It shall be lawful for any person to keep, permit or allow any
domestic chicken hens in any residential district or neighborhood
business district under the following terms and conditions and, after
having received a license from the Village Clerk to keep said chicken
hens, as prescribed herein under the following terms and conditions:
A. No more than six chicken hens shall be allowed for each single-family
dwelling.
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B. No chicken hens shall be allowed in multifamily complexes, including
duplexes.
C. No roosters shall be allowed at any time.
D. Chicken hens are to be restricted to the rear or backyard of any
lot in any residential zoning district or the rear or backyard of
a residential use in any other zoning district.
E. Chicken hens shall be kept as pets only and for personal use only;
no persons shall sell eggs or meat or engage in chicken breeding or
fertilizer production for commercial purposes.
F. There shall not be any outdoor slaughtering of chicken hens.
G. Persons wishing to keep chicken hens within the Village must obtain
a license from the Office of the Village Clerk after payment of an
annual fee of $25 for the first chicken hen and $5 for each additional
chicken hen up to five and after inspection and approval of the coop
and cage that chickens are to be kept in by the Code Enforcement Officer.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
CHICKEN HEN
A domesticated female chicken, over a year old.
OWNER
Any person or persons, firm, association or corporation who
or which at any time owns or has custody or control of or harbors
or is otherwise responsible for any chicken hen which is kept, brought
or comes within the corporate limits of the Village of Phoenix, New
York. If the chicken hen owner is not of legal age, the parent, guardian
or other adult person with whom the minor chicken hen owner is staying
or residing will be held responsible.
An application for a license to have chicken hens on the premises
shall contain the following information:
A. The name, phone number and property address of the applicant.
B. The location of the subject property.
C. The size of the subject property.
D. The number of chicken hens the applicant seeks to keep on the property.
E. A description of any coops or cage that will house the chicken hens,
together with a description of any fencing barriers or enclosures
surrounding the curtilage of the property.
F. A scale drawing showing the precise location of cages, coops, enclosures,
fences, and the manner in which feces and other waste materials will
be removed from the property or be treated such as to not result in
unsanitary conditions or any attraction or rodents and insects.
G. A signed statement from the property owner, if the applicant is not
the property owner, granting the applicant permission to engage in
the keeping of chicken hens as described in the license application.
H. The addresses of all properties within a fifty-foot radius of the
subject property.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall
be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable
by a maximum fine of $250 or by a term of imprisonment of not more
than 15 days, or both. Each day of continued violation shall constitute
a separate offense.