Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 11.16 Garbage and Other Waste Material

The director of public health shall enforce all laws, ordinances and regulations pertaining to the collection and disposal of garbage, and combustible and noncombustible rubbish, within garbage disposal districts.

(Ord. 2006-0040 § 92, 2006; Ord. 8588 § 2 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 611, 1959.)

The owner, agent or manager of any premises shall maintain such premises in a clean, sanitary condition, free from accumulations of garbage, rubbish, refuse and other wastes at all times, except as provided by the provisions of this Division 1 or other applicable laws.

(Ord. 8588 § 1 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 605, 1959.)

Garbage and putrescible matter, whether mixed with rubbish or other matter or not, shall be kept in watertight receptacles with close-fitting lids and with handles or bails. Such receptacles shall be thoroughly cleaned each time their contents are removed. Such garbage or putrescible material, whether mixed with rubbish or other material or not, shall not be kept for more than seven days.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 601, 1959.)

A person may feed garbage and market refuse to fowls or animals when such feeding does not constitute a nuisance or a menace to public health, and when such feeding is in compliance with such conditions as may be imposed by the director of public health.

(Ord. 2006-0040 § 93, 2006; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 602, 1959.)

Except as otherwise provided in this Division 1, no person shall permit the contents of any cesspool, septic tank, water closet or sewer, or any sewage effluent, excrement, urine, slop water, butcher offal, market refuse, garbage, rubbish, cans, dead animals, dead fowl, or any other putrid or offensive animal or vegetable matter, to remain or to be deposited or discharged upon the surface of the ground on any premises, lot, or in any building, basement, or in any public street, or into, or in a manner that might contaminate, any standing water, stream, hole, excavation or public place. This section does not prohibit:

A.

The placing of cans or rubbish in any lawfully existing dump or waste-disposal facility;

B.

The placing of garbage or market refuse, or both, in any lawfully existing dump or waste-disposal facility in compliance with the conditions imposed, if any, in the license granted for the operation thereof, pursuant to pertinent county ordinances, if, and only if, such license, in express terms, permits garbage or market refuse, or both, to be placed in such dump or waste- disposal facility.

(Ord. 8588 § 1 (part), 1964; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 600, 1959.)

A person may deposit and keep, for not more than 15 days, in a substantial and adequate container, combustible and noncombustible rubbish other than garbage and putrescible matter.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 603, 1959.)

Materials which are infected or contaminated, chemically hazardous, or radioactive shall be disposed of in a manner approved by the director.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 610, 1959.)

A person shall not keep any animal, fowl or bird, wild or domestic, other than cats, dogs, canaries or birds of the psittacine family, within 35 feet of any restaurant, food establishment, residence, or dwelling, or other building used for the habitation of human beings, or within 100 feet of any school building, hospital building or similar institution building. It is unlawful to keep or maintain a premises, yard, coop or building in which fowl or animals are maintained in a foul or insanitary condition. The provisions of this Section regarding distances shall not apply to accredited laboratories regulated by the California Department of Health Services or accessory dwelling units and junior accessory dwelling units regulated by Section 22.140.640 (Accessory Dwelling Units and Junior Dwelling Units).

(Ord. 2025-0029 § 1, 2025; Ord. 2006-0040 § 94, 2006; Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 608, 1959.)

A person shall not use any hog manure or hog-ranch wastes in the raw state within one-half mile of any building or part thereof used for a residence, except a building exclusively occupied by such person and his family.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 606, 1959.)

It is unlawful for any person to bury the carcass of any dead animal or any other putrid or offensive material unless such carcass or material is placed three feet below the surface level of the ground and immediately covered with at least three feet of soil; provided, however, that such carcass or material shall be buried in such a manner or location that it does not constitute a menace to public health or a nuisance.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 604, 1959.)

No person shall irrigate any strawberries, celery, potatoes, lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, onions, or any vegetable or berries eaten raw, in any manner. with sewage, sewage effluents or water from any stream into which sewage has been discharged, any of which does not meet the following standards: In any 20 consecutive samples, from which five 10-c.c. portions each are examined, not over 10 portions shall be positive for members of the coli-Aerogenes group, and in no single sample shall over half the 0.1 c.c. portions of the sample be positive for such organisms. Samples shall be analyzed in accordance with the latest Standard Methods of Examination of Water and Sewage of the American Public Health Association.

(Ord. 7583 Part 3 Ch. 7 § 607, 1959.)