Burbank Municipal Code Art. 3 Restrictions on Keeping Animals

No person shall keep any of the following animals within the City, except in a circus, carnival, motion picture studio, television studio, pet shop, parade or at the City Animal Shelter:

Alligator, alpaca, anaconda snake, anoa, aoudad, ape, badger, bat, bear, beaver, bobcat, buffalo, bull, caiman, calf, camel, chamois, cheeta, chimpanzee, civet, coatimundi, cougar (puma), cow, coyote, crocodile, deer, eagle, eland, elephant, elk, gibbon, giraffe, goat, guinea hen, hippopotamus, hyena, jack rabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, kangaroo, koala, leopard, lion, lion (sea), llama, lynx, mongoose, moose, mountain sheep, orangutan, ostrich, otter (sea), panda, piranha, poisonous reptiles, porcupine, puma (cougar), rhinoceros, rooster, sea lion, sea otter, seal, sheep, skunk, tiger, tortoise, vulture, wallaby, walrus, warthog, weasel, wolf, yak, zebra. [Formerly numbered Section 6-18; Amended by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 11/16/91; 3058, 2667, 2467.]

A. Permit Required: No person shall keep any nondomestic animal not listed in Section 5-1-301 of this article without first obtaining a permit from the Animal Shelter Superintendent so to do.

B. Permit Fee: Applicants for such permit shall pay a permit fee of five dollars ($5.00) per animal per year; provided, however, that no permit fee hereunder shall be required of a circus, carnival, fair or similar exhibition paying license fee under Section 3-3-104 or 3-3-107 of this code.

C. Duration of Permit: All permits provided for in this section shall be valid for the calendar year of issue only and shall expire on December 31 following the issuance thereof.

D. Granting of Permit: Upon receipt of an application for a permit to keep such animals, the Animal Shelter Superintendent shall grant such permit and issue the same if they are satisfied that such animal will be kept in a safe, secure and proper manner and without menacing the safety of any person or property. As a condition of granting the permit, they may require that such animal be properly caged or tethered and may make and issue regulations regulating the keeping or maintaining of such animals within the City.

E. Grounds for Revocation of Permit: Any permit issued under this section may be revoked when any provision of this code or any condition or regulation issued by the Animal Shelter Superintendent is violated, or when, in the opinion of said Animal Shelter Superintendent, the safety of any person or property is menaced by the keeping of such animal.

F. Nuisance, When Created: It is hereby declared a nuisance for any person to keep any such animal without complying with this section, or to allow such animal to escape and injure or damage any person or property. In addition to any other remedy in this code, penal or otherwise, the City Attorney may institute an action to summarily abate such nuisance, and if a permit has been issued it may be summarily revoked by the Animal Shelter Superintendent.

G. Exception: This section shall not apply to any such animal properly caged in a safe manner, when being transported through the City by the most direct permissible route, and in an expeditious manner in continuous movement without any unnecessary delays except for delays necessitated by obedience to official traffic control devices or the directions of a duly authorized police officer. [Formerly numbered Section 6-19; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2467.]

A. Animals Generally; Exceptions: No person shall keep any animal, wild or domestic, other than horses, dogs, cats, pigs, fish, white mice, rats, turtles, canaries or birds of the parrot or psittacine family within thirty five feet (35') of any inhabited structure, school or hospital.

B. Keeping of Pigeons: No person shall keep birds of the pigeon or columbidae family within twenty feet (20') of any inhabited structure located on the property upon which the birds are kept.

C. Keeping of Certain Animals: No person shall keep more than four (4) each of the following animals within thirty five feet (35') of any inhabited structure, school or hospital:

Gerbils, gopher snakes, guinea pigs, hamsters, king snakes, parrots, parakeets, amazons, cockateels, cockatoos, lories, lorikeets, love birds, macaws, and similar birds of the psittacine family, any similar animal, which in the opinion of the Animal Shelter Superintendent, is not either more obnoxious or detrimental to the public welfare than the animals enumerated herein. [Formerly numbered Section 6-20; Amended by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 11/16/91; 3058, 2668, 2467.]

