Roseville, MN Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Section 405.02(5) of the Roseville City Code appears in the list of public nuisances affecting public comfort or repose. Under the heading Keeping of non-domestic animals, it reads in full: the keeping of animals other than those commonly called poultry or bees. The definitions in Section 405.01 explain the target: non-domestic animals are animals kept outside the home for purposes of food or pleasure, such as cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, llamas, goats or other similar animals. Domestic animals, by contrast, are animals kept within the home as pets such as fish, dogs, cats, household birds and similar animals.

Poultry is named only as the carve-out. The word poultry appears nowhere else in the exported Code, and the word chickens does not appear at all, so the Code prints no coop standard, flock cap, setback or permit for backyard hens in the text reviewed.

Horses have their own license. Section 501.19 bars keeping any riding horse within the city for over 30 days without a license. The horse must be kept in an adequately fenced pasture of a minimum size of three acres, with no more than three horses in that pasture at one time, and each horse beyond three requires an additional one acre of fenced pasture. The license fee is set in the city fee schedule, the city council grants the license, and it runs for the life of each horse without annual renewal. The city manager issues a tag that is affixed to the horse.

Section 501.21 separately makes it unlawful to keep any wild animal within the city limits, except as permitted by that section. Section 405.06 gives the community development director enforcement of Chapter 405, and Section 501.24 lets any community service officer, reserve officer or police officer enter private land where there is reasonable cause to believe the animal chapter is being violated.