Newark, OH Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

Newark has no coyote-specific culling or hazing ordinance in its Code of Ordinances. The rule that governs how wild animals, coyotes included, may be taken inside the City of Newark, Ohio is Section 618.20, Hunting and Trapping Prohibited, enacted by Newark City Council in Licking County. Division (c)(1) says no person shall hunt or trap birds or other animals within city limits by any means except humane box traps. All other types of traps and trapping are prohibited, and any non-companion animal trapped under the section must be destroyed.

The code defines both terms broadly. Hunting covers pursuing, shooting, killing, lying in wait for or wounding birds or other animals, and includes every act of assistance. Trapping covers any device designed to close upon, hold or confine an animal. Self-defense is excluded from both. Law enforcement officers and bona fide pest exterminators acting within their official duties or employment to protect public health, safety and welfare are also outside the prohibition, as is a person recovering his own pet or using a standard mouse or rat trap on vermin in a home or business.

The city's managed wildlife reduction is the deer program. Under division (c)(2), anyone registered with and approved by the Director of Public Safety may hunt deer within city limits, but only in full compliance with the policies and procedures of the Division of Safety, Urban Deer Hunting Program. Anyone claiming that program as cover without registration, or registered hunters who depart from its procedures, are deemed to have violated the general ban. Division (c)(5) adds that using a firearm for the purpose of hunting under the program is a violation regardless of the program's current or future policies. A parallel registration structure in (c)(6) through (c)(8) covers geese in designated areas under the Urban Goose Hunting Program.

Separately, Section 618.22(a)(14) lists coyote among the animals no person may possess in the City.