Fayetteville, NC Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

County Code § 3-10 states that harboring means regularly feeding, sheltering, or caring for an animal. Once you harbor an animal, § 3-15 applies: keeping any animal that molests passersby, damages property, defecates on someone else's land, or makes habitual noise is a prohibited nuisance. Section 3-17 separately bans keeping, harboring, breeding, selling, or trading wild or exotic animals, naming bears, deer, foxes, raccoons, skunks, and bats, with an exception only for wildlife rehabilitators licensed by the state Wildlife Resources Commission. On the city side, minimum housing standard § 14-35 requires grounds and structures be maintained free of insect vermin and rodent harborage and infestation.