Lynwood prohibits keeping any livestock within city limits, including horses, mules, donkeys, goats, sheep, hogs, cattle, and oxen. Pigs and potbellied pigs are separately banned, and slaughtering any animal in the city is unlawful.
LMC 8-1.15 states that 'the keeping of livestock including any horse, mule, ass, goat, sheep, hog, bull, ox, cow or other livestock is prohibited within the city limits of the city of Lynwood.' LMC 8-1.14(c) separately bans any hog, swine, or pig, including potbellied pigs, and LMC 8-1.16 prohibits slaughtering any animal in the city. The only exceptions (LMC 8-1.15 a-b) are animals brought in for an authorized parade or public exhibition for the time reasonably required, and animals kept on property owned by the Lynwood Unified School District as part of a school animal-education program. These restrictions reflect Lynwood's dense, small-lot urban setting, where the code channels animal keeping toward household pets only.
Keeping livestock is a municipal code violation. Animal Control may remove the animal (LMC 8-1.10) and abate the keeping as a prohibited animal and public nuisance (LMC 8-1.14, 8-1.15, 8-1.21), with administrative citations and fines under LMC Chapter 20.
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