Animal Services

Field Operations & Services:

Enforce City and State Laws Relating to Animals

• Pick Up Animals
• Enforce City and State Laws Relating to Animals
• Investigate Humane/Abuse Complaints
• Help Wildlife
• Lost & Found Program
• Bite Reports & Quarantining

Most commonly used Lathrop Ordinances as they relate to animals - There are many others.

• LMC 6.12.180 Dog License Required
• LMC 6.12.140 Rabies Vaccine Required
• LMC 6.12.050 Dogs Prohibited From Running Loose
• LMC 6.12.070 Dogs Must Be Securely Confined to Owners Property
• LMC 6.32.110 Animals Not To Be Public Nuisances, i.e. excessive barking
• LMC 6.32.180 Abandonment Of Animals Prohibited
• LMC 6.12.080 Female Dogs In Heat Must Be Kept Inside
• LMC 6.12.100 Animals To Be Tethered/Secured In Vehicles
• LMC 6.12.230 Dogs Must Wear Collar and License
• LMC 6.16.020 Keeping Livestock Requirements/Roosters Prohibited
• LMC 6.24.020 Animal Bites Required To Be Reported
• LMC 6.24.040 Owner Of Biting Animal Must Quarantine Animal
• LMC 6.32.010 Animals To Be Properly Cared For
• LMC 6.32.020 Animals Not To Be Abused
• LMC 6.32.030 Animals Not To Be Slaughtered In City Limits
• LMC 6.32.040 Animals Not To Be Killed or Butchered In City Limits
• LMC 6.32.040 Poisoning Animals Prohibited
• LMC 6.32.060 Keeping Wild, Exotic & Dangerous Animals & Reptiles Prohibited
• LMC 6.32.100 Sanitary Enclosures For Animals Required
• LMC 6.32.130 Sale Or Gifts Of Animals By Minors Prohibited
• LMC 6.32.140 Animals Not To Be Given Away As Prizes
• LMC 6.32.150 Stray Animals Must Be Reported And/Or Surrendered To Animal Services
• LMC 6.32.170 Animals To Be Curbed/Owners Must Remove Feces From Public Or Private Property

This is a list of some of the California laws related to animals. There are many others. For the text of these laws see the California Penal Code.

• Pen. 596   Poisoning Animals
• Pen. 597   Crimes Against Animals Felony or Misdemeanor
• Pen. 597b  Fighting Animals and Birds (cockfighting)
• Pen. 597c  Training Animals to Fight, or Being Present
• Pen. 597f   Permitting Animals to Go Without Care: Veterinary Care for Injured Cats and Dogs
• Pen. 597i   Trading in Implements for Fighting Birds
• Pen. 597j   Possession of Gamecocks for Fighting Purposes
• Pen. 597s    Abandonment of Dog or Cat
• Pen. 597t   Confinement of Animals
• Pen. 597.5  Fighting Dogs
• Pen. 653o   Endangered Species: Importation and Sale
• Pen. 653p    Endangered Species: Sale of Dead Body
• Pen. 667.83    Ceremonial Mutilation