38790. 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.(Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 79.)
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