Rapid City, SD Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

16 targets the attractant, not the animal. 020(A) makes it unlawful to purposely or knowingly feed, bait or otherwise provide access to food for any wild animal or waterfowl on land anyone owns or occupies within Rapid City, and subsection B extends the ban to purposely leaving or storing refuse, garbage, pet food, forage, salt, seed, birdseed, fruit or grain in a way that would attract wildlife. 010(D) is deliberately broad: a wild animal is any animal not normally domesticated in South Dakota, and the code names coyotes, deer, turkeys, feral cats, foxes, raccoons, skunks and waterfowl as examples, so a coyote drawn to unsecured trash or deliberately baited food falls squarely within the ban.

Farm animals lawfully kept in the city are exempt from the feeding prohibition, and the section shields two categories of official wildlife management: state Game, Fish and Parks agents running a wildlife or waterfowl management program, and city agents implementing an alternative control method under an approved community-based deer management plan while holding a special deer management permit from GF&P, which is the mechanism the city would use for any organized cull or hazing operation aimed at coyotes or deer. 16 carries its own penalty clause tying enforcement to the Title 6 general penalty.