San Mateo Municipal Code Ch. 8.04 Animal Care and Keeping

It is unlawful for any person to abuse, misuse, beat, torture, or maltreat any animal, or for the owner or person having custody of any animal to deprive such animal of proper food, water, care and attention.

Prior code § 64.30

No person in the City shall keep or permit to be kept on premises owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her any swine, cows, bulls, calves, sheep, goats, horses, mules, jacks, jennies, peafowl, roosters over four months, or other animals which are exotic or wild, except nonpoisonous reptiles. With a special permit approval from the board of zoning adjustments, the above animals may be kept in an A zone two hundred feet from any property line.

prior code § 64.50

It is unlawful for any person owning or having control or custody of any dog:

(a) To permit or allow the dog to defecate upon the public property of the City or upon the private property of another person without the consent of the occupant or owner of that property unless the owner or the person having control or custody of the dog immediately removes the feces and properly disposes of it;

(b) To walk a dog on public property of the City or upon the private property of a person without carrying at all times a suitable container or other suitable instrument for the removal and disposal of canine feces; or

(c) To fail to dispose of the container of the feces in a sanitary manner.