Residents must place carts at the curb the night before their scheduled service day and remove them promptly after collection. Leaving carts at the curb between service days is a municipal-code violation.
The City's residential service rules — built into the Valley Vista franchise and consistent with Title 8 (Health and Safety) of the El Monte Municipal Code — require that the brown, blue, and green carts be set out at the curb no earlier than the evening before the scheduled pickup day and returned to a screened storage location after collection the same day. Carts must be placed with at least three feet of clearance from parked vehicles, mailboxes, and other carts so the automated arm can lift them, with wheels facing the house and handles toward the street. Bulky items, similarly, may only be set out the night before the scheduled pickup day — leaving them out at any other time is expressly identified by the City as a Municipal Code violation.
Storing carts in public view between service days, or setting carts/bulky items out earlier than the night before collection, is a code-enforcement violation. The City's code-enforcement division issues administrative citations; under the standard administrative-citation framework used by El Monte, fines escalate (typically $100 first offense, $200 second, $500 each thereafter for the same violation within 12 months) and unpaid citations may be referred to collections or recorded as a lien.
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