Mission Viejo Municipal Code Div. 9 Cleanup Responsibility

(a) Until solid waste has been picked up by a solid waste collector or authorized recycling agent, the owner, operator, occupant, or other person in charge of the day-to-day operation of each premises in the city shall be responsible for the cleanup of any and all solid waste generated, deposited, released, spilled, leaked, pumped, poured, emitted, emptied, discharged, injected, dumped or disposed into the environment, or which otherwise has come to be located outside an authorized container on, at, or in the premises of which the person is the owner, operator, occupant or is otherwise in charge. This cleanup responsibility includes the cleanup of solid waste, recyclable solid wastes and organic waste which has come to be located outside an authorized container for the collection of such solid waste notwithstanding human or animal interference with commercial bins or containers, wind or other natural forces and whether during storage, collection, removal, or transfer. For purposes of this section, the term "disposed into the environment" shall include, but is not limited to, the abandonment of or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles of solid or liquid waste of any kind whatsoever.

(b) Each solid waste collector or authorized recycling agent shall clean up any solid waste spilled or otherwise released or discharged into the environment during its collection, removal, or transfer.

(Ord. No. 96-155, § 1, 1-8-96; Ord. No. 21-340, § 2, 7-13-21)