6 rules for unincorporated Sarpy County, Nebraska.
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Backyard hens are a city-by-city question in Sarpy County. Bellevue permits up to seven hens with a permit; Papillion and La Vista prohibit them. Roosters are banned everywhere urban, and livestock belongs on agricultural-zoned land.
Nebraska has no statewide leash law, so Sarpy County's cities carry it. Bellevue, Papillion, and La Vista all require dogs leashed or confined and off other people's property. The Nebraska Humane Society handles animal control across the metro.
No Sarpy County city bans a dog breed. Bellevue considered an Omaha-style pit-bull muzzle law in 2021 and voted it down. Dogs are judged by behavior under Nebraska's dangerous-dog statute, which requires a declared dangerous dog spayed and microchipped.
Neb. Rev. Stat. §54-618
A dangerous dog that has been declared as such shall be spayed or neutered and implanted with a microchip identification number by a licensed veterinarian within thirty days after such declaration.
Keeping honey bees is legal across Sarpy County, but Nebraska's Apiary Act requires every beekeeper to register hives with the state Department of Agriculture. Cities like Bellevue add their own placement and hive rules on residential lots.
Sarpy County and its cities prohibit keeping dangerous wild animals, big cats, primates, wolves, bears, and venomous reptiles, as pets. Nebraska also bars private ownership of many native wildlife species without a state permit.
Sarpy County discourages feeding wild animals like deer, coyotes, and geese, which lose their fear of people and become a nuisance. Bird feeders are fine, but pet food and open trash left out count as unintentional feeding.
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