A. Limitations on Kind and Number: No person shall keep any crowing roosters or more than twenty five (25) live birds or domestic fowl, or rabbits, or chinchillas, or similar birds, fowl or animals, or more than twenty five (25) of any combination thereof, upon any lot or separate parcel of land or upon any number of contiguous lots or separate parcels of land under the same ownership or possession, or owned or in possession of any person, upon land the use of which is restricted or zoned for residential purposes by this code or any other ordinance of the City; provided, however, that crowing roosters or more than twenty five (25) birds may be kept on residentially zoned property if a permit therefor is obtained from the Animal Shelter Superintendent and maintained in full force and effect, as hereinafter provided.

B. Permit Procedure: No permit for more than twenty five (25) birds shall be issued by the Animal Shelter Superintendent until the application for the same has been submitted to and approved by the City Planning Commission following a public hearing before the City Planning Commission pursuant to notice given within the time and in the same form and manner as given on application for a conditional use permit pursuant to Section 10-1-1942 of this code, except publication shall not be required. Each applicant shall deposit with the Building Director an application fee of twenty five dollars ($25.00) to cover the cost of processing said application.

C. Limitations and Conditions on Approval: The City Planning Commission shall not approve any such application where it finds and determines that the granting of such an application would be detrimental to the public health and safety, or would unreasonably interfere with the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of surrounding or neighboring property. The City Planning Commission in approving any application may impose reasonable conditions in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare.

D. Appeal from Decision of City Planning Commission: Any person aggrieved by the decision of the City Planning Commission may appeal therefrom to the Council as provided in Section 2-1-1513 of this code. In such an event the City Clerk shall also give notice of the hearing before the Council within the time and in the manner specified for giving notice of the hearing before the City Planning Commission. Each Notice of Appeal shall be accompanied by an appeal fee of ten dollars ($10.00).

E. Issuance, Renewal and Revocation of Permit: Upon compliance with the foregoing and approval of an application under this section, the Animal Shelter Superintendent shall issue a permit to the applicant for the maintenance of crowing roosters or birds in the number and in the manner specified in the decision providing the applicant otherwise complies with the provisions of this article and other provisions of this code. Said permit shall be renewed annually following inspection by the Animal Shelter Superintendent upon payment of an annual permit fee of ten dollars ($10.00) providing the applicant has continued to comply with all terms and conditions of said permit and the provisions of this article and other provisions of this code. The permit of any applicant who fails to continually comply with any of

such terms, conditions and provisions may be revoked as provided in Sections 2-1-1520 and 2-1-1521 of this code. [Formerly numbered Section 6-21; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87. Amended by Ord. No. 22-3,983, eff. 12/16/22; 2733, 24670.]

No person shall keep any hive of bees within two hundred feet (200') of any residence, hospital, sanitarium, public eating place, school, church, office building, store, hotel, apartment house, rooming house, or any other place of habitation. This section shall not apply to the keeping of bees within an educational institution for study or observation, or within a physician’s office or laboratory for medical research, treatment, or other scientific purposes, provided they are not permitted to fly at large. [Formerly numbered Section 6-22; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2467.]

No person shall keep any animal which is known or believed by them to be infected with any dangerous or communicable disease, or which is afflicted with any painful disease believed by them to be incurable, without a permit so to do from the Health Officer of the City. [Formerly numbered Section 6-23; renumbered by Ord. No. 3058, eff. 2/21/87; 2467.]

A. No person shall keep or maintain, or allow to be kept or maintained upon any premises owned or controlled by them, more than one Vietnamese potbellied pig. However, Vietnamese potbellied pigs with an adult weight of one hundred (100) pounds or more are prohibited. No other species of pig or hog may be permitted to be kept or maintained within the City.

B. No person shall keep a Vietnamese potbellied pig without first obtaining a permit pursuant to Section 5-1-302 of this article. [Added by Ord. No. 3276, eff. 10/16/91.]

A. No person shall be allowed to own, possess or keep more than one pygmy goat at any residence, business or any other location within the City of Burbank.

B. No person shall own or possess any pygmy goat at any residence, business or any other location within the City of Burbank without first obtaining a permit pursuant to the requirements of Section 5-1- 302 of this article. [Added by Ord. No. 3397, eff. 3/11/95.]