Davis addresses animal hoarding through the adopted Yolo County animal-control code and California animal-cruelty law. Keeping too many animals in unsanitary or neglectful conditions is enforceable as cruelty and as a public nuisance.
Davis has no stand-alone hoarding ordinance, but hoarding is reached through overlapping rules. Davis Municipal Code Section 5.04.010 adopts Yolo County Code Title 6, which governs animal care, sanitation, impoundment, and cruelty, and Section 5.02.010 adopts the county's vicious-animal regulations. Keeping animals in numbers or conditions that produce filth, odor, disease, or suffering is enforceable as a public nuisance under DMC Chapter 23 and Section 5.01.040, which requires any permitted keeping to be clean, sanitary, and free of nuisance, with a right of entry for inspectors under 5.01.050. California Penal Code Section 597 separately makes animal cruelty and neglect a crime. Yolo County Animal Services investigates welfare complaints and can impound animals kept in cruel or hoarding conditions.
Hoarding animals in unsanitary or neglectful conditions can be charged as cruelty under California Penal Code 597 and abated as a nuisance under DMC Chapter 23. Yolo County Animal Services may seize animals, and violators face misdemeanor charges.
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