Huntington Park, CA Animal Ordinances: Beekeeping (2026)

Huntington Park Municipal Code § 6-1.403(b) places the beekeeping rule inside the City's Vector Control and Management article. The City Council of Huntington Park, in Los Angeles County, treats bees as a vector, and the text bars any property owner or tenant from maintaining or permitting a beehive, nest, or swarm. A commercially managed European beehive that has become Africanized falls inside the ban. Section 6-1.401 supplies the vocabulary: a beehive means managed bees, a nest means feral bees, and either one is a colony of bees. A swarm is a number of bees, including a queen, leaving a hive to start a new colony.

Subsection (c) holds the only exception. The ban does not restrict a professional beekeeper if the City's zoning code does not prohibit the activity, and the code defines that person as someone who holds a current registration as a beekeeper with the County of Los Angeles Department of Agriculture. The article prints no other exception.

Enforcement runs through two bodies. Under § 6-1.402, any building, structure, or premises found or reported to be infested with feral bees is declared a public nuisance and must be abated by the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District, by the property owner, or by the City at the owner's expense. Under § 6-1.404 the District can enter property without hindrance or notice to inspect for vectors and treat the property, and it handles bees on private property except those inside or attached to a private structure, which it refers to the City. When the City acts under § 6-1.406 and no emergency exists, the notice to abate requires the owner to abate within 25 days from the date of the notice, or to attend a hearing set not sooner than 10 days nor longer than 15 days out. Before the City or its contractor enters private property to inspect or abate without an emergency, it must obtain the owner's consent or a search warrant.