Pico Rivera has no ordinance using the term hoarding, but its kennel limits, sanitation rules, and cruelty provisions address excessive animal-keeping. Four or more dogs or cats triggers kennel status, and neglect is enforced under state law.
Pico Rivera has no dedicated animal-hoarding ordinance, but several provisions combine to address it. The Title 6 kennel definition makes four or more dogs, or four or more cats, over four months old a kennel not permitted in ordinary residential zones, so accumulating animals beyond those limits is itself a violation. The code requires premises where animals are kept to be clean and sanitary, and authorizes the director of animal care and control (SEAACA) to enforce state Penal Code cruelty provisions and take possession of abandoned or neglected animals. Keeping an animal with an incurable painful disease without a health-officer permit is also barred. Together these let SEAACA intervene where animals are kept in neglectful conditions, subject to seizure.
Over-limit animals, unsanitary conditions, and neglect or cruelty are enforceable. SEAACA may seize abandoned or neglected animals and enforce California Penal Code cruelty statutes; over-limit keeping is separately citable as an unpermitted kennel.
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