service except as a Fire Suppression Volunteer, Deputy Sheriff-Emergency Service, Election Board Officer or Election Night Help.

  • Each Contracting Party shall in particular act in conformity with the aviation security provisions of the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, signed at Tokyo on 14 September 1963, the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, signed at The Hague on 16 December 1970 and the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, signed at Montreal on 23 September 1971.

  • Suppression employees assigned and who perform in a higher classification than their own shall be compensated at the rate of five percent (5%) above their current regular rate of pay, or at the next highest step in pay in the classification to which they are assigned, from the first hour worked.

  • Fire Suppression personnel shall not be required/allowed to paint, move furniture (outside of what is necessary for general cleaning of quarters), or perform construction projects on City or personal property.

  • No employee shall be permitted to work for compensation for the County in any capacity during the time of his or her paid vacation from the County service except as a Fire Suppression Volunteer, Election Board Officer or Election Night Help.


More Definitions of Suppression

Suppression means all activities involved in the containment
Suppression means the application of phytosanitary measures in an affected area to reduce a pest population;
Suppression when added to a job classification, means that the employee is regularly assigned to an average 56-hour per week work schedule.
Suppression means control of the numbers and
Suppression means the implementation of intervention strategies designed to reduce native pest populations to acceptable levels necessary to meet forest resource management objectives in a specified area. [Amended by 1967 c.87 §1; 1991 c.686 §1]
Suppression means the application of phytosanitary measures in an infested area to reduce a pest population;
Suppression means a bark beetle control strategy designed to reduce or keep the outbreak to a size and distribution that can be handled within normal resources by treating 80% or more of the infestations found on the most current aerial overview inventory.