California Code
DIVISION 30 - WASTE MANAGEMENT
PART 1 - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

ARTICLE 1 - Findings and Declarations

Section 40000. - 40000. The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the...

Section 40001. - 40001. (a) The Legislature declares that the responsibility for solid...

Section 40002. - 40002. (a) As an essential part of the state’s comprehensive...

Section 40003. - 40003. Nothing in this division abrogates, limits, or otherwise affects...

Section 40004. - 40004. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the...

ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions

Section 40050. - 40050. This division shall be known and may be cited...

Section 40051. - 40051. In implementing this division, the board and local agencies...

Section 40052. - 40052. The purpose of this division is to reduce, recycle,...

Section 40053. - 40053. This division, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant...

Section 40054. - 40054. This division, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant...

Section 40055. - 40055. (a) This division, or any rules or regulations adopted...

Section 40056. - 40056. This division, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant...

Section 40057. - 40057. Each county, city, district, or other local governmental agency...

Section 40058. - 40058. The solid waste handling services shall be provided for...

Section 40058.5. - 40058.5. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following...

Section 40059. - 40059. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each county,...

Section 40059.1. - 40059.1. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares both of...

Section 40059.2. - 40059.2. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of...

Section 40059.3. - 40059.3. (a) An ordinance adopted by a city or county...

Section 40059.4. - 40059.4. (a) For purposes of this section, “industrial source” means...

Section 40060. - 40060. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regional...

Section 40061. - 40061. (a) Notwithstanding Section 40059, every local agency which does...

Section 40062. - 40062. (a) Upon the request of any person furnishing any...

Section 40063. - 40063. At the request of a county with a population...

CHAPTER 2 - Definitions

Section 40100. - 40100. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 40105. - 40105. “Authorized recycling agent” means a person that a local...

Section 40106. - 40106. (a) “Biomass conversion” means the production of heat, fuels,...

Section 40110. - 40110. “Board” means the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,...

Section 40115. - 40115. “City” or “county” includes city and county. (Added by...

Section 40115.5. - 40115.5. “Closed disposal site” means a disposal site that ceases...

Section 40116. - 40116. “Compost” means the product resulting from the controlled biological...

Section 40116.1. - 40116.1. “Composting” means the controlled or uncontrolled biological decomposition of...

Section 40117. - 40117. “Gasification” means a technology that uses a noncombustion thermal...

Section 40118. - 40118. “Department” means the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery....

Section 40120. - 40120. “Designated recycling collection location” means the place where an...

Section 40120.05. - 40120.05. “Director” means the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery....

Section 40120.1. - 40120.1. “Disposal” or “dispose” has the same meaning as “solid...

Section 40121. - 40121. “Disposal facility” or “facility” means a facility or location...

Section 40122. - 40122. “Disposal site” or “site” means the place, location, tract...

Section 40124. - 40124. “Diversion” means activities which reduce or eliminate the amount...

Section 40127. - 40127. “Diversion program” means a program in the source reduction...

Section 40130. - 40130. “Enforcement agency” means the local agency designated pursuant to...

Section 40131. - 40131. “Enforcement program” means the regulations and procedures adopted by...

Section 40131.2. - 40131.2. (a) “Engineered municipal solid waste conversion” or “EMSW conversion”...

Section 40131.5. - 40131.5. “Federal act” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...

Section 40135. - 40135. “Fund” means the Integrated Waste Management Fund, which is...

Section 40135.1. - 40135.1. “Account” means the Integrated Waste Management Account created in...

Section 40140. - 40140. “Hazard” includes any condition, practice, or procedure which is...

Section 40141. - 40141. (a) “Hazardous waste” means a waste, defined as a...

Section 40145. - 40145. “Jurisdiction” means a city, county, or regional agency that...

Section 40148. - 40148. “Large state facility” means those campuses of the California...

Section 40150. - 40150. “Local governing body” means the legislative body of the...

