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Title 5 — BUSINESS AND SPECIAL LICENSES, REGULATIONS›Division 3 — SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL LICENSE OR PERMIT REQUIREMENTS AND BUSINESS REGULATIONS

Orange County Municipal Code Art. 6 Manure, Fertilizer

Orange County Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Orange County

Cite as: Orange County Municipal Code Article 6 · Text as of 2026-10-04

Sec. 5-3-81. - Regulations: Sanitary conditions required.

Any person, firm or corporation maintaining on his or its premises a distributing point where manure or stable, barnyard, cow yard or poultry yard refuse is loaded from one vehicle or receptacle to other vehicles or receptacles for the purpose of distribution, shall keep such premises in a clean and sanitary condition so that the same will not become a nuisance, health or fly menace to the surrounding community. The Health Department of the County of Orange is hereby vested with power and authority to establish and enforce such reasonable regulations as in its judgment shall be necessary for the control of fly breeding and other health menaces in connection with such premises.

(Code 1961, § 53.061)

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Sec. 5-3-82. - Regulations: Standing time limit on railroads and highways.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to allow any railroad car or other vehicle containing manure or stable, barnyard, cow yard or poultry yard refuse or other offensive or nauseous substance to stand upon or along any railroad or upon or along any public street or highway or any public place for any longer period than is reasonably necessary for the unloading and distribution of the same, such time in any event not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to allow to stand for a period longer than is reasonably necessary, and in any event not longer than forty-eight (48) hours, any manure or stable, barnyard, cow yard or poultry yard refuse or other offensive or nauseous substances which have been deposited upon or along the line of any railroad or upon or along any public street or highway or any other public place in the County of Orange.

(Code 1961, § 53.062)

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Sec. 5-3-83. - Regulations: Transportation.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to haul, transport and convey or to cause or permit to be hauled, transported or conveyed any manure or stable, barnyard, cow yard or poultry yard refuse, garbage or other nauseous substances upon, or along, any public highway in the County of Orange, except in a vehicle so constructed, maintained and covered that such manure or stable, barnyard, cow yard or poultry yard refuse, garbage or other nauseous substances shall not escape from any such vehicle, box or other receptacle in, into or upon any such public street, alley or public place or permeate the atmosphere.

(Code 1961, § 53.063)

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Secs. 5-3-84—5-3-93. - Reserved.

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