2005 California Health and Safety Code Sections 117550-117560 Article 6. Prohibited Waste Disposal in Public Places

117550.  As used in this article, "garbage" includes any or all of
the following:
   (a) Garbage.
   (b) Swill.
   (c) Refuse.
   (d) Cans.
   (e) Bottles.
   (f) Paper.
   (g) Vegetable matter.
   (h) Carcass of any dead animal.
   (i) Offal from any slaughterpen or butcher shop.
   (j) Trash.
   (k) Rubbish.
   (l) Abandoned and unidentifiable vehicles or vehicle bodies.
   (m) Abandoned iceboxes and refrigerators.
117555.  Every person who places, deposits, or dumps, or who causes
to be placed, deposited or dumped, or who causes or allows to
overflow, any sewage, sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, or
accumulation of human excreta, or any garbage, in or upon any street,
alley, public highway, or road in common use or upon any public park
or other public property other than property designated or set aside
for that purpose by the governing board or body having charge
thereof, or upon any private property into or upon which the public
is admitted by easement, license or otherwise, is guilty of a
misdemeanor.
   This section does not apply to the placing, depositing, or dumping
of any garbage upon private property by the owner, or any person
authorized by the owner, of the private property, except that the
placing, depositing or dumping of the garbage shall not create a
public health and safety hazard or a fire hazard, as determined by a
local health department, local fire department or fire district, or
the Division of Forestry.
117560.  Every state fish and game warden, police officers of
cities, sheriffs and their deputies and other peace officers of the
State of California, within their respective jurisdictions, shall
enforce the provisions of this article.