San Bernardino, CA Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)

020 states flatly that no person shall have, keep, maintain, breed, sell or trade any dangerous or poisonous animal within the city limits, and separately bans having, keeping, maintaining, breeding, selling or trading any wild, exotic or non-domestic animal that is prohibited by applicable state or federal law. 010 defines "wild, exotic, dangerous or non-domestic animals" broadly as any animals not specifically addressed elsewhere within Title 6, meaning the ban functions as a catch-all for species the code doesn't otherwise regulate by name, such as dogs, cats, livestock or fowl covered in other chapters.

020 as the chapter's sole operative prohibition. 020 incorporates whatever species state or federal law already prohibits, enforcement in practice tracks the California Fish and Game Code's restricted-species list and federal wildlife statutes rather than a separate city-drafted species list. 010, in the neighboring livestock chapter, describe the same general rationale used across Title 6: the city's dense population makes keeping wild or dangerous animals injurious to health and offensive to the community.