How to research Urban Chicken ordinances online
From Urban Chickens Network
The quickest and easiest way to find urban chicken ordinances is to use Google.You can also consult the online municode directory itself and see if your town's included
- In the search field type: the name of your city and state and "municipal codes chickens" (e.g. Redwood City CA municipal codes chickens)
- Generally, the first couple of results will include a link to your city's online municipal code database, sometimes even including the actual code related to chickens. The titles that animals seem to fall under are title 6 or title 10, so look there if you can.
- If you can search, try the term "chicken" but if that doesn't bring up any results, try "fowl" or "poultry" instead.
- If those fail to work, you can search on "rooster" to see if there's a specific law on the books prohibiting roosters (and the chicken-related laws will be close to it in the code).
If you're looking to write your own code, you can follow the guidelines in this post from the blog: urban chicken laws: how to write your own.
