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Cal. Gov. Code § 38790

Miscellaneous

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 146 Cal. App. 2d 93 - Matula v. Superior Court (1956)

Most recently applied in Kahan v. City of Richmond (May 2019)

Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

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.

(b) Offal.

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

(d) Inorganic refuse and rubbish.

(e) Anything thrown away as worthless.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.