Lynwood has no ordinance using the word hoarding, but its strict household pet limits, care standards, special-permit requirement, and state cruelty law together let officials act when too many animals are kept in unsafe conditions.
Lynwood addresses hoarding through layered rules rather than a single hoarding law. LMC 8-1.11 caps household animals (three dogs and cats combined and five total in a single-family home; four in a multiple-family unit), and anyone over the limit needs a special animal permit under LMC 8-1.47. LMC 8-1.8 sets duty-of-care standards for food, water, space, shelter, and sanitation, and 8-1.10 lets Animal Control remove animals not cared for humanely. LMC 8-1.21 declares unsanitary or overcrowded conditions a public nuisance subject to abatement and impoundment. California Penal Code 597 and 597.1 make it a crime to neglect or overcrowd animals and authorize seizure. Together these permit inspection, over-limit enforcement, seizure, and criminal referral where too many animals are kept.
Enforcement combines the city's pet limits, care standards, and nuisance abatement with state cruelty law. Officials may cite over-limit keeping (LMC 8-1.11), impound animals (8-1.10, 8-1.21), seize under Penal Code 597.1, and refer neglect for prosecution.
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