Redlands, CA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- City Code § 13.64.090
- Prohibited
- Dumping/burying waste on any lot, street, waterway
- Exception
- County public sanitary landfill only
- Related ban
- Offensive waste placement, § 13.64.080
- Penalty
- Misdemeanor, up to $1,000 or 6 months
- Enforcement
- Solid waste division director
Summary
Dumping, placing or burying solid waste, green waste, recyclables or any other deleterious or offensive substance on any lot, street, alley or waterway in Redlands is unlawful under City Code section 13.64.090. The only carve-out is waste taken to the San Bernardino County-operated public sanitary landfill; everywhere else, illegal dumping is a chargeable misdemeanor.
No person shall dump, place, or deposit upon, or bury in any lot, land, street, alley, water or waterway within the city any solid waste, including green waste and recyclable materials or substance condemned by the county department of environmental health services, or any other deleterious or offensive substance; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any land used by the county of San Bernardino or its agents as a public sanitary landfill.
Full Breakdown
090 is Redlands' core illegal-dumping ban: no one may "dump, place, or deposit upon, or bury in any lot, land, street, alley, water or waterway" any solid waste, green waste, recyclable material, or other deleterious or offensive substance, with the single exception of material taken to the county-run public sanitary landfill. 080, separately bans depositing solid waste "in a condition which is offensive, unsightly, detrimental to public health or hazardous from fire" on any property, public street, alley, driveway, right of way, or in any river or wash, and bars dumping waste generated at one address into another property's container.
120 makes it a separate offense for anyone other than the owner or the city's authorized collector to remove, tamper with, or meddle with it, with each unauthorized collection treated as its own distinct violation. 310 to check compliance.
Violations & Fines
Illegal dumping under section 13.64.090 or unlawful waste placement under section 13.64.080 is a misdemeanor under section 13.64.320. Absent a specific fine written into the chapter, Redlands' general penalty at section 1.20.020 applies: up to six months in the city or San Bernardino County jail, a fine up to $1,000.00, or both, with each day the dumped material remains treated as a continuing, separately punishable violation under section 1.20.010.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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