By gift, purchase, or condemnation any city may acquire land within the county where the city is located for garbage disposal sites and rights of way for roadways to the site. “Garbage” includes:

(a) Animal, fruit, and vegetable refuse.

Terms Used In California Government Code 38790

  • City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
  • County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.

(b) Offal.

(c) Leaves and cuttings, trimmings from trees, shrubs, and grass.

(d) Inorganic refuse and rubbish.

(e) Anything thrown away as worthless.

(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)

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