Placer County, CA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

190(A) sets the baseline pickup rule: garbage and similar putrescible wastes must be removed from any premises no less than once every seven days, and a control officer can shorten that window if conditions risk vector propagation, vermin harborage, nuisance, or a clear and present danger to public health. Subsection B lists specific removal deadlines that apply once a control officer has given notice or issued a citation: putrescible garbage and rubbish must go within 24 hours, dead animals in a residential rural setting within 6 hours, household pet and farm animal wastes within 24 hours, industrial, institutional, commercial and bulky wastes within 48 hours, infectious, pathological, pathogenic and hazardous wastes within 12 hours, and any waste dumped in an unauthorized area within 24 hours.

These are stated as minimums; a control officer may extend them if a serious health hazard would not result from the delay or if the waste volume makes the standard limit excessive, and a health officer can shorten them further if public health or safety is endangered. 200(G)).