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My neighbors and I which are mainly apt buildings have a HUGE problem with people's dogs pooping all over and no one picks up, completely oblivious to how it kills our efforts at a nice lawn in a neighborhood that needs a make-over. I have offered different signs which need the code or law that applies to Los Angeles County at the bottom and can't find it. All I can find is:

Los Angeles

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Environmental Programs Division developed a program to control pet waste. Los Angeles Municipal Code requires dog defecation to be immediately removed by the owner of the animal. Los Angeles County's pooper scooper law is listed under the county's nuisance ordinance and says, "Animal defecation on public property or upon private property other than the owner's property is prohibited

California Pooper Scooper Laws | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6630110_california-pooper-scooper-laws.html#ixzz1zcVD47JF

Anybody have the section/code, ordinance or whatever it's called? Thanks much!
Happy 4th of July!

[bercnan72]

This is what I found for ya:

Ordinance number 177090, (Q) Conditions of Approval, section 17, letter b. (Page 29 of entire PDF, or look for the Q-8 in upper right corner if you just want to scroll through it).

"'Pooper-scooper' regulations shall be included in CC&Rs to require proper
disposal of animal waste and to prevent additional nutrient loading of storm
drains."