Roseville, MN Animal Ordinances: Bird Protection (2026)
Key Facts
- Park rule
- No disturbing or interfering with birds or animals
- Covers
- Birds or animals kept or found in a city park
- Park defined
- City owned or operated park, open space, playground or golf course
- Feeding wild animals
- Banned citywide under § 407.03(a)
- Backyard bird feeder exemption
- Self-enclosed device at least five feet above the ground
- General penalty
- Misdemeanor, fine up to $1,000.00, up to 90 days
Summary
In Roseville, no person can disturb or interfere with any birds or animals kept or found in a city park. Section 701.03(8) is a one-sentence park rule, and it sits in a chapter that also sets leash, cleanup, plant and property protections. Feeding wild animals, including waterfowl, is governed separately by § 407.03.
The following regulations apply in all parks: ... (8) No person shall disturb or interfere with any birds or animals kept or found in such park.
Official source re-checked November 3, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 2).
Full Breakdown
Section 701.03(8) of the Roseville City Code says no person shall disturb or interfere with any birds or animals kept or found in such park. The wording covers two situations: animals kept in a park, and birds or animals simply found there. It makes no distinction among species, so it reaches geese on a lake shore, songbirds in a tree and any other bird in a park. The verbs are broad: disturb and interfere.
The rule applies in every location § 701.01 defines as a park: any city owned or operated public park, open space, playground or golf course. Roseville's Central Park, Langton Lake and other city open space fall under that definition when the city owns or operates them.
Several neighboring subsections of § 701.03 protect the same setting. Subsection (11) allows dogs only on a leash, cord or chain not more than six feet in length, except service animals accompanying a disabled person. Subsection (12) requires the owner or attendant of any animal to carry cleanup utensils and dispose of all feces in a sanitary manner. Subsection (16) bars breaking, cutting, mutilating, injuring, removing or carrying away any tree, plant, flower, shrub, rock, soil, sand, fence, bench or other property. Subsection (15) requires all persons to obey orders or directions of the director or employees of the parks and recreation department.
Bird feeding has its own section outside the parks chapter. Section 407.03(a) says no person shall intentionally feed wild animals within the city, and § 407.02 defines wild animal to include waterfowl. Subsection (c)(2) excepts persons feeding common small backyard birds using self-enclosed feeding devices or containers at least five feet above the ground. Under subsection (d), the administrative fine is $100.00 for the first violation, $200.00 for the second and $300.00 for each subsequent violation within a 24-month period, and the community development department enforces it. Those fines belong to § 407.03, not to the park rule quoted here.
Violations & Fines
Section 701.03 prints no penalty of its own. The general penalty in § 102.01(a) covers any person violating a provision of the Code unless otherwise provided: a misdemeanor, with a fine not to exceed $1,000.00, or imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both, and costs of prosecution can be added. The $100.00, $200.00 and $300.00 administrative fines in § 407.03(d) apply to feeding wild animals, not to disturbing animals in a park.
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