Lucas County has no countywide livestock ordinance. Inside cities like Toledo, keeping hogs, cattle, goats, or other livestock requires a Toledo-Lucas County Health Department permit. In unincorporated areas, townships regulate agricultural animals under ORC Chapter 519.
Because Ohio has no county-wide zoning, whether you can keep livestock depends on where you live. In Toledo, TMC 1705 allows up to six hens without a permit but bars other livestock (hogs, cows, goats, ducks, geese) unless the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department issues a permit. In unincorporated Lucas County the township zoning resolution controls, adopted under ORC Chapter 519; genuine agricultural use on larger parcels often enjoys the state agricultural-exemption protections. Check your specific city code or township zoning office before keeping livestock.
Keeping prohibited livestock without the required municipal or township approval is a zoning or health-code violation subject to abatement orders and fines set by the local jurisdiction.
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