Yolo County, CA Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

01 defines "litter" broadly to include garbage, rubbish, and refuse, everything from putrescible food waste to construction and demolition debris, but excludes clean fill dirt. 02(a) makes it unlawful for anyone to place, deposit, or dump litter, or let it accumulate, on any public or private property within the unincorporated area, except as the section allows. Subsection (b) gives a narrow exception to occupants of land used entirely for commercial agriculture, including dairying or poultry raising: they may bury their own operational refuse on their own property, but only if the burial site is at least 800 feet from the nearest building used for human habitation, and they cannot let anyone else use their land for disposal unless the Board of Supervisors has formally designated it a disposal area.

Subsection (c) recognizes only the dumps the Board designated, including those maintained by the Cities of Woodland, Davis, and Winters and by the County as of November 5, 1969, as lawful disposal areas. 04 assigns primary enforcement to the County Health Officer. The Sheriff's Office is required to periodically report citations or arrests made under this chapter during normal patrol activity, and any county employee, agency member, or other government personnel who discovers a violation must report it to, and cooperate with, the Health Officer. 03, enforced the same way.