Animal Ordinances in Oregon (2026)

Oregon is an open-range state: under ORS 607.005 livestock may lawfully run at large unless voters form a livestock…

Beaverton allows up to four hens per property for personal use, bans roosters outright, and requires a…

In unincorporated Clackamas County, chickens and roosters are allowed in rural areas but restricted in urban and…

Eugene's EC 9.5250 Urban Animal Keeping Standards, current through Ordinance 20739, let residents on lots under 20,000…

Gresham allows up to three permitted hens on a single-detached-dwelling lot, bans roosters outright, and separately…

Hillsboro requires a City-approved livestock permit before keeping any livestock under HMC 6.20.070, bans standard…

Lane County's Animal Services Code does not set livestock-keeping limits; horses, cattle, sheep, and goats are a zoning…

In Marion County, animals raised for food, fur or monetary gain are livestock and a farm use. Farm use is allowed in…

Medford allows personal-use poultry, chickens, ducks, geese and swans, on residential property under Code Section…

Multnomah County requires anyone keeping livestock to post a county-issued numbered sign at the property entrance…

Portland lets residents keep up to four chickens, ducks, or pigeons per lot without a permit, six on lots 10,000 square…

Salem allows up to twelve poultry per residence, community garden, or school and religious-organization lot under SRC…

Hillsboro requires dogs to be leashed off the owner's property. Washington County Animal Services enforces leash laws.

Beaverton excludes dogs from its general animal-at-large rule and instead enforces Washington County's Dog Control…

In the City of Bend, dogs may not run at large: they must stay under complete, tethered control of the owner by…

In unincorporated Benton County, dog owners are prohibited from letting a dog be at large: off the owner's property and…

In unincorporated Clackamas County a dog off its owner's property must be under the immediate control of a person. A…

Eugene bans letting a dog run at large anywhere in the city under EC 4.425, and treats an owner as automatically…

In unincorporated Lane County, no owner may permit a dog to be at large. A "dog-at-large" is off the owner's premises…

Marion County prohibits dogs from running at large. A dog off the keeper's property and not under immediate control…

Medford bans letting a dog "run at large", off leash in a public place, under Code Section 5.602, except in areas the…

Off the owner's property, Multnomah County requires a dog be confined so it can't reach public areas, or restrained by…

Portland City Code requires any animal inside a city park to be leashed to no more than eight feet, with waste picked…

Salem does not have a citywide dog-at-large ordinance in its municipal code; animal control in Salem is handled by…

Washington County Code 6.04.230 makes it a Class C civil infraction for any dog owner or keeper to let a dog run at…

Clackamas County Code 5.01.050(C) lets a Hearings Officer classify any dog that has menaced, bitten, chased, injured or…

Eugene has no breed-based dog ban: EC 4.435 classifies a dog as 'potentially dangerous' purely on what it did, sorted…

Medford has no breed-specific dog ban. Instead, Code Section 5.601 defines a "dangerous dog" by its conduct, an…

Washington County Code does not ban dogs by breed. Instead, WCC 6.04.310 classifies 'dangerous behavior' by what a dog…

The City of Bend has no breed-specific ban: any dog can be declared a dangerous animal by the Bend Municipal Court…

Lane County does not ban any dog breed. Instead of breed labels, the Animal Services Code regulates individual dogs by…

Marion County does not ban any dog breed. Regulation is behavior-based: state law ORS 609.098 makes it a crime to…

Multnomah County classifies dogs as potentially dangerous or dangerous based on documented behavior, not breed. There…

Salem does not impose breed-specific legislation. Oregon's potentially dangerous dog statutes (ORS 609) address dogs…

Oregon Department of Agriculture requires all beekeepers with five or more hives to register annually under ORS…

Gresham allows honeybee hives on single-family lots under GRC Article 7.18, capping colonies at six with flyway-barrier…

Hillsboro homeowners may keep up to 3 hives, set back at least 10 feet from property lines, with mandatory notice to…

Marion County's Rural Zone Code prohibits beekeeping in the Single Family Residential (RS) zone. Keeping honeybees is…

Medford allows beekeeping in single-family residential, commercial, industrial, and public parks districts, but every…

Portland allows up to 4 beehives per lot (6 on lots 10,000+ sq ft), with mandatory setbacks, flyaway barriers, and a…

Salem caps residential beekeeping at five hives per property, temporarily seven from April through August for splits…

In unincorporated Multnomah County's Rural Residential (RR), MUA-20 and similar rural zones, raising honeybees is a…

Oregon ORS 609.305 to 609.335 prohibits keeping non-native cats, bears, primates, crocodilians, and venomous reptiles…

Beaverton prohibits keeping any wild, exotic, or dangerous animal within city limits, with narrow exceptions for…

Unincorporated Benton County bans using wild or exotic animals, listed exhaustively in County Code § 9.805(4) from…

Multnomah County makes it unlawful to harbor or own a dangerous or exotic animal, lions, primates, bears, venomous…

Washington County Code 6.08.030 bans keeping any exotic animal in the unincorporated county, big cats, non-human…

Hillsboro defers exotic-pet eligibility to state and federal wildlife agencies but bans breeding, slaughter, and sale…

Lane County's Animal Services Code treats "exotic or dangerous animal" as a regulated category of "animal" and covers…

Oregon bars new exotic-animal ownership. Under ORS 609.341 you may not keep an exotic animal without a valid State…

Oregon regulates exotic pet ownership through ORS 609.305-609.355 and ODFW rules. Exotic animals including primates…

Oregon has no blanket statewide ban on feeding deer or elk. Under ORS 496.731, ODFW may order removal of attractants…

EC 6.020 flatly bans feeding wildlife anywhere in Eugene: "No person shall feed wildlife within the city." The code's…

