La Habra, CA Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

Chapter 6.40 regulates pet shops, boarding kennels and grooming parlors as a single category of business. Section 6.40.010 requires the operation to sit in a facility that complies with the zoning regulations of Title 18 before the business can open at all. Section 6.40.020 then layers on a permit requirement: every owner or operator must secure a permit from the animal control officer under the general permit chapter, Chapter 6.30, and pay a fee the city council sets by resolution. The animal control officer may attach conditions to the permit at issuance or later, and the chapter makes announced or unannounced routine inspections an automatic condition of every permit, so a groomer cannot decline an inspection without risking the permit itself.

Chapter 6.30's general permit provisions apply on top of this: permits run for one year, § 6.30.080 lets the animal control officer deny a permit with written reasons, and a denied applicant can request a hearing before the chief of police within ten calendar days. The same chapter imposes sanitation, housing, food and record-keeping duties on pet shops and grooming parlors, including daily removal of waste before the business opens (§ 6.40.040) and a requirement to give the police department after-hours contact names and numbers for emergencies (§ 6.40.060).