It is not illegal to feed seagulls. However, one might argue, if vast flocks of seagulls are being attracted to your lawn because you neighbor is feeding them, that your neighbor is causing a nuisance. I think the first thing to try is to ask your neighbor to go down to the beach and feed the seagulls there, where it will not be a nuisance. Other than that, see if there is anything applicable in your municipal by-laws.
A federal law.
The Animal Welfare Act
A federal law wins.
Federal supremacy establishes that federal law supercedes all state and local law. Federal supremacy establishes that federal law supercedes all state and local law.
Copyright law is a federal law, granted in the Constitution.
State law can be more detailed than federal law, but cannot conflict with federal law. Therefore, a state law cannot determine that a federal law is invalid. The state would have to, instead challenge the federal law as an unconstitutional intrusion on state rights.
federal law preempts state regulations when a federal law regulates that particular subject.
Any law passed by the federal government, as opposed to the states, would be considered a federal law.
Federal law prevails.
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Federal law takes precedence over state law.