Chapter 8.84
FEEDING OF CERTAIN PREDATOR ANIMALS
Sections:
8.84.010 Providing Food for Certain Rodents or Predator Animals Prohibited.
8.84.020 Feeding Animals Permitted When.
8.84.010 Providing Food for Certain Rodents or Predator Animals Prohibited.
A. Except as otherwise provided for herein, no person shall feed or in any manner provide food to a nondomesticated rodent or a nondomesticated mammalian predator.
B. For purposes of this chapter:
1. “Rodent” includes ground squirrels;
2. “Mammalian predators” includes coyote, raccoon, fox and opossum. (Ord. 91-29, 8/13/91)
8.84.020 Feeding Animals Permitted When.
A person may feed or provide food to a nondomesticated rodent or a nondomesticated mammalian predator under the following instances:
A. When the person is the owner of such a rodent or mammalian predator, and such rodent or predator is kept under a valid certificate or permit issued by the State of California Department of Fish and Game;
B. When the person feeds or provides food to a trapped, injured or unweaned nondomesticated rodent or predator between the time the agency in charge of animal control or its designated agent is notified and picked up by said agency. (Ord. 91-29, 8/13/91)
8.84.030 Violation—Penalty.
A violation of any provision of this chapter shall be an infraction. (Ord. 91-29, 8/13/91)