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

50 in Division V of Title 10, Offenses Against Property, and states the flat rule: throwing garbage or scraps in or on any public place is unlawful unless it goes into a receptacle placed there for that purpose. The section supplies no exceptions and no separate fine schedule, so its penalty comes from the code's general provisions. 010, violating any provision of the Municipal Code is a misdemeanor unless another ordinance specifies a different punishment, and a misdemeanor conviction carries a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment of not more than six months, or both.

020 lets the city attorney or city prosecutor instead charge the violation as an infraction, with fines capped at $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second within 12 months, and $500 for a third; a fourth violation within that 12-month window can be charged as a misdemeanor even though the first three were infractions. 050 treats each day a violation continues as a separate offense, so a dumped pile left in a public right-of-way or park can generate a new violation daily until it is removed.

160 makes it unlawful to dump or place material into, or utilize, a container provided under the solid waste chapter without the owner's or lessee's consent when a notice on the container advises of the restriction. Together these sections give code enforcement and police overlapping tools to cite both a one-time dumping incident and an ongoing accumulation of garbage in a public place.