Yucaipa, CA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 6.20.010 of the Yucaipa Municipal Code, adopted in Ordinance 163 in 1997 by the Yucaipa City Council, bars anyone in the City of Yucaipa, San Bernardino County, California from feeding or in any manner providing food for one or more nondomesticated mammalian predators. The definition lists coyotes, raccoons, foxes, opossums, bears, mountain lions and bobcats. The section targets predators by name; deer and geese do not appear on that list, so this provision is a predator-feeding ban rather than a general wildlife-feeding ban.

There are two exceptions in § 6.20.010(B). The first covers a person who owns the predator and keeps it under a valid certificate or permit issued by the state of California Department of Fish and Game. The second covers a person who provides food for a trapped, injured or unweaned nondomesticated mammalian predator between the time the agency in charge of animal control is notified and the time the agency picks it up.

Two related rules sit beside it in Chapter 6.20. Section 6.20.020 bars leaving food out-of-doors for any animal between ten p.m. and six a.m. unless the area is not accessible to nondomesticated mammalian predators, and § 6.20.030 requires garbage containing food scraps to be secured in closed containers. Section 6.20.040 limits only those two sections to the mountainous and foothills areas of the city; it does not name § 6.20.010. Chapter 6.04 designates the County of San Bernardino as the enforcement agency for Title 6 and also lets any person authorized under Chapter 1.12 enforce it.