Village of Granville, IL Livestock and Domestic Chicken Hens

Prospectively, it is hereby declared a nuisance for any person and/or entity to keep within the Village of Granville any cattle, cows, horses, sheep, swine, goats, roosters, guinea hens, poultry (with the exception of chicken hens, which will be regulated as provided below herein), ducks, geese or other livestock except as provided as follows:

Within any portion of the Village zoned Ag-1 Agricultural.

This article and the interpretation thereof shall not apply to livestock brought into the Village temporarily for the purpose of being immediately shipped out of the Village of Granville.

The keeping of any such animals otherwise prohibited by this article may be permitted by applying for a special permit from the Village Board. Such permits may be issued for temporary purposes to permit circus performances, or other public exhibition or entertainment events or such other matters as the Village Board shall deem appropriate within the reasonable, rational discretion of the Village Board of the Village of Granville.

This article shall not apply to any of the above species that have been declared to be a nuisance herein, to the extent that the same presently exists in the Village of Granville for a period of six months from the date of passage of this article.

In reference to chicken hens, the same will be allowable and excepted from being declared a nuisance only if in compliance with the following provisions and regulations of this article solely for children who are members of 4-H and Future Farmers of America (FFA):

(1)

"Chicken Hens" (hereinafter "hens") shall mean the female of the species gallus gallus domesticas. Guinea hens are not chicken hens for purposes of this article, and guinea hens are prohibited.

(2)

It is again specifically declared that it shall be unlawful and is declared a nuisance to keep roosters within the Village limits except in Ag-1 zoning.

(3)

The combined number of hens allowed shall be no more than six per premises.

(4)

Hens shall at all times be confined within an appropriate enclosure which shall be kept and maintained in accordance with provisions of the Village of Granville Zoning Ordinance[1] in reference to buildings and accessory structures, and/or the same shall be otherwise appropriately restrained.

[1]

Editor's Note: See Ch. 285, Zoning and Land Development.

(5)

No such enclosure or restraint shall be located closer than 10 feet to any residential structure on any adjacent premises.

(6)

The owner and occupier and each of them of any area where a hen and/or hens are kept shall keep and maintain the same in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.

(7)

Additionally, the keeping and maintaining of said area in a clean and sanitary condition shall include, but not be limited to, prohibiting the accumulation of any waste material from the keeping of hens in such a manner as to create and/or allow either any offensive odor and/or any violation of any other nuisance ordinance of the Village of Granville.

(8)

Any person keeping hens shall be required to apply for and obtain a permit regarding the keeping of hens from the Village of Granville, which permit shall be applied for through the office of the Village Clerk of the Village of Granville, and the approval of any such permit shall be authorized by the Building Inspector or such other appropriate agent of the Village as the Village President and/or Village Board may from time to time designate. The initial permit must be applied for and obtained within 30 days from the effective date of this article with the annual cost of any such permit to be in the amount of $20 per year, except that in reference to any permit obtained after May 1, 2017, shall cover the time frame until May 1, 2018, which would be the commencement of the next fiscal year of the Village. Following May 1, 2018, any permit applied for during a year shall be valid only until the commencement of the next fiscal year. There shall be no proration of the permit cost.

(9)

At the time of seeking the application herein, there needs to be presented verification of the child's membership in either 4-H or Future Farmers of America (FFA).

(10)

Additionally, each owner and occupier of premises seeking and/or obtaining a permit authorizes by the filing of the permit application the Building Inspector and/or other appropriate agent as may be designated on behalf of the Village of Granville from time to time by the Village President and the Village Board to perform such reasonable inspections as the Building Inspector and/or other appropriate agent of the Village deems appropriate in the circumstances in reference to any premises concerning which a permit has been applied for and/or issued at any and all times.

(11)

Any permit issued in reference to any subject premises shall not run with the land; any subsequent owner and/or occupier must apply on his or her own for any permit.

(12)

Additionally, no owner, occupier and/or other person and/or entity shall slaughter any hen or any other animal within the Village of Granville Village limits except within an area zoned Ag-1 and/or in connection with the operation of a lawful business operation on premises appropriately maintained and zoned for such business and/or industrial activity.

(13)

Pigeons are not considered poultry for purposes of this article, and are thus not covered by this article.

(14)

Any and all chicken hens kept on premises within the corporate limits of the Village of Granville shall meet any and all requirements for health and safety as set forth by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and shall be so certified with proof of certification to the Village of Granville upon application for a permit herein.