Yucaipa Municipal Code Ch. 6.20 Animal Food and Food Scraps

A. No person shall feed or in any manner provide food for one or more nondomesticated mammalian predators. A nondomesticated mammalian predator shall include coyotes, raccoons, foxes, opossums, bears, mountain lions and bobcats.

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

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

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

(Ord. 163 § 11(A), 1997)

No person shall leave or permit to be left out-of-doors food for any animal between the hours of ten p.m. of any one day and six a.m. of the following day, unless the area where the food is left is not accessible to nondomesticated mammalian predators.

(Ord. 163 § 11(B), 1997)

No person shall leave or permit to be left out-of-doors any garbage containing food scraps without first securing the food scraps in closed containers.

(Ord. 163 § 11(C), 1997)

Sections 6.20.020 and 6.20.030 shall be applicable only in the mountainous and foothills areas of the city.

(Ord. 163 § 11(D), 1997)

A person violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction.

(Ord. 163 § 11(E), 1997)