Yucaipa, CA Animal Ordinances: Coyote Management (2026)

Section 6.20.020 of the Yucaipa Municipal Code, adopted by the Yucaipa City Council in Ordinance 163 in 1997, is the city's practical coyote attractant rule. It bars any person from leaving or permitting food to be left out-of-doors for any animal between ten p.m. of one day and six a.m. of the following day, unless the area where the food is left is not accessible to nondomesticated mammalian predators. Section 6.20.010 supplies that term: it includes coyotes, raccoons, foxes, opossums, bears, mountain lions and bobcats. That means pet food bowls, feed for livestock, and bird or squirrel feed left on a porch overnight in the foothills fall inside the rule unless predators cannot reach them.

Section 6.20.030 adds that no person shall leave or permit to be left out-of-doors any garbage containing food scraps without first securing the food scraps in closed containers. Section 6.20.040 makes §§ 6.20.020 and 6.20.030 applicable only in the mountainous and foothills areas of the City of Yucaipa in San Bernardino County, California, so the nighttime food rule and the closed-container rule do not apply to the flatter parts of town. Section 6.20.010, the separate ban on feeding predators at any hour, is not tied to that limit.

Chapter 6.20 prints food and garbage rules; it does not set out a culling, trapping or hazing program. Chapter 6.04 designates the County of San Bernardino as the enforcement agency for Title 6, and anyone authorized under Chapter 1.12 can also enforce it.