La Habra Municipal Code Chapter 6.22 bars keeping livestock outside the agricultural or open-space zone without a permit, and caps the count at two mature large animals. Pens must be at least fifty feet from dwellings and ten feet from property lines, with a one-hundred-foot tether rule.
Large-animal keeping in La Habra is regulated under Chapter 6.22. No person may keep any livestock, except in the agricultural zone or open-space declared area, without first securing a permit from the animal control officer. The code caps the number at two mature cattle, goats, horses or other equine, pigs, sheep, or other livestock. Livestock must never run at large and must be confined in a suitable pen. No pen may be within fifty feet of an adjacent dwelling, and no coop or runway within ten feet of any property line. Staking or tying any horse, cow, sheep, pig, mule, llama or goat within one hundred feet of a residence is prohibited.
Keeping livestock without a permit, exceeding two mature animals, or violating the confinement, setback or tethering rules violates Chapter 6.22; first offenses are typically infractions, with repeat violations chargeable as misdemeanors.
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