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Gov. Code, § 54739 · Chapter 6.5. Contracts of Sanitation or Sewerage Enterprises

Gov. Code, § 54739

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Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)

(a) Any local agency listed in Section 54725 may require any of the following:

(1) Pretreatment of any industrial waste which the local agency determines is necessary in order to meet standards established by the federal or California state government or other regulatory agencies or which the local agency determines is necessary in order to protect its treatment works or the proper and efficient operation thereof or the health or safety of its employees or the environment.

(2) The prevention of the entry of such industrial waste into the collection system and treatment works.

(3) The payment of excess costs to the system for supplementary treatment plants, facilities, or operations needed as a result of allowing the entry into the collection system and treatment works of such industrial waste.

(b) The provisions of this section shall be in addition to other requirements provided for in the respective enabling acts of those local agencies incorporated by reference in subdivision (a).

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1191, Sec. 2.

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https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&sectionNum=54739.
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