Los Angeles Ordinance 185489 (LAMC section 195.20) bars food and beverage facilities from automatically providing single-use plastic straws. Straws must be offered only on request and ideally non-plastic. California AB-1884 imposes a parallel statewide rule on full-service restaurants.
LAMC chapter XIX article 5 section 195.20 makes Los Angeles a straws-on-request city. Restaurants, fast-food outlets, coffee shops, food trucks, and beverage retailers cannot place plastic straws at self-service stations or hand them out automatically with drinks. They may provide a single straw if the customer affirmatively asks, and the city encourages compostable or paper alternatives. Persons with disabilities must be accommodated upon request without burden. California AB-1884 (Public Resources Code section 42270) covers full-service dine-in restaurants with the same rule. The Bureau of Sanitation enforces locally with warnings and escalating fines after repeat violations.
Auto-distributing plastic straws violates LAMC section 195.20 and triggers a written warning, then fines starting around twenty-five dollars per violation up to several hundred dollars for repeats.
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