Huntington Park, CA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)
Key Facts
- Yard waste defined
- Leaves, grass cuttings, and shrubs from routine maintenance
- Who collects
- The franchisee only, with listed exceptions
- Gardener exception
- Incidental to gardening services, not a hauling service
- Limit on the exception
- Not collected by a third party hired mainly to collect it
- Burning
- Banned except in an approved, permitted incinerator
- Misdemeanor fine
- Up to $1,000 under § 6-2.111
Summary
In the City of Huntington Park, California, only a franchisee can collect discarded solid waste, but a gardener or landscaper can haul yard waste and green waste as an incidental part of gardening or landscaping services rather than as a hauling service. The code defines yard waste as leaves, grass cuttings, and shrubs from routine household or property maintenance.
(a) It is unlawful for any person other than a franchisee (or its agents and employees) to collect any discarded solid waste including recyclable material, within the City. This prohibition shall not, however, apply to: ... (4) The collection of yard waste, green waste and related solid waste by a gardener or landscaper as an incidental part of the gardening or landscaping services provided to its customers, rather than as a hauling service, provided that such solid waste is not collected by a third party hired for the primary purpose of collecting said materials;
Full Breakdown
The operative yard waste rule is Huntington Park Municipal Code § 6-2.107(a), which reserves the collection of discarded solid waste, including recyclable material, in the City of Huntington Park to a franchisee, its agents, and its employees. Subsection (a)(4) carves out the collection of yard waste, green waste, and related solid waste by a gardener or landscaper as an incidental part of the gardening or landscaping services provided to customers, rather than as a hauling service. The carve-out fails if the waste is collected by a third party hired for the primary purpose of collecting it, so anyone hired mainly to haul these materials has to be the franchisee.
Section 6-2.100 defines yard waste as all leaves, grass cuttings, and shrubs that accompany routine household or property maintenance functions. Residents can still move their own material: § 6-2.107(a)(2) lets an owner, tenant, or occupant who subscribes to franchisee service collect materials generated at his or her own premises for delivery to a lawful disposal or recycling facility, though that exemption does not permit hiring anyone other than a franchisee to do the collection.
The City's Organic Waste Disposal Reduction article adds vocabulary. Section 6-2.403 defines organic waste to include green material and landscape and pruning waste. It also defines an uncontainerized green waste and yard waste collection service as one that collects green waste and yard waste placed in a pile or bagged on the street in front of a generator's house or place of business, for transport to a facility that recovers source separated organic waste. Single-family generators must subscribe to the City's organic waste collection services under § 6-2.404(a). Self-haulers under § 6-2.410(b) must haul source separated green container organic waste to a solid waste facility, operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers source separated organic waste. Section 6-2.107(d) separately bars burning solid waste outside an approved, permitted incinerator or device, and § 6-2.107(f) bars depositing solid waste on another person's property or on any street, driveway, highway, or alley.
Violations & Fines
A non-franchisee who collects discarded solid waste outside the listed exceptions violates § 6-2.107(a). Under § 6-2.111 each day is a separate offense, prosecuted as a misdemeanor (fine up to $1,000, up to six months in the City or County Jail, or both) or as an infraction ($100 for a first violation, $200 for a second within one year, $500 for a third or later). Organics article violations go through administrative citations under § 6-2.415, with base penalties of $50 to $100, $100 to $200, and $250 to $500.
Frequently Asked Questions
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