Lee's Summit, MO Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 5-11 makes it unlawful for anyone to feed or in any manner provide any attractant to any wild animal within the corporate limits of the City, and separately bans leaving, storing or maintaining any attractant in a manner, area or location accessible to any wild animals. The ordinance defines wild animal broadly in Section 5-2 to include bats, beavers, raptors and game birds, black bears, bobcats, coyotes, deer, foxes, minks, mountain lions, moles, muskrats, opossum, otter, raccoons, rodents, skunks, snakes and squirrels, among others.

Six exceptions keep the ban from reaching ordinary yard use: a legal owner of a wild animal kept under state and local law; anyone feeding a trapped, injured or unweaned animal while waiting for Animal Control to arrive; a suspended bird feeder for songbirds kept free of seed debris on the ground below it; normal livestock or farm-animal feeding where reasonable steps reduce wildlife access; ornamental plants and vegetable gardens, so long as reasonable efforts discourage wildlife from feeding on them; and lawful wildlife or waterfowl management work by City, State or federal agents.