10 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Lane County, Oregon.
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Lane County's Animal Services Code (Chapter 7) does not cap chickens or farm animals. Whether you can keep hens, roosters, goats, or cattle is a land-use question under the Lane Code zoning chapters (LC Ch. 16), which are permissive on rural, farm (EFU), and forest-zoned land.
In unincorporated Lane County, no owner may permit a dog to be at large. A "dog-at-large" is off the owner's premises and not under the owner's immediate control. Letting a dog run loose is a Class C or Class B violation.
Lane Code 7.005.110
A. No dog owner shall permit a dog to be at large. B. A dog owner, whose dog runs at large, commits a Class C violation if the dog has been spayed/neutered or a Class B violation if the dog is fertile. C. A dog owner is deemed to be negligent per se for the actions of a dog at large when the dog causes injury to a person or property.
Lane County does not ban any dog breed. Instead of breed labels, the Animal Services Code regulates individual dogs by behavior, classifying "dangerous behavior" by class after a dog menaces, chases, bites, or injures, and imposing leash, enclosure, muzzle, and signage rules.
Lane Code 7.005.130A-B
A. Class C violation dangerous behavior is established if a dog at large is found to menace, chase, display threatening or aggressive behavior or otherwise threaten or endanger the safety of any domestic animal or livestock. B. Class B violation dangerous behavior is established if a dog at large is found to menace, chase, display threatening or aggressive behavior or otherwise threaten or enda...
Lane County's Animal Services Code does not regulate honeybees; hive placement is a zoning matter under Lane Code Chapter 16. Beekeeping is a protected farm practice under Oregon's right-to-farm law, and the Oregon Department of Agriculture runs a voluntary statewide apiary registry.
Lane County's Animal Services Code treats "exotic or dangerous animal" as a regulated category of "animal" and covers it under the same impound, licensing, and dangerous-animal framework as dogs. Oregon state law (ORS 609.305-609.335) bans most exotic pets outright.
Lane Code 7.005.005 (Definitions)
"Animal" means any dog, cat, exotic or dangerous animal, or livestock.
Lane County's Animal Services Code has no blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but harboring an animal makes you its "owner" and responsible for it, and abandoning a domesticated animal is a Class A violation. Feeding big-game wildlife is regulated by Oregon Fish and Wildlife.
Lane Code 7.005.105
A. A person commits the offense of animal abandonment if the person leaves a domesticated animal at a location without providing for the animal's continued care. It is no defense to the offense in LC 7.005.105A that the defendant abandoned the animal at or near an animal shelter, veterinary clinic or other place of shelter if the defendant did not make reasonable arrangements for the care of th...
Lane County's Animal Services Code does not set livestock-keeping limits; horses, cattle, sheep, and goats are a zoning question under Lane Code Chapter 16. Loose livestock is governed by Oregon's livestock-district law (ORS Ch. 607), and farm practices are protected by right-to-farm ORS 30.935.
Lane Code 7.005.005 (Definitions)
"Livestock" means including but not limited to cattle, sheep, horses, goats, swine, fowl, poultry or any furbearing animal bred and maintained commercially or otherwise within pens, cages and hutches, or domesticated wild animals.
Lane County treats animal neglect as a violation and lets Animal Services impound neglected animals. Failing to provide minimum care is a Class B violation, and neglect causing serious injury or death is a Class A violation; the kennel rules also cap how many dogs one premises can keep.
Lane Code 7.005.125B-C
B. Animal Neglect (Class B violation). A person who fails to provide minimum care for an animal in such person's custody or control commits a Class B violation. C. Animal Neglect (Class A violation). A person who fails to provide minimum care for an animal in such person's custody or control and such failure results in serious physical injury or death to the animal, commits a Class A violation.
Lane County does not set a hard household pet cap, but keeping three or more dogs over six months old on a premises is a "noncommercial dog kennel" and requires the appropriate kennel license. Every dog over six months (or with permanent canine teeth) must be individually licensed.
Lane Code 7.005.005 (Definitions)
"Noncommercial Dog Kennel" means an establishment or premises where three or more dogs, over six months of age, are kept or maintained. No more than one breeding pair shall be used for breeding. The term does not include an animal hospital.
Lane County does not license or leash cats, but a cat is an "animal" under the code, so it is covered by the continuous-annoyance noise rule and the same impound and care provisions. Cats causing 15-plus minutes of noise disturbance are a Class C violation.
Lane Code 7.005.115
An animal owner who fails to control any animal that causes annoyance, alarm, or noise disturbance for more than 15 minutes at any time of the day or night, be it repeated barking, whining, screeching, howling, braying or other like sounds which can be heard beyond the boundary of the owner's property commits a Class C violation.
1 cities in Lane County have their own animal ordinances rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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