Florissant, MO Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)

045 of the Florissant Code of Ordinances declares all land within the city's corporate limits, including any territory later annexed, to be a bird sanctuary. 050 backs that designation with a citywide ban: it is unlawful to trap, hunt, shoot or attempt to shoot, or to molest in any manner, any wild bird or wild fowl, and it is equally unlawful to willfully disturb or destroy a wild bird's nest or eggs. The only carve-out applies to pest species. If starlings, blackbirds, crows or similar wild fowl congregate in a particular part of the city in numbers large enough to threaten crops, public health or property, the Director of Public Works can find that a nuisance exists and direct that the offending birds be destroyed under his or her supervision; residents cannot make that call themselves.

360 animal-keeping permit. 080's general penalty, which the Municipal Court applies for any Code violation lacking its own punishment schedule. The bird sanctuary designation sits inside Article I of Chapter 205, Animal Regulations, alongside the City's tethering, animal-neglect and steel-trap restrictions, all administered day to day by the Director of Public Works.