Elko County, NV Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

Section 7-3-8 sits in Title 7, Chapter 3, the Rabies Control chapter of the Elko County Code, so the Board of County Commissioners framed the coyote rule as a disease-control measure rather than a hunting or predator-control program. The operative sentence says a person shall not keep, harbor or in any way care for, maintain, lodge or feed on private property a bat, skunk, raccoon, fox or coyote. The verbs matter for coyote management on ranches and in subdivisions such as Spring Creek: putting out food that draws a coyote counts as feeding, and sheltering one counts as lodging or harboring. The section does not set out a cull, a hazing protocol or a deer provision.

Subsection (A)2 handles the animal itself. Any person violating the section must, on request of the Rabies Control Authority and the Nevada Department of Wildlife, relinquish the animal to the Rabies Control Authority or the Department of Wildlife. The county does not leave the animal with the violator.

Subsection (B) creates the only exception. The Rabies Control Authority, with the concurrence of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, can grant a person an exemption from the section. That two-agency requirement means a county office alone cannot excuse feeding or keeping a coyote, and the Nevada Department of Wildlife has to agree.

The chapter's own penalty clause, Section 7-3-9, applies to any act in violation of the chapter or any failure to do an act the chapter requires.