Baldwin Park, CA Animal Ordinances: Livestock (2026)

Baldwin Park Municipal Code Chapter 92 does not contain a livestock-keeping section; it adopts the Los Angeles County animal ordinance (Sec. 92.01) and otherwise leaves land-use questions to the city's zoning code. The county code's relevant livestock provisions are about control and liability rather than permission: Sec. 10.32.040 makes it a misdemeanor for an owner to allow a wild animal or livestock to run at large on public property or to enter private property without the owner's consent, and Sec. 10.32.050 makes the owner liable to pay for personnel costs and other expenses to restrain, capture, or rescue livestock. The county code's definitions treat livestock as including animals such as horses, cattle, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, and similar farm animals. Critically, whether a resident may keep any livestock at all - horses, goats, sheep, etc. - on a Baldwin Park parcel is determined by the city's zoning code, which in a fully urbanized city typically reserves animal-keeping for specific zones or prohibits it on standard residential lots. Because the city's primary zoning text on livestock was not confirmed here, anyone considering livestock should treat it as likely not permitted on a typical residential lot and verify directly with Baldwin Park Planning/Code Enforcement (626-960-4011) before acquiring any farm animal.