Madera, CA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Storage zone
- Front setback line to rear yard fence
- Removal deadline
- Midnight on collection day
- Applies to
- Garbage, recycling, green waste carts
- Related rule
- §5-3.20 bars removing carts from property
- Chapter penalty
- Up to $1,000, misdemeanor
Summary
Madera Municipal Code Section 5-3.24 requires containers to come off the curb and be stored on the property between the front yard setback line and the rear yard fence, and that has to happen no later than midnight on collection day. The rule keeps carts out of the public right-of-way outside the pickup window.
Containers shall be removed from the point of collection and placed on the customer's property between the front yard setback line and the rear yard fence. Removal of the containers from their pick- up location shall be accomplished not later than midnight on the day of collection.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2024 S-50: Current through Ordinance 1010 C.S., passed 6-5-24).
Full Breakdown
24, Storage of Containers, governs where a customer's garbage, recycling, and green waste containers live between collection days. 01 ties to the property's zoning setback, and the rear yard fence. The section sets a firm deadline for that move: removal from the pickup location must be accomplished not later than midnight on the day of collection, so a cart cannot sit at the curb overnight after the truck has already come through. 20's requirement that containers remain in the condition first delivered and not be removed from the property they were assigned to, since moving a cart off-property or leaving it curbside long-term risks the vandalism and theft provisions that section separately addresses.
24 define the full daily cycle for a Madera solid waste account: out to the curb for pickup, back onto the yard by midnight the same day.
Violations & Fines
Failing to remove a container from the curb by the Section 5-3.24 midnight deadline is enforced under Chapter 3's general penalty in Section 5-3.09: up to $500 for a first violation, $750 for a second, and $1,000 for a third or subsequent violation, prosecuted as a misdemeanor under Section 1-2.01 rather than as an infraction.
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