Pomona, CA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Pomona City Code Section 62-590 makes it unlawful to deposit solid waste on another person's property or to use someone else's container for waste that is not attributable to that property, and separately bars depositing refuse on any public street, alley, vacant lot or premises, public or private, anywhere in the city. Section 62-592 adds a parallel prohibition on depositing or burying solid waste on any premises, public or private, unless a state or local authority has specifically empowered that disposal. Beyond the standard penalty structure in Section 1-7, Pomona escalated the consequences for larger-scale dumping in 2012 with a nuisance-vehicle ordinance in Chapter 34, Article II.

3(h), which covers dumping more than one cubic yard of refuse, or of Sections 62-590, 62-592 or the street-dumping ban in Section 46-11, is declared a nuisance vehicle, and the person who owns, leases or operates it is guilty of a nuisance. Section 34-42 authorizes police to seize and impound the vehicle once its driver is validly arrested for the dumping offense and has a prior conviction for the same offense within the past three years. Section 34-43 sets the impoundment at 30 days. The registered owner receives certified-mail notice within two working days and can request a post-storage hearing within ten days to contest the impoundment or show mitigating circumstances, such as being unaware the vehicle was used for illegal dumping.