Simi Valley, CA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

1201, adopted as Ordinance No. 1136 and 1137 in 2008 and carried forward by the 2022 animal-code reenactment, makes it unlawful for any person to intentionally feed crows or ravens anywhere within City limits. The prohibition reaches beyond the person doing the feeding: an owner or person in control of property cannot cause or allow feeding of crows or ravens to happen on that property or on the right-of-way abutting it, closing off the obvious workaround of feeding from one's own yard. The section defines its scope broadly, applying to all birds in the genus Corvus, not just the two named species, and defines feed to mean providing, placing, exposing, depositing, distributing or scattering any edible material with the intent to feed, attract or entice crows or ravens.

That intent element matters: incidental bird activity around unsecured trash or pet food left outside is not itself a violation of this section, though it may trigger separate accumulation or nuisance provisions elsewhere in the Municipal Code. The section sits in Article 12 of Chapter 1 (Animals), which the City carved out from the Ventura County animal code it otherwise adopts by reference, meaning this is a Simi Valley-specific rule rather than an inherited county standard. The ordinance's purpose responds to nuisance and property-damage complaints associated with large corvid populations congregating around a reliable food source.