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Title 8 — HEALTH AND SAFETY

Chapter 8.48 — DAIRIES AND HOG RANCHES

Long Beach Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · Long Beach

Cross reference— Provisions on sanitation and regulation of milk and milk product sales, see Chapter 8.36 of this Code.

State Law reference— Provisions on milk and milk products, Food and Agric. C. § 32501 et seq.

8.48.010 - Definitions.

A.

"Dairy" as used in this Chapter means and includes any ranch, farm, lot, parcel of real property, building, barn, shed, corral, enclosure or other place where four (4) or more cows are kept or maintained and milked.

B.

"Hog farm" means and includes any ranch, farm, lot, parcel of real property, building, barn, shed, corral, enclosure, sty or other place where ten (10) or more swine are kept or maintained.

C.

"Milk" means and includes milk, cottage cheese, cream and buttermilk.

(Prior code § 5140)

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8.48.020 - Areas prohibited.

No person, as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, shall maintain any dairy or hog farm within that portion of the City described as follows:

A.

Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of American Avenue with the southerly line of Wardlow Road and running thence southerly along said easterly line of American Avenue to the centerline of Anaheim Street; thence east along said centerline of Anaheim Street to the centerline of Orange Avenue; thence south along said centerline of Orange Avenue to the centerline of Eleventh Street; thence east along the centerline of Eleventh Street and the prolongation thereof to the centerline of Temple Avenue; thence southerly along said centerline of Temple Avenue and the prolongation thereof to the southerly boundary line of the City; thence westerly along said southerly boundary line of the City to the prolongation southerly of the centerline of Lime Avenue; thence northerly along said prolongation southerly and said centerline of Lime Avenue to the centerline of First Street; thence west along said centerline of First Street to the centerline of Frontenac Court; thence north along said centerline of Frontenac Court to the centerline of Fourth Street; thence west along said centerline of Fourth Street to the centerline of Golden Avenue; thence

south along said centerline of Golden Avenue and the prolongation thereof to the southerly boundary line of the City; thence westerly along said southerly boundary line of the City to the westerly boundary line of the City; thence northerly along said westerly boundary line of the City and following its various courses to the prolongation southwesterly of a northwesterly boundary line of the City, said northwesterly boundary line of the City being a line one hundred feet northwesterly of, measured at right angles and parallel, to a northwesterly boundary line of the City as said boundary line existed prior to the annexation election of December 28th, 1923; thence northeasterly along said prolongation southwesterly and said northwesterly boundary line of the City and following its various courses to the northerly line of Wardlow Road, as Wardlow Road is shown on map of "Tract No. 6823", as per map recorded in Book 74, page 61 of Maps, Records of the County; thence easterly along said northerly line of Wardlow Road to the westerly line of Perris Avenue; thence easterly in a direct line to the intersection of the easterly line of Perris Avenue with the southerly line of Wardlow Road; thence easterly along said southerly line of Wardlow Road to the westerly right-of-way line of the County flood control channel; thence easterly in a direct line to the intersection of the easterly right-of-way line of the County flood control channel with the southerly line of Wardlow Road and thence easterly along said southerly line of Wardlow Road to the point of beginning.

B.

Or that portion of the City lying east of a line described as follows:

Beginning at the intersection of the prolongation southerly of the centerline of Temple Avenue with the southerly boundary line of the City; and running thence northerly along said prolongation southerly and said centerline of Temple Avenue to the centerline of Eleventh Street; thence west along said centerline of Eleventh Street and the prolongation thereof to the centerline of Orange Avenue; thence north along said centerline of Orange Avenue to the centerline of Anaheim Street; thence west along said centerline of Anaheim Street to the easterly line of American Avenue; and thence northerly along said easterly line of American Avenue to the easterly line of Long Beach Boulevard; thence northerly along said easterly line of Long Beach Boulevard to a point on The Compromise Line between Rancho San Pedro and Rancho Los Cerritos, as said Compromise Line is shown in Licensed Surveyor's Map Book 6, pages 15 and 16, Records of the County, said Compromise Line being also a boundary line of the City; thence in a northeasterly direction along said Compromise Line and following the various courses of the boundary line of the City to the easterly line of Long Beach Boulevard, as Long Beach Boulevard is located at the southerly line of Scott Street, as Scott Street is shown on Map of "Tract No. 9119", as per map recorded in Book 123, pages 33 and 34 of Maps, Records of the County; and thence northerly along the easterly line of Long Beach Boulevard to the northerly boundary line of the City.

(Prior code § 5140.1)

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8.48.030 - Exceptions.

Nothing in this Chapter shall apply to that portion of real property in the City described as:

All that portion of Lot seven, Block twenty-nine, Cooperative Colony Tract, except the east one hundred ninety-two and sixty-five one-hundredths feet thereof, as per map recorded in Book 21, pages 15 to 16, Miscellaneous Records of the County.

(Prior code § 5140.3)

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