California · Health and Safety Code - HSC

HSC §117485: Every person in charge of any vessel who permits it to be loaded with any garbage with intent that it shall be dumped or deposited from the vessel in or upon any of the navigable waters of this state,

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A vessel operator who knowingly allows garbage to be loaded with intent to dump it in state navigable waters or ocean within 20 miles of the coast commits a misdemeanor.

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Every person in charge of any vessel who permits it to be loaded with any garbage with intent that it shall be dumped or deposited from the vessel in or upon any of the navigable waters of this state, or at any point in the ocean, within twenty miles of any point on the coast line of the state, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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