“This measure was taken to reduce illegal cockfighting and associated criminal activity, outbreaks of avian diseases such as Virulent Newcastle Disease, complaints of noise and odor, and to improve neighboring residents’ quality of life,” DACC officials said in a news release.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the ordinance in Sept. 2018 and it went into effect Jan. 1, 2019.
It states that residents living in unincorporated Los Angeles County can have a maximum of:
- Two roosters if they own half an acre or less;
- Four roosters if they own a half to one acre;
- Six roosters if they own one to five acres; and
- 10 roosters if they own five or more acres.
An animal facility license is required to keep more roosters than the maximum allowed. The license fee is $25 and requires an annual property inspection. No more than 25 roosters will be allowed under any circumstance, authorities warn.
Violators could be fined up to $100 for the first violation, $250 for the second violation, and $500 for the third violation and each additional violation.
View the new ordinance here.
[Information via news release from the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control.]
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thedude says
cock fighting is a way of life for the rooster my boy!!
Ron says
Send in ICE.
Alexis says
Roosters don’t like ice.
Ana says
Not necessarily everyone who has roosters fights them !!! Some love and care for them .
Tim Scott says
Those people generally don’t keep them in large numbers.
ANA says
very true i had like 20 but mix roosters hens , laying hens baby chickens everything different
Rooster says
Rooster Lives Matter!
Miguel Vicktinez says
Well if you deport all the illegal’s you wouldn’t have to worry about enforcing ordinances to prevent cockfighting.
Evelyn says
WOW! SMH! you had to bring racism into play… Im sorry you have so much hate that you feel the need to say something so ignorant…
Luis says
Deport yourself than a hole
Ron says
BUILD THE WALL ENFORCE OUR LAWS.
Jose says
For your information white people are the ones who brought cock fighting to the America’s president Abraham Lincoln use to fight chickens in the white household and not just him Andrew Jackson did too and a few other presidents learn your history I don’t agree with cock fighting but I think it is our constitutional right to own raise and harvest our livestock plus who in they’re right mind will spend 1000 2000 dollars on a rooster just to go kill it because just in case you didn’t know that’s how much show roosters cost