Animal Ordinances in Phoenix, AZ (2026)

Phoenix City Code, Ch. 8, Sec. 8-7(a)-(c) (Poultry and rodents)

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, it is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall be unlawful for any person to keep rodents or poultry within the City. No poultry or rodents shall be kept in an enclosure within eighty feet of any residence within the City. Poultry may be kept within eighty feet of a residence if written permission consenting to the keeping of poultry less t...

Phoenix City Code § 8-14(A)

No dog shall be permitted at large. Each dog shall be confined within an enclosure on the owner's or custodian's property, secured so that the dog is confined entirely to the owner's or custodian's property, or on a leash not to exceed six feet in length and directly under the owner's or custodian's control when not on the owner's or custodian's property.

A.R.S. Sec. 9-499.04(C) (Animal control officers; appointment; authority; regulation of dogs; powers and duties)

C. A city or town may regulate the control of dogs if the regulation is not specific to any breed.

Phoenix City Code § 8-6

No person shall keep or maintain any poisonous reptiles or dangerous carnivorous wild animals without first having registered such animals or reptiles with the Director of the Police Department, who may prescribe regulations to insure the safe penning or caging of such animals or reptiles.

Phoenix City Code, Ch. 8, Sec. 8-1 (Kennel) and Sec. 8-8(b)

Kennel means an enclosed, controlled area, inaccessible to other animals, in which a person keeps, harbors or maintains five or more dogs under controlled conditions. ... (b) No swine shall be kept within the City limits, except purebred miniature Vietnamese potbelly pigs and other similar purebred miniature pigs. Miniature pigs shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five pounds. No more than thre...

Phoenix City Code § 8-3.09

A. A person commits animal hoarding if a person owns, possesses, keeps, harbors, or maintains ten or more animals under circumstances injurious to the health or welfare of any animal or person... B. Subsection A of this section excludes feral cats. A feral cat is a cat that is not domesticated or has become wild or is a free-roaming cat.

Phoenix City Code § 8-16.02(A)(5)

A. Upon determining an animal to be vicious, the court shall enter such orders as it deems necessary to protect the public. The court may order, but is not limited to the following: ... 5. That the animal be spayed or neutered. 6. That the animal be defanged or declawed.

Phoenix City Code § 8-3.06

A. No pet shop or pet dealer shall display, sell, deliver, offer for sale, barter, auction, give away, broker or otherwise transfer or dispose of a dog or cat except for a dog or cat obtained from: 1. An animal shelter; 2. A private, nonprofit humane society or nonprofit animal rescue organization; or 3. An animal shelter, nonprofit humane society or nonprofit animal rescue organization that op...

Phoenix Zoning Ordinance § 603(A)(4)

Veterinary offices and hospitals, kennels and animal training centers. Veterinary offices shall be so constructed and operated as to prevent objectionable noise and odor outside the walls of the office. There shall be no boarding or keeping of animals except for short periods of observation incidental to care. Veterinary hospitals shall be no closer than one hundred feet to any residential dist...

Phoenix City Code § 24-37(A)(5)

Killing, harming, taking, molesting or disturbing any animal, reptile, amphibian or bird within a park, except that fishing in a manner authorized by applicable State law is allowed. B. A person who is convicted of a violation of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and to perform not less than eight hours of ...