Buckeye, AZ Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

City of Buckeye Code § 11-1-9(F) makes it unlawful to feed, threaten, harass, disturb, or collect and/or remove wildlife anywhere in a community services facility or city park. A companion provision, § 11-1-10(F), separately bars using natural or prepared food to feed or attract birds or waterfowl in park lakes and water features. Both rules are confined to city parks and community services facilities in Buckeye, Maricopa County: they do not reach feeding wildlife on private property outside park boundaries. The parks department enforces the ban to keep wildlife wild and prevent nuisance concentrations of geese, ducks, and other animals near lakes and picnic areas.