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DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 106500-119406›PART 12. DRINKING WATER 116270-117130›CHAPTER 7. Water Supply 116975-117130›ARTICLE 1. Water Supply Provisions 116975-117075

§ 117010

California Health and Safety Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Every person who washes clothes in any spring, stream, river, lake, reservoir, well, or other waters that are used or intended for drinking purposes by the inhabitants of the vicinage or of any city, county, or town, of this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 90 days, or a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Each day’s violation of this section is a separate offense.

(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.)

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