Santa Clarita Municipal Code § 15.44.700 Collection Vehicles

A. To protect public health, safety, and well-being, any truck used for the collection or transportation of solid waste within the City shall be leakproof and equipped with a close-fitting cover which shall be affixed in a manner that will prevent spilling, dropping or blowing of any waste upon the public right-of-way during collection or transportation.

B. No person shall park, or cause to be parked in a public area or public street within the City, any solid waste collection vehicle containing solid waste unless the vehicle is free from odor and in a sanitary condition.

(Ord. 09-4 § 1, 4/28/2009; Ord. 22-3 § 1 (Exh. A), 1/25/2022; Formerly 15.44.600)

To protect the public health, safety, and quiet enjoyment of the City's residents, the noise level for collection vehicles during the stationary compaction process shall not exceed seventy-five (75) A-weighted decibels (dBA) at a distance of twenty-five (25) feet from the collection vehicle and at an elevation of five (5) feet from the horizontal base of such vehicles.

(Ord. 09-4 § 1, 4/28/2009; Ord. 22-3 § 1 (Exh. A), 1/25/2022; Formerly 15.44.605)

A. Any person or entity handling solid waste, including recyclable materials and organic waste, within the City shall immediately clean up, or arrange for the immediate cleanup of, any solid waste released, spilled, or dumped into the environment during collection, handling, or transport within the City by such person.

B. Until solid waste has been picked up by a solid waste enterprise, or is self-hauled, the person in charge of the day-to-day operation of each residential or commercial 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 in charge. This cleanup responsibility includes the cleanup of solid waste, including recyclable materials 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 a container, 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 or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles of solid or liquid waste of any kind whatsoever.

C. Each solid waste enterprise shall clean up any solid waste spilled or otherwise released or discharged into the environment during its collection, removal, or transfer, as soon as the spill, release, or discharge occurs.

(Ord. 09-4 § 1, 4/28/2009; Ord. 22-3 § 1 (Exh. A), 1/25/2022; Formerly 15.44.610)