Animal Ordinances in Sioux Falls, SD (2026)

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.008(f)

(f) It shall be unlawful for livestock to be kept within the city limits, except that such livestock may be kept on property that is classified as AG, Agricultural District under the zoning ordinance of the city of Sioux Falls. This section shall not apply to livestock kept as a part of any research, educational institution, stockyard, or temporarily exhibited.

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.002

Except on property designated by the city as an animal off-leash area, it shall be unlawful for any person to have any animal which is owned, kept, harbored, or allowed to be habitually in or upon the premises occupied by him or her or under his or her control to be at large and to go in or upon the private premises of others or upon any public property.    (b)   Any person convicted of subsect...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.003.1

(a) An animal may be declared vicious by the chief of police under the following minimum guidelines: (1) An animal that in a vicious or terrorizing manner...bites, inflicts injury to, assaults, or otherwise attacks a person or other animal...resulting in the death of the person or other animal... (c) It is unlawful for any person to own, harbor, or possess a vicious animal. (d) Any animal decla...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.100(a)

No person shall establish or maintain any hive or colony unless the city issues a permit allowing the applicant to establish and maintain a colony on the property he/she owns. Exception: If the principal use of the property is a college, university, post high school, middle school, high school, or zoo, the application shall require authorization from the property owner or authorized agent. The ...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.008(d)

It is considered a nuisance and shall be unlawful for any person to keep and maintain (other than the care and treatment of injured or abandoned birds and animals by people licensed for that purpose) or to sell native fur bearers, bears, mountain lions, bobcats, lynx, panthers, endangered species, exotic animals, or venomous snakes.    (e)   Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit t...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 95.014

No person shall: (1) Feed any waterfowl in or immediately adjacent to the city bike trails and any city park, excluding Arrowhead Park and the Great Plains Zoo; ... (3) Operate, install, or cause to be installed, any aerator in Covell Lake, or the lakes within Family Park for the purpose of keeping ice from forming...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.015

It is unlawful for any person to have or to keep more than four domestic pets over the age of six months, except birds and fish, on any lot or premises in the city, unless the person residing on or in the lot or premises has a valid kennel conditional use permit issued by the city. The animal shelters, veterinarian offices and retail pet stores are exempt from the provisions of this section.

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.075

(a) Each owner or keeper of a dog or cat of the age of six months or older shall, within 30 days of the acquisition of the animal or within 30 days of the time the animal becomes six months old, cause the animal to be licensed by the city. All applications for license certificates must be accompanied by a rabies immunization certificate and the appropriate fee.

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.003(c)(5)

The animal shall be permanently identified by injecting an identification microchip into the animal using standard veterinarian procedures and practices. The number and the veterinarian who injected the microchip are to be reported to animal control;       (6)    A sign provided by or approved by animal control denoting a restricted animal shall be displayed on the kennel or enclosure and on a ...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 90.016

No person being the owner or occupant of any parcel of real property within the corporate limits of the city shall place thereon, or allow to remain thereon, any unnatural food source, nor shall any person place such unnatural food source upon the real property of another or upon any public property. It shall be an affirmative defense to any prosecution hereunder that the unnatural food source ...

Sioux Falls Code of Ordinances § 158.157

A building or premises may be used for the following purposes in the C commercial district in conformance with the conditions prescribed herein or by obtaining a conditional use permit for those uses in conformance with the requirements of §§ 158.370 through 158.382: ... (b) Veterinarian clinic provided there is no outside kenneling of dogs;