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Chapter 1 — ANIMALS

Burbank Municipal Code Art. 11 Public Nuisance

Burbank Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-01 · Burbank

Cite as: Burbank Municipal Code Article 11 · Text as of 2026-10-01

5-1-1101: ANIMALS CAUSING HAZARD:

No animal shall be allowed to cause or to constitute a hazard or menace to the health, peace or safety of the community. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-83; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

5-1-1102: DOGS CREATING NUISANCE IN PUBLIC PARKS AND ON SIDEWALKS, ETC.:

No person owning or having custody or control of any dog shall knowingly or through failure to exercise due care or control permit such dog to defecate or commit any other nuisance and allow such nuisance to thereafter remain in any public park, upon the sidewalk or parkway of any street, or upon any private property which is improved or occupied, without the consent of the owner or person in lawful occupation thereof. [Formerly numbered Section 6-84; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2728, 2467.]

5-1-1103: TYING ANIMAL TO TREE OR SHRUB IN PUBLIC PLACE:

No person shall hitch or tie a horse or other animal to a tree or shrub in any street or other public place so as to interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-85; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

5-1-1104: USE OF SIDEWALK OR PARKWAY:

No person shall ride, drive, lead, guide or otherwise conduct any horse or animal other than a dog upon any public sidewalk or parkway except to proceed by the shortest route to the traveled portion of the roadway. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-86; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

5-1-1105: DISPOSAL OF DEAD ANIMALS16:

No person shall place all or any part of the body of a dead animal in any street or other public place or in any garbage or waste matter receptacle. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-87; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

5-1-1106: NUISANCES AT COMMERCIAL STABLES17:

It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any commercial stable to make any unnecessary noises, sounds or vibrations either of a continuing or of an intermittent nature, or produce, cause or emit any dust, fumes, odors or vapors which are annoying to persons of ordinary sensitivity or which are so harsh or so prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their intensity, time or place of occurrence as to cause discomfort to the surrounding inhabitants. [Added by Ord. No. 2467; formerly numbered Section 6-88; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87.]

5-1-1107: FEEDING OF COYOTES PROHIBITED:

A. Feeding Prohibited: No person shall feed or in any manner provide food for one or more nondomesticated mammalian predators, including, but not limited to, coyotes, raccoons, foxes and possums.

B. Exceptions: This section shall not apply in any of the following instances:

  1. Where the person is the owner of such nondomesticated predator and such predator is kept under valid certificate or permit issued by the State of California Department of Fish and Game;

  2. Where the person provides food for a trapped, injured or unweaned, nondomesticated predator between the time the agency in charge of animal control is notified and such predator is picked up by said agency.

C. Violation: A violation of this section shall be an infraction. [Added by Ord. No. 2838; formerly numbered Section 20-210, renumbered and relocated by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 11/16/91; 3058.]

5-1-1108: FEEDING OF PIGEONS SO AS TO CREATE A PUBLIC NUISANCE PROHIBITED:

A. No person shall feed or in any manner provide food for one or more pigeons in such a manner as to create a public nuisance.

B. This section does not apply where the person is the owner of the pigeon or pigeons being fed, and such feeding takes place in an enclosed area on the owner’s property.

C. A violation of this section shall be an infraction. [Added by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 11/16/91.]

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