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Health and Safety Code § 117480

ARTICLE 2. Pollution of Navigable Waters with Garbage

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 117480Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.

Every person who places, deposits, or dumps any garbage in or upon the navigable waters of this state, or who places, deposits, or loads it upon any vessel, with intent that it shall be dumped or deposited in or upon the navigable waters of this state, or at any point in the ocean within twenty miles of any point on the coast line of the state, is guilty of a misdemeanor.