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Pets, chickens and bees in Hawthorne

Hawthorne's own rules on pets, chickens and bees, with the code text for every value.

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Each rule below links to the section of the Hawthorne Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Hawthorne's code says

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Bees
  • No hive or swarm within 200 feet of any home, hospital, school, church, office, store, restaurant or other dwelling.
    § 6.24.060 · code text
    No person shall keep any hive or swarm of bees within two hundred feet of any residence, hospital, sanitarium, public eating place, school, church, office building, store, home, apartment house, rooming house, or any other place of habitation.
Permit
  • A special permit from the director of animal services or of licensing and code enforcement is required.
    Applies: Keeping any animal other than a household pet.
    § 6.24.020 · code text
    No person shall keep any animal other than a household pet (dog, cat, canary, parrot, or similar animal or bird) on any real property except by special permit issued by the director of animal services or the director of licensing and code enforcement
  • A special permit from the director of animal services or of licensing and code enforcement is required.
    Applies: Animals, fowl or birds within 35 feet of a habitable dwelling, except dogs, cats, canaries or up to 4 parrot-family birds.
    § 6.24.030 · code text
    No person shall keep any animal, fowl or bird, wild or domestic, other than dogs, cats, canaries or not more than four birds of the Psittacinac family, within thirty-five feet of any habitable dwelling, except by special permit issued by the director of animal services or the director of licensing and code enforcement

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Can I keep chickens or bees at my home in Hawthorne?

Hawthorne's code: No hive or swarm within 200 feet of any home, hospital, school, church, office, store, restaurant or other dwelling. (§ 6.24.060).

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