No person shall keep or maintain any wild, exotic, or nondomesticated animal within the corporate city limits without first obtaining a permit from the animal services manager. In addition to all information required in the application, the applicant shall substantiate, to the satisfaction of the animal services manager, the following facts:
(1) 
The feral/exotic or nondomesticated animals, at the location proposed, will not jeopardize, endanger, or otherwise constitute a menace to the public health or safety; and
(2) 
The proposed site is adequate in size and shape to accommodate the number and type of animals for which the permit is requested without harm to the animals or material detrimental to the use, enjoyment or valuation of the property of other persons located in the vicinity of the site.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
The fee for a wild/exotic or nondomesticated animal permit shall be set by resolution of the city council.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
No person owning or, having charge, custody, control or possession of any wild/exotic or nondomesticated animal shall permit or allow the same to run at large upon public or private property in such manner as to endanger the life or limb or any person lawfully entering such premises.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
This chapter shall not apply to any wild/exotic or non- domesticated animal caged in a safe and humane manner while being transported through the city, or while such animal is within the city under the control of a city-licensed circus, carnival, traveling show or collection of animals for exhibition.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to have, keep, or maintain any hive or swarm of bees within the city without a permit. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the keeping of bees within an educational institution for study, or observation within a physician's office or laboratory for medical research, treatment, or other scientific purposes, provided they are not permitted to fly at large.
(b) 
No person shall have, keep, or maintain any apiary of ten or more colonies, hives or swarms of bees without first obtaining a conditional use permit from the planning commission.
(c) 
Prior to a permit being issued, in addition to all information required in the application, the applicant shall substantiate, to the satisfaction of the animal services manager, the following facts:
(1) 
The apiary, hive, colony or swarm of bees, at the location proposed, will not jeopardize, endanger, or otherwise constitute a menace to the public health or safety; and
(2) 
All bee hives, colonies, apiaries and swarms of bees are registered with the Orange County Department of Agriculture.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978; Ord. 1228 § 1, 1992)
The animal services manager may revoke any permit provided for under this chapter for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 918 § 1, 1978)
(a) 
It is unlawful for any person to feed or in any manner provide food for nondomesticated mammalian predators such as coyotes (Canis latrans). This section shall also include a ban on feeding or providing food to raccoons, foxes, skunks, opossums, and squirrels.
(b) 
It is unlawful for any person to feed or in any manner provide food for any bird species within city parks.
(c) 
Exceptions.
(1) 
An owner in legal possession of a nondomesticated animal that is kept under a valid permit issued by the city pursuant to Section 6.22.010 of this chapter.
(2) 
When a person provides food and water to a trapped, injured or unweaned nondomesticated animal during the time animal services is notified and the animal has been picked up.
(Ord. 1229 § 1, 1992; Ord. 1357 § 1, 1999; Ord. 1660 § 2, 2021)
It is unlawful to wilfully or recklessly disturb, move, obstruct, or damage any humane trap placed and set by the city of Laguna Beach animal services, municipal services, or their representatives.
(Ord. 1357 § 2, 1999)