[Adopted 5-8-1975 by Ord. No. 1176, approved 5-8-1975]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Includes any natural person, partnership, association, firm or corporation.
B. 
Word usage. In this article, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular, and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
C. 
Words used in § 80-9C below shall have those meanings as defined in § 255-12 of Chapter 255.
[Added 3-8-2018 by Ord. No. 2298, approved 3-8-2018]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any pig or hog or to maintain any pigpen or hogpen at any place in the Borough of Carlisle.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any chickens or other fowl at any place within the Borough of Carlisle except as permitted in accordance with the requirements of Subsection C, below.
[Added 3-10-2005 by Ord. No. 2032, approved 3-10-2005; amended 3-8-2018 by Ord. No. 2298, approved 3-8-2018]
C. 
The keeping of chickens is permitted in the Borough of Carlisle subject to compliance with the following requirements and conditions:
[Added 3-8-2018 by Ord. No. 2298, approved 3-8-2018]
(1) 
The keeping of chickens shall be permitted in the following locations:
(a) 
On any residential lot in the R-1 Low Density Residential Zoning District as a use accessory to the residential use of the lot;
(b) 
On any residential lot in the Borough as an accessory use to the residential use of the lot; and
[Amended 4-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2417, approved 4-5-2023]
(c) 
On any lot in the INS Institutional Zoning District as an accessory use of the lot.
[Amended 4-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2417, approved 4-5-2023]
(2) 
No chicken coop or shelter shall be permitted in the front yard of any lot. The chicken coop and shelter shall be considered an accessory structure.
[Amended 4-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2417]
(3) 
Chickens must be kept within a coop or shelter which is fully enclosed (top or roof) with wire mesh fencing of a size that will not allow escape from the pen enclosure.
(4) 
The coop or shelter must be fully screened and buffered by fencing and/or vegetation so as not to be visible from any public right-of-way or street.
(5) 
The coop or shelter must be designed in compliance with any state standards or regulations pertaining to livestock or animal protection and/or health standards.
(6) 
There must be a thirty-foot minimum separation maintained between the coop or shelter and any adjacent residential building containing a dwelling located outside the lot where the coop or shelter is located.
[Amended 4-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2417, approved 4-5-2023]
(7) 
The maximum number of chickens shall be limited to four, none of which may be roosters.
(8) 
Bedding in the coop or shelter must be changed on a daily basis, not openly stored and used bedding properly disposed of on a weekly basis.
(9) 
Eggs or chickens from the use on the lot may not be sold commercially or as a home occupation.
(10) 
Any slaughtering of chickens or related fowl must be done within the residence or other principal structure on the lot.
(11) 
No chickens may be placed or maintained on a lot until a zoning permit is issued for the coop or shelter by the Borough of Carlisle.
[Amended 4-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2417, approved 4-5-2023]
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any horse, cattle, goat or sheep at any place in the Borough of Carlisle except with special permission from the Borough Council.
A. 
Such permission shall be granted only under the following conditions:
(1) 
A stable or other building shall be provided as a shelter for such animal.
(2) 
The place where such animal is to be kept and the stable or other shelter shall be such that no nuisance shall result therefrom.
(3) 
No stable or other shelter shall be located within 30 feet of any street or within 50 feet of any dwelling.
(4) 
Every stable or other shelter shall be kept in a sanitary condition and free from unpleasant odors and from conditions contributing to the breeding of flies.
(5) 
Manure and filth shall not be permitted to accumulate to the annoyance of any person residing in the vicinity or traveling in the area.
(6) 
No law, ordinance, rule or regulation precludes the conduct of the activity in question.
[Added 3-10-1988 by Ord. No. 1576, approved 3-10-1988]
(7) 
At least one week prior to the meeting at which Borough Council will consider the granting of permission to keep horses, cattle, goats or sheep, the applicant shall give notice by personal delivery or by first-class mail to the Borough Zoning Officer, Borough Council and all owners of record, as verified by the applicant by review of the tax assessment records of Cumberland County, of property within a two-hundred-foot radius of the lot lines of the subject property. In addition, at least one week prior to the meeting, notice shall be conspicuously posted by the applicant on the subject property at points sufficient to notify potentially interested citizens. At said meeting, the applicant shall confirm and present proof of the provision of notice as required herein.
[Added 8-9-2012 by Ord. No. 2169, approved 8-9-2012]
B. 
Any permission granted by the Council under this section may be revoked by the Council at any time when any of the conditions in this section are not complied with.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 80-11, Chickens and other fowl, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted 3-10-2005 by Ord. No. 2032, approved 3-10-2005.
No person shall bury any horse, cattle, sheep or swine at any place within the limits of the Borough of Carlisle. Any person burying any other dead animal within the limits of the Borough shall be required to bury the same not less than three feet below the surface of the ground.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 80-13, Exceptions, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted 3-10-2005 by Ord. No. 2032, approved 3-10-2005.
[Amended 3-10-1988 by Ord. No. 1576, approved 3-10-1988]
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall, for each and every such violation, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 30 days. Each day's continuance of a violation of any provision of this article shall constitute a separate violation.