Colorado Springs, CO Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

A makes it a noncriminal civil infraction, not a criminal offense, to feed any wildlife within Colorado Springs without authorization. B requires that, within the six months before the alleged violation, the person already received either a written warning citing this section or a citation for violating it. Subsection D spells out how that warning works, it issues once an investigation establishes at least one witness (who may be the complaining witness) to the feeding, must identify the date, time, location and witness, and is valid once posted on the subject premises; after a warning is issued, the person has 24 hours to cure the violation before enforcement can follow.

The City keeps records of every warning as prima facie proof it was given. C exempts wildlife in the possession or control of an animal shelter, bird rescue, accredited zoo, education center, or any other facility licensed or administered by a state, federal or other governmental subdivision, so licensed rehabilitators and public agencies are not barred from feeding animals in their care. Because the offense sits outside the criminal code, a violation goes through a civil infraction process rather than Municipal Court's criminal docket, and the ordinance, adopted by Ordinance 18-114, was written to address the human feeding of deer, geese and similar wildlife that draws animals into residential neighborhoods and creates habituation or safety problems.