A. The City of Fullerton finds and declares that:
1. The lakes on City property contain important habitat for migratory waterfowl and other birds such as ducks.
2. The value of this habitat is maximized when City lakes and their environs are, to the maximum extent practicable, maintained in a manner that replicates the natural environment.
3. Replicating the natural environment means improving water quality, maintaining native grasses and plants, and not supplementing or removing food to the environment.
4. Supplementing certain foods outside of the natural habitat can result in direct harm to waterfowl, including discouraging natural migration, causing avian diseases, and limiting the birds' intake of more nutritional natural foods.
B. Definitions.
1. “Waterfowl” means and refers to any ducks, geese, or other birds which can be found in a restricted area, which have used a restricted area as a habitat, or are reasonably capable of using a restricted area as a habitat.
2. “Restricted area” means and refers to any publicly owned lake, pond, stream, creek, fountain, or body of water in the City of Fullerton, including, but not limited to, Laguna Lake.
C. Prohibition on feeding of waterfowl. No person shall establish or provide food to waterfowl on, or adjacent to, any restricted area. No person shall allow any minor in his/her care or custody to allow such feeding by the minor. For the purposes of this section, “adjacent” means within 100 yards of any restricted area.
D. Prohibition on release of waterfowl. No person shall abandon or release any waterfowl in any restricted area.
E. City Manager permission. The City Manager may grant permission to feed or release waterfowl in a restricted area upon a reasonable showing of some health, wildlife management or stream management reason to justify such activity.
F. Violation. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any of provision of this section. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be subject to criminal penalties according to Chapter 1.08, or subject to civil penalties as set forth in Chapter 1.10.
(Ord. 2994, 2002)