Administrative
Citation

First, you need to make the necessary correction of the cause of violation that led to the issuance of the AC.

License Required – Visit your local Animal Care Center and obtain the required license registration for your pet. See license fee schedule for licensing fees. See animal care centers page for the list of animal care centers and locations.

Vaccination Requirements/Microchipping of dogs and cats – Visit your preferred veterinary clinic/hospital and make sure your animal is administered a microchip implant. The County of Los Angeles Animal Care Centers periodically hosts low-cost vaccination/microchip clinics. See vaccination clinic schedule for available times and dates for each care center.  Clinics are scheduled events, not an everyday service of our care centers and is limited to the availability of registered Veterinarian. Make sure to call ahead of visit.

Dogs at Large – Make sure your pet is confined and kept inside your premises at all times.

Excessive noise – Make sure the noise stops; see Suggestions on How to Reduce Animal Noise for suggestions on how to stop animal noise

Second, you need to submit the payment of the AC using the envelope you received along with citation.

Payments must be made with thirty (30) calendar days of service of the citation. Failure to submit your payment may result in collections action and an additional $50 penalty being imposed. Unpaid fines may be forwarded to collections and adversely impact your credit.

Send your check in the attached envelope, or if using a different envelope write the citation number on the envelope, and mail it to the following address:

Administrative Citation Program
Department of Animal Care and Control
5898 Cherry Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90805

You may visit the nearest Animal Care Center and submit your payment; follow this link   for list of animal care centers location and hours of operations.

If you choose to submit your payment via mail the payment must be made in the form of a cashier’s check, money order or personal check. DO NOT SEND CASH. Checks should be made payable to the COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. If you go to the Animal Care Center you may submit payment using your credit card or cash currency.

The Department does not have the capability to delay, defer or reduce fine amounts. Fine amounts listed on administrative citations must be paid within thirty (30) calendar days of when the citation was issued, regardless of your financial status. Failure to pay the fine within thirty (30) days of when the citation was issued can result in an additional $50 penalty being imposed. Unpaid fines may be forwarded to collections and adversely impact your credit. If you believe that the violation listed on the citation did not occur or you are not responsible for the violation, you may request a hearing to contest the violation. If you have a qualifying financial hardship, you may not have to deposit the fine amount prior to the hearing. Those forms can be found at the ‘I am not the responsible person for the violation and/or would like to contest this citation’ tab below.

You may submit a Request for Administrative Hearing; follow this link to complete the form and learn about the requirements.  Remember, you must submit this request within the same thirty (30) days you have to submit payment. You must submit payment with your hearing request. If you have a qualifying financial hardship and cannot afford to deposit the fine amount prior to the hearing you may submit a Request for Hardship Waiver which is available at this link. The hardship waiver request must be submitted with the hearing request.

Yes, follow this link to complete the form. Once the extension is granted a new hearing notification date will be mailed to you.

Yes, the number to call is 562-940-6898. Please note that the staff members that answer this telephone line have no authority to change, withdraw or otherwise dispose of the citation. They are not authorized to waive fines, fees, or give legal advice

The following four violations may be correctable at the discretion of the issuing officer: 10.20.030 – License required; 10.20.185 – Microchipped required; 10.20.220 – Vaccination Required; and in some areas 10.20.350 – Mandatory Spaying and Neutering.

If the officer cited you for one or more of these violations, the violation(s) can be dismissed if you provided proof to the Department with in thirty (30) days of the service of citation. No fine is due for any violation that is dismissed.