Fremont, CA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

060(u) folds the feeding ban into a broader wildlife-protection subsection covering all of Fremont's parks and recreation areas. It bars anyone from hunting, frightening, chasing, setting a snare for, catching, injuring or destroying any animal or bird, from disturbing their young or eggs, from injuring or maltreating any domestic or other animal, and separately from feeding or causing to be fed, or providing food for, any domestic, resident or migratory waterfowl or other park resident animal. The only carve-out is for authorized city wildlife management programs, meaning a resident who tosses bread to ducks at a city lake or leaves food out for a park's resident squirrels or geese falls squarely within the prohibition, alongside anyone who would trap or harm the same animals.

The rule sits among the park's other wildlife-adjacent provisions: subsection (g) separately bars swimming or polluting park ponds and lakes except at designated spots, and subsection (v) restricts fishing to designated locations, so the feeding ban is one piece of a set of rules meant to keep Fremont's lake and pond wildlife undisturbed and unhabituated to people. 010(a), and any peace officer or public employee conducting official business is exempted under subsection (b) of that same section.