San Jacinto, CA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Section 8.32.130 of the San Jacinto Municipal Code makes collection in the City of San Jacinto an exclusive franchise matter. If the city awards one or more franchises under § 8.32.120, the franchisee or franchisees have the sole and exclusive right to collect all solid waste found within the city. No person can dispose of solid waste except through such a franchisee, and no person other than a franchisee can collect solid waste within the city. Section 8.32.120 sets what a franchise must contain: service rates and procedures for adjusting them, a franchise fee payable to the city, and insurance maintained by the franchisee. It also states that no franchise provision requires a customer to dispose of recyclable materials or stops a customer from recycling at a facility equipped to do so.

Service is mandatory. Under § 8.32.020(A), every person in charge of a residence, single- or multiple-family, must arrange to have all refuse removed not less than once per week by the permittee. Commercial and industrial buildings and construction sites carry the same weekly duty under subsection (B), and the solid waste supervisor can order higher frequency or capacity where service is inadequate.

The organics chapter names the current hauler obligation: § 8.33.070(D) says CR&R must comply with the education, equipment, signage, container labeling, container color, contamination monitoring and reporting requirements in its franchise agreement. Collection is billed through the water bill under § 8.32.150. A nonresidential account that has not paid within sixty (60) calendar days after billing can lose service, and a single-family or multifamily account unpaid after one hundred twenty (120) calendar days receives a notice with a ten percent (10%) penalty and one and one-half percent (1.5%) monthly interest if payment is not received within fifteen (15) calendar days.

Section 8.32.045 separately bars scavenging from approved containers without the written approval of the person in charge of the premises, except for city employees and city contractors.