Victorville, CA Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Cat license
- Voluntary, not required by city code
- Eligibility
- Cats over 4 months, current rabies shot
- License term
- Runs concurrent with rabies vaccination
- Impound hold
- Per California state law, not fixed local hours
- First-year waiver
- Free if chipped, spayed/neutered, vaccinated
Summary
Victorville does not require cat owners to license their cats. Cats over four months with current rabies shots qualify for a voluntary license tied to their rabies vaccine cycle, and impounded strays are held under state law rather than a fixed local hold period.
(7)Cat Licenses. All cats which are over the age of four months and are current in their rabies vaccination are eligible for a voluntary cat license. This license shall run concurrent with the cat's rabies vaccination. The fee for such license shall be as set forth in Section 7.04.060.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 57).
Full Breakdown
060. 050(1). Because there is no mandatory cat license, Victorville has no municipal ordinance establishing a feral colony trap-neuter-release program or a distinct cat-at-large citation scheme; loose-cat and feral-cat management runs through the general animal impoundment chapter instead. 160(d), stray cats that are impounded 'will be held in accordance with State law,' and if a cat over four months old has not been vaccinated or microchipped when impounded, the owner must pay vaccination and microchipping fees, on top of impound and apprehension fees, before reclaiming it. 1 to microchipping of reclaimed or adopted-out cats. 050(9). 050(8).
Violations & Fines
There's no infraction for an unlicensed cat because the license is voluntary. But an impounded, unvaccinated or unmicrochipped cat cannot be reclaimed until the owner pays for vaccination and microchipping plus impound and apprehension fees under Section 7.04.160(d), and keeping cats in numbers or conditions that create a nuisance remains punishable under Section 7.04.035(6) and (7).
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