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DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 106500-119406›PART 13. GARBAGE AND ONSITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL 117400-117590›CHAPTER 4. Waste and Waste Disposal 117400-117590›ARTICLE 2. Pollution of Navigable Waters with Garbage 117475-117500

§ 117490

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

A vessel upon which any garbage has been loaded with the intent that it shall be dumped or deposited upon any of the waters of the ocean where permitted by this article, shall not leave any point within the state unless it shall carry for the entire trip an inspector appointed by the department, or where the point of departure is in a city, then by the city. The inspector shall enforce this article.

Every person in charge of a vessel that is required to have an inspector on board by this article, and that does not carry an inspector during the entire trip, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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

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