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County animal care authorities enforcing rooster ordinance

by The AV Times Staff • January 25, 2019

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LITTLEROCK – Animal care authorities are enforcing an ordinance that limits the amount of roosters residents can own in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, including Littlerock, Lake Los Angeles, and Quartz Hill, according to the Department of Animal Care and Control.

“This measure was taken to reduce illegal cockfighting and associated criminal activity, outbreaks of avian diseases such as Virulent Newcastle Disease, complaints of noise and odor, and to improve neighboring residents’ quality of life,” DACC officials said in a news release.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the ordinance in Sept. 2018 and it went into effect Jan. 1, 2019.

It states that residents living in unincorporated Los Angeles County can have a maximum of:

  • Two roosters if they own half an acre or less;
  • Four roosters if they own a half to one acre;
  • Six roosters if they own one to five acres; and
  • 10 roosters if they own five or more acres.

An animal facility license is required to keep more roosters than the maximum allowed. The license fee is $25 and requires an annual property inspection. No more than 25 roosters will be allowed under any circumstance, authorities warn.

Violators could be fined up to $100 for the first violation, $250 for the second violation, and $500 for the third violation and each additional violation.

View the new ordinance here.

[Information via news release from the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control.]

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Filed Under: Home, Lake Los Angeles, Littlerock

12 comments for "County animal care authorities enforcing rooster ordinance"

  1. thedude says

    January 28, 2019 at 3:45 pm

    cock fighting is a way of life for the rooster my boy!!

  2. Ron says

    January 26, 2019 at 11:56 am

    Send in ICE.

    • Alexis says

      January 27, 2019 at 9:18 am

      Roosters don’t like ice.

  3. Ana says

    January 25, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    Not necessarily everyone who has roosters fights them !!! Some love and care for them .

    • Tim Scott says

      January 26, 2019 at 2:01 am

      Those people generally don’t keep them in large numbers.

      • ANA says

        January 27, 2019 at 1:54 pm

        very true i had like 20 but mix roosters hens , laying hens baby chickens everything different

  4. Rooster says

    January 25, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    Rooster Lives Matter!

  5. Miguel Vicktinez says

    January 25, 2019 at 2:59 pm

    Well if you deport all the illegal’s you wouldn’t have to worry about enforcing ordinances to prevent cockfighting.

    • Evelyn says

      January 26, 2019 at 7:23 am

      WOW! SMH! you had to bring racism into play… Im sorry you have so much hate that you feel the need to say something so ignorant…

    • Luis says

      January 26, 2019 at 11:33 am

      Deport yourself than a hole

      • Ron says

        January 26, 2019 at 11:56 am

        BUILD THE WALL ENFORCE OUR LAWS.

    • Jose says

      January 28, 2019 at 5:40 pm

      For your information white people are the ones who brought cock fighting to the America’s president Abraham Lincoln use to fight chickens in the white household and not just him Andrew Jackson did too and a few other presidents learn your history I don’t agree with cock fighting but I think it is our constitutional right to own raise and harvest our livestock plus who in they’re right mind will spend 1000 2000 dollars on a rooster just to go kill it because just in case you didn’t know that’s how much show roosters cost

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