Lynwood is a dense urban city that prohibits keeping chickens, roosters, and nearly all fowl within city limits, along with all livestock. Only small caged domestic birds such as canaries, parakeets, and finches are allowed as pets.
Under LMC 8-1.14 it is unlawful to keep 'any larger domestic fowl including roosters, chickens, geese, pigeons, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowls, peafowls, peacocks, game birds or other domestic fowl or fowl intended for human consumption or for the production of eggs.' Only small domestic birds (budgies, canaries, cockatiels, doves, finches, lovebirds, parakeets, parrots and similar) are permitted, subject to the pet limits in LMC 8-1.11 (three domestic birds per single-family home). LMC 8-1.15 separately bans all livestock, and LMC 8-1.16 bans slaughtering any animal. The only exceptions (LMC 8-1.14 e) are animals in an authorized parade or exhibition for its duration, and animals in a Lynwood Unified School District program; licensed veterinary and permitted commercial-fowl facilities are also exempt.
Keeping prohibited fowl or chickens is a municipal code violation; the animal may be removed by Animal Control (LMC 8-1.10) and abated as a public nuisance (LMC 8-1.21). Violations are infractions carrying administrative citations and fines under LMC Chapter 20.
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