Puyallup, WA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- PMC § 9.20.060, Interference with wildlife
- Rule
- Feeding fowl banned except at designated park areas
- Who designates areas
- Puyallup parks director
- Scope
- Applies inside city parks only
Summary
Puyallup bans feeding fowl in city parks except at spots the parks director has designated for it. The rule sits inside the same section that bars molesting or injuring park wildlife, and is enforced as a Chapter 9.20 park-code violation.
It is unlawful in any manner to tease, annoy, disturb, molest, catch, injure or kill or to throw any stone or missile of any kind at or strike with any stick or weapon any animal, bird, fowl or fish in any park, or to feed any fowl in the park except at areas designated by the parks director.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4985225; v6 updated 2026-07-21; through 07-21-2026).
Full Breakdown
060, titled "Interference with wildlife," makes it unlawful in any manner to feed any fowl in a city park except at areas designated by the parks director. The provision is part of the same sentence that separately bars teasing, molesting, catching, injuring or killing any animal, bird, fowl or fish in a park, so the feeding restriction and the anti-molestation rule share one code section but are two distinct prohibitions: a person can be cited for feeding ducks or geese outside a designated area even without harming any animal.
20's park regulations. Because the parks director controls where feeding is allowed, permitted feeding areas can change; the ordinance does not set a citywide default of "feeding allowed" but instead makes feeding unlawful everywhere in a park unless a spot has affirmatively been designated for it.
Violations & Fines
A violation of PMC § 9.20.060, including feeding fowl outside a designated park area, is enforced under the general park-code violation provisions of Chapter 9.20 PMC; noncompliance with any park rule or regulation duly promulgated by the parks director or set out in this chapter is separately declared unlawful by PMC § 9.20.015(9).
Frequently Asked Questions
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