Noblesville, IN Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 90.32 of the Noblesville Code of Ordinances, adopted by Ord. 09-02-21 on February 23, 2021, bars feeding wildlife in the city's public spaces. It is unlawful for any person, other than a park employee or someone acting with a park employee's permission, to feed, scatter food, or leave food of any type or kind in the parks, playgrounds, playfields, parkways, boulevards and streets of the City of Noblesville for birds, pigeons or other fowl. The ban is citywide and reaches ordinary streets and boulevards, not just designated park property, so scattering bread or seed for geese along a parkway or leaving pet food out for pigeons downtown both fall within the prohibition.

The section works alongside § 90.29(B), which lets the Noblesville Police Department issue $50 permits for the humane killing or trapping of non-migratory pigeons, starlings and other birds the city has declared pests, showing the ordinance is aimed at controlling nuisance bird populations rather than protecting wildlife generally. Enforcement runs through the Noblesville Police Department, which under § 90.33 may act against anyone who interferes with an animal control or police officer carrying out these duties. Because § 90.32 sits among the sections Chapter 90 classifies together for penalty purposes, a feeding-ban citation carries the same fine tier as the city's noisy-dog and interfering-with-enforcement offenses.