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:
(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)
