Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, no person shall deposit or discharge, or cause to be deposited or discharged, any discarded materials in any place other than an approved discarded materials container or at a County resource management facility, in accordance with this chapter.
(Ord. 5383 § 2, 2021)
(A) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(1) 
Fail to arrange for the lawful collection, processing, and/or disposal of discarded materials generated on the premises which that person owns, occupies, controls or manages, including failing to maintain a continuous subscription for regular discarded materials removal by a County-authorized service provider, and/or using unauthorized service providers to collect, process, or dispose of discarded materials;
(2) 
Cause, maintain, or permit discarded materials to be placed in a container other than provided for in this chapter;
(3) 
Cause, maintain, or permit the illegal dumping of discarded materials on the right-of-way of any public highway, street, easement or thoroughfare; upon any camping place or public grounds; on any premises or in any container without the express permission of the owner thereof; or into any stream or dry watercourse within the County's jurisdiction; or
(4) 
Cause, maintain or permit the illegal dumping of discarded materials within the County in any manner that violates the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 5383 § 2, 2021)
It is unlawful for any person to place, deposit or dump or cause to be placed, deposited or dumped any discarded materials at any County resource management facility:
(A) 
Without first paying the fees prescribed by the Board of Supervisors; or
(B) 
In violation of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Board of Supervisors for the operation of the County resource management facility. A copy of the fee schedule and the rules and regulations governing the County resource management facility shall be on file at the Department of Public Works and the Clerk of the Board and shall be open to inspection by the public.
(Ord. 5383 § 2, 2021)
(A) 
Private Receptacles. It is unlawful for any person to place, deposit or dump, or cause to be placed, deposited or dumped in any discarded materials receptacles reserved for the use of any other household, business or other entity, any discarded materials without express written permission from such household, business or other entity.
(B) 
Public Receptacles. It is unlawful for any person to place, deposit or dump, or cause to be placed, deposited or dumped any discarded materials in any of the public discarded materials receptacles within the unincorporated areas of the County, unless that person or entity is utilizing the public discarded materials receptacles in conjunction with a legitimate outdoor recreational activity that necessitates the use of public discarded materials containers.
(Ord. 5383 § 2, 2021)
(A) 
The procedures contained in this article and Article X of this chapter for the citation and penalization of persons caught committing the act of illegal dumping are expressly intended as a deterrent and remedy to further the abatement of illegal dumping; to protect residents and the public at large from harm to their health, safety and welfare; to avoid destruction and injury to lives and property; and, to compensate the County for damages incurred as a result of the occurrence of the nuisance activities. Examples of such damages are the costs of cleaning up illegal disposal sites and diverting limited public agency resources to address the nuisance activities through direct enforcement or other programs designed to prevent illegal dumping.
(B) 
Any person who violates the provisions of this article is subject to the enforcement actions specified in Article X of this chapter. The Director is responsible for the enforcement of this article and shall act as the enforcement officer for the purposes of this article. Administrative penalties assessed for each illegal dumping violation, or repeated violation, are as follows:
(1) 
First violation: $2,500;
(2) 
Second violation within a one-year period: $5,000;
(3) 
Third or subsequent violation within a one-year period: $10,000.
(C) 
In a criminal proceeding alleging a violation of this article, upon a prima facie showing by the prosecution that a person's items, solid waste, or property have been found in any location where it is unlawful to dispose of discarded materials, under circumstances which would lead a reasonable trier of fact to conclude that the items had been discarded in that location, or that surveillance data collected under any lawful surveillance program undertaken by the County would lead a reasonable trier of fact to conclude that the person has illegally dumped the materials in violation of this chapter, shall be sufficient to constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person is guilty of a violation of this article.
(D) 
For purposes of conducting any administrative hearing under this chapter, the presence of at least two pieces of addressed mail or other identifying information in the illegally dumped material shall constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person so identified by those items has committed illegal dumping in violation of this article and is subject to the penalties and remedies provided for in Article X of this chapter.
(E) 
In the event of a conviction of a violation of this article and under appropriate circumstances, the court may order the defendant to pay restitution in an amount according to proof to any public entity and/or private party which and/or who has incurred out-of-pocket expenses as a result of restoring the premises used as an illegal dumping site to its prior condition, in addition to any other penalty imposed.
(Ord. 5383 § 2, 2021; Ord. 5492 § 2, 2025)