Yonkers, NY Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 58-20 sits in Chapter 58's insect-and-rodent-control article, and Subsection D targets the feeding practice that draws rodents to apartment buildings. It bars placing food for birds, fowl, dogs, cats or other animals "in the open or in such a manner that such food is accessible to rodents," unless the food sits in a container that keeps it from scattering on the ground. Even contained feeding is capped: no food may be left overnight in any hallway or public area, indoor or outdoor, of a residential building.

L. No. " A parallel, citywide version without the multiunit qualifier sits in the separate Insects and Rodents chapter at § 76-6, which the Director of the Bureau of Housing and Buildings also enforces; that section forbids feeding birds, fowl or other animals wherever the food stays accessible to rodents, on any property in the city, not just apartment buildings. Both sections tie back to § 58-20B and § 76-3, which direct the Commissioner or Director to inspect a building on a reasonable belief of infestation and to order the owner to correct it once found.