Section 40150.1. - 40150.1. “Multicounty regional agency” means a regional agency, as defined...

Section 40150.2. - 40150.2. “Minor violation” means the failure of a person to...

Section 40151. - 40151. “Nondisposal facility” means any solid waste facility required to...

Section 40160. - 40160. “Operator” means a person who operates a solid waste...

Section 40162. - 40162. “Owner” means a person who holds fee title to,...

Section 40170. - 40170. “Person” includes an individual, firm, limited liability company, association,...

Section 40171. - 40171. “Pollution” means the condition caused by the presence in...

Section 40172. - 40172. “Processing” means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion, or recycling...

Section 40180. - 40180. “Recycle” or “recycling” means the process of collecting, sorting,...

Section 40181. - 40181. “Regional agency” means an agency formed pursuant to Chapter...

Section 40182. - 40182. “Regional water board” means a California regional water quality...

Section 40183. - 40183. (a) “Rural city” or “rural regional agency” means a...

Section 40184. - 40184. (a) “Rural county” means a county or multicounty regional...

Section 40190. - 40190. “Segregated from other waste material” means any of the...

Section 40190.5. - 40190.5. “Sharps waste” means waste generated by a household that...

Section 40191. - 40191. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “solid waste”...

Section 40192. - 40192. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...

Section 40193. - 40193. “Solid waste enterprise” means any individual, partnership, joint venture,...

Section 40194. - 40194. “Solid waste facility” includes a solid waste transfer or...

Section 40195. - 40195. “Solid waste handling” or “handling” means the collection, transportation,...

Section 40195.1. - 40195.1. (a) “Solid waste landfill” means a disposal facility that...

Section 40196. - 40196. “Source reduction” means any action which causes a net...

Section 40196.3. - 40196.3. “State agency” means every state office, department, division, board,...

Section 40196.5. - 40196.5. “State board” means the State Board of Equalization. (Added...

Section 40197. - 40197. “State water board” means the State Water Resources Control...

Section 40200. - 40200. (a) “Transfer or processing station” or “station” includes those...

Section 40201. - 40201. “Transformation” means incineration, pyrolysis, distillation, or biological conversion other...

CHAPTER 3 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 40400. - 40400. There is in the California Environmental Protection Agency the...

Section 40401. - 40401. (a) (1) Except as otherwise specified by statute, the...

Section 40402. - 40402. The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may expend...

Section 40403. - 40403. (a) The Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Relations...

ARTICLE 2 - Staff

Section 40430. - 40430. The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery shall be...

Section 40431. - 40431. The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery may appoint...

Section 40432. - 40432. The Attorney General shall represent the board and the...

ARTICLE 3 - Powers and Duties

Section 40501. - 40501. The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may hold...

Section 40502. - 40502. (a) The board shall adopt rules and regulations, as...

Section 40503. - 40503. The board shall maintain its headquarters in the County...

Section 40505. - 40505. In order to carry out its powers and duties...

Section 40506. - 40506. The board may accept grants, gifts and donations for...

Section 40506.1. - 40506.1. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board...

Section 40506.5. - 40506.5. (a) The Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery, with...

Section 40506.7. - 40506.7. For the purposes of disseminating information relating to its...

Section 40507. - 40507. (a) (1) On or before March 1 of each...

Section 40507.1. - 40507.1. (a) As part of the annual report required to...

Section 40508. - 40508. The board is designated as the state solid waste...

Section 40509. - 40509. The board may render technical assistance and make recommendations...

Section 40510. - 40510. The board shall use a rollcall vote for all...

Section 40511. - 40511. (a) Notwithstanding Section 7550.5 of the Government Code, on...

Section 40512. - 40512. (a) The department shall establish a pilot project located...

ARTICLE 4 - Debris Cleanup and Removal

Section 40520. - 40520. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Contract” means...

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California Code DIVISION 30 - WASTE MANAGEMENT PART 1 - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT

California Code
DIVISION 30 - WASTE MANAGEMENT
PART 1 - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT