Daytona Beach, FL Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 14-21, adopted by Ordinance No. 2024-212 in June 2024, is narrowly written around pigeons and public nuisance, not a general wildlife-feeding ban. Subsection (a) prohibits any person from feeding or providing food for one or more pigeons in a manner that results in a public nuisance; feeding pigeons that does not create the defined nuisance conditions is not itself a violation. Subsection (b) defines what counts as a public nuisance for purposes of the section: an accumulation of droppings and/or feathers, attraction of vermin, blockage of streets or public rights-of-way, or damage caused to real property.

Because the ordinance is triggered by the nuisance effect rather than the act of feeding alone, code enforcement typically documents dropping accumulation, vermin sightings, or property damage tied to a specific feeding pattern before issuing a citation. Daytona Beach's general animal code (Chapter 14) contains no separate provision addressing feeding of deer, geese, ducks, or other wildlife; those species are not named in this section or elsewhere in the chapter, so this pigeon-specific nuisance rule is the only local wildlife-feeding restriction in the city code.