Medford bans feeding deer, raccoon, wild turkey, bear, cougar, coyote, and wolf anywhere in the city, with each day of…

Portland City Code bars anyone from feeding or offering food to wild animals or aquatic life inside a city park, a…

Beaverton bans feeding waterfowl or other wildlife on its parks, plazas and library grounds: a targeted park rule under…

Lane County's Animal Services Code has no blanket wildlife-feeding ban, but harboring an animal makes you its "owner"…

Oregon prosecutes animal hoarding under ORS 167.325 through 167.333, with felony charges available when 11 or more…

Animal Services can order an owner to abate a nuisance when animals exceed what they can reasonably care for, and…

Clackamas County sets no hard cap on dogs, but owning more than one dog requires a Multiple Dog License, granted only…

Eugene doesn't set a flat numeric pet cap; instead, keeping four or more dogs over six months old on one property makes…

Hillsboro caps household pets at 3 dogs, 3 cats, and 4 rabbits per property under HMC 6.20.030, exempting young…

Lane County does not set a hard household pet cap, but keeping three or more dogs over six months old on a premises is…

In Marion County's Rural Zone Code, a conditional use permit is required in the RS and AR zones if there are more than…

Clackamas County requires cats, like dogs, to stay on a leash no longer than six feet whenever they're in a county…

Lane County does not license or leash cats, but a cat is an "animal" under the code, so it is covered by the…

Marion County does not license cats or set an at-large rule for them the way it does for dogs. Cats fall under the…

Multnomah County requires owners to license dogs and cats by age six months under County Code § 13.101, but § 13.002…

In the City of Bend, domestic cats are exempt from the citywide at-large and animal-waste requirements that apply to…

Hillsboro exempts cats from its at-large prohibition, so they may roam freely, but caps ownership at 3 cats per…

Beaverton's animal-at-large ordinance names domestic cats as its sole exemption, so cats may roam free citywide and…

Salem has no general spay/neuter mandate for dogs or cats, but SRC 50.715 requires any miniature swine kept as a…

Multnomah County does not require every pet to be spayed or neutered, but Multnomah County Code § 13.999(D)(5) lets the…

Eugene requires anyone who adopts or buys an animal from the city's animal regulation authority, or from any other…

Anyone who adopts a dog or cat from Lane County Animal Services or another shelter must have it spayed or neutered…

Medford does not require every dog to be sterilized, but once a court convicts an owner of failing to control a…

A dog or cat adopted from Washington County Animal Services, or from a licensed animal rescue entity in the county…

Clackamas County doesn't microchip every dog, but Code 5.01.080(B)(1)(h) lets a Hearings Officer order microchip…

The City of Bend does not require microchipping for pets generally. It only applies once a dog has been formally…

Medford bans feeding coyotes citywide under Section 5.608, which the code folds into a broader wildlife-feeding…

Beaverton bans retail pet stores from selling dogs or cats; only shelters, rescues, and residential Beaverton breeders…

In the City of Bend, pet stores cannot sell dogs, cats or rabbits at all. Bend Code § 7.70.010 bans any pet store from…

Lane County does not ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats, but any 'pet dealer' selling live animals must keep…

Pet grooming businesses in Hillsboro fall under the Community Development Code's 'Animal Service Facility' use…

Lane County allows small-scale pet grooming as a home occupation in unincorporated zoning districts, but Lane Code…

Medford allows dog grooming businesses by right in every commercial zone, from neighborhood C-N to heavy commercial…

Salem's Unified Development Code treats pet grooming as an 'animal services' use, and in the General Commercial (CG)…

Portland classifies animal grooming as a Retail Sales and Service personal-service use under Title 33.920.250, letting…

Veterinary clinics aren't a listed permitted or conditional use in Lane County's Rural Residential (RR) zone under LC…

Unincorporated Benton County allows commercial kennels as an accessory use to a veterinary clinic or pet shop in any…

Veterinary clinics in Hillsboro are regulated as animal service facilities: indoor or supervised-yard operations need…

Medford Code Section 10.814 keeps veterinary clinics and animal hospitals at least 100 feet from residential lots…

Portland zones veterinary clinics and boarding-only kennels under the Retail Sales And Service use category, so each…

Salem requires small animal veterinary services to keep operations inside soundproof buildings and, if outdoor dog runs…

In unincorporated Washington County's Transit Oriented Districts, a veterinary office without outdoor kennels needs a…

Multnomah County's zoning code excludes veterinary clinics and animal hospitals from the dog-kennel conditional-use…

Clackamas County bans hunting, trapping, injuring or otherwise molesting any bird or animal inside county parks…

Salem makes it unlawful to disturb, injure, damage or kill any bird, bird nest or egg inside a city park under SRC…

In City of Bend parks, Bend Code § 5.55.005(A)(10) bars feeding, hunting, pursuing, trapping, killing, injuring or…

Benton County's Sensitive Fish and Wildlife Habitat Overlay Zone (/FW) protects Northern Bald Eagle, Osprey, and…

Eugene bans heavy machinery within 300 feet of identified bird nesting areas in the NR Natural Resource zone and /WB…

Portland requires bird-safe glass on new buildings and major remodels in the Central City and South Reach areas to cut…

Eugene's EC 9.5850 Wildlife Care Center Standards let a property take in injured or orphaned wildlife for…

Any rescue or sanctuary in unincorporated Multnomah County, wildlife rescues included, that keeps 10 or more animals…

Salem's UDC treats a wildlife rehabilitation facility as an 'animal services' land use rather than issuing a city…

Any animal rescue entity operating in unincorporated Washington County, including a sanctuary, shelter, humane society…

Benton County does not license wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facilities itself; instead, County Code § 9.810(2)(b)…