Chula Vista, CA Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

160 makes it unlawful 'to wound, kill or catch or to attempt to wound, kill or catch any bird or other animal except on the direction of the City', a direct anti-harm rule for wildlife within City park and recreation boundaries. 170, separately bars giving or offering 'any tobacco, alcohol or other known noxious substances' to any animal or bird. 015(B) to include the land, buildings, parking lots, streets and sidewalks within a City park's territorial boundaries. 010, is to regulate activities in public parks and recreation facilities to protect the public's enjoyment and safety of those spaces, and the City Council authorized the Directors of Recreation and Public Works to post signage and adopt rules to carry the chapter out.

160 traces to a 1961 ordinance (Ord. 857) and was last amended by Ordinance 2651 in 1995. Because the prohibition is scoped to City parks and recreation areas, it does not reach bird-harming conduct on private property outside those boundaries, which is instead governed by state Fish and Game Code provisions the City did not author.