Folsom, CA Animal Ordinances: Microchipping (2026)
Key Facts
- Owner mandate
- None in city code
- Shelter duty
- Scan before adoption/euthanasia
- Governing section
- FMC § 7.10.040(D)
- Minimum hold (dogs/cats)
- 7 days
- Minimum hold (livestock)
- 14 days
Summary
Folsom does not require pet owners to microchip their animals; the only microchip rule in the municipal code is a shelter duty. Section 7.10.040(D) requires the animal shelter to scan every impounded animal for a microchip and make reasonably diligent efforts to contact the identified owner before the animal can be adopted out or euthanized.
D. During the holding period required by this section, and prior to the adoption or euthanasia of any impounded animal, the animal shelter shall scan the animal for a microchip which may identify the owner of that animal, and the animal shelter shall make reasonably diligent efforts to contact the owner and notify him or her that his or her animal is impounded.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 1369, passed April 28, 2026).
Full Breakdown
Folsom's animal code contains a single reference to microchips, and it is not an owner mandate. 040(D) requires that, during the mandatory holding period and before an impounded animal is placed for adoption or euthanized, the animal shelter must scan the animal for a microchip that could identify its owner and then make "reasonably diligent efforts" to contact that owner and notify them the animal is impounded. 040(A)-(C)). 06 but does not require an implanted chip as a backup. No other part of Title 7 imposes a microchipping requirement on residents, and there is no separate fee, deadline, or infraction tied to whether a privately owned pet carries a microchip.
060 still requires reasonably diligent efforts to reach that owner before the city can treat the animal as returnable to its known owner rather than abandoned.
Violations & Fines
There is no violation or fine tied to whether a resident's pet is microchipped, because the code does not require owners to chip their animals. The obligation in Section 7.10.040(D) runs the other way: it binds the animal shelter to scan and attempt contact, and a shelter's failure to do so is an internal compliance matter, not a citation against a pet owner.
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