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Editor's Note: Original § 95-102 of the 1966 Code, License required, was repealed at time of adoption of Code by the Board of Health (see Ch. 405, General Provisions, Board of Health, Art. I).
A. 
All live poultry, pigeons or other fowl shall be confined in coops or runs.
B. 
All coops and runs shall be located outside of and completely apart from any building used, in whole or in part, for dwelling purposes in which people congregate or use as a food or eating establishment.
C. 
All coops or runs shall be located and constructed in accordance with the regulations, if any, of the Zoning and Building Codes.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Ch. 128, Zoning and Ch. 23, Construction Codes, Uniform.
D. 
All coops hereafter constructed shall be provided with concrete floors.
E. 
A sufficient number of roosts to provide roosting space for each individual specimen of poultry or fowl kept in the coop and sufficient number of properly placed drop boards beneath each roost, to catch all droppings excreted by the poultry or other fowl while on the roost, shall be provided.
F. 
All coops and runs and the entire surroundings of all such places shall be kept clean at all times and shall be subject to periodic inspection by the Health Officer of the Borough, or his representative.
G. 
Coops and runs shall be disinfected or otherwise treated, when so directed by the Board.
H. 
The floors of all coops shall be kept clean and dry at all times.
I. 
All of the dropping shall be removed from each coop and buried, removed from the premises or otherwise disposed of in a manner approved by the Board, at least once each week.
J. 
All food for immediate consumption shall be placed in suitable feeding troughs or similar containers, and all other food shall be stored in rat-proof containers at all times.
K. 
No coop or run shall be located within 30 feet of any dwelling unit or place where people congregate, or within 200 feet of any food or eating establishment or within eight feet of any property line.
L. 
No person shall keep more than one individual specimen of poultry or fowl in any coop for each three square feet of usable floor space within said coop.
M. 
No poultry food shall be scattered about any premises.
N. 
Pigeons may be flown if properly supervised, but for a period of no longer than one hour per day.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
The provisions of § 457-104 do not apply to the keeping of live poultry, pigeons or other fowl for sale or for the preparation for sale, but in those cases the provisions of § 457-108 apply.
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of selling or preparing for sale live fowl or poultry in the Borough without first having obtained from the Board a license for such purpose.
B. 
Before such license is granted, the applicant shall submit to the Board an application therefor, in writing, setting forth thereon the description of the premises intended to be so used, the character of the building wherein the business is contemplated to be conducted and also a description of all buildings, if any, located within a distance of 200 feet of the premises intended to be so used.
C. 
A license will be denied if the application therefor or an independent investigation reveals that the premises intended to be so used:
(1) 
Is within 200 feet of any church, library, hospital, sanitarium or other public building, as measured from the nearest boundary line of the premises intended to be so used;
(2) 
Is detrimental to the health of or constitutes a nuisance to the surrounding neighbors;
(3) 
Does not strictly comply with all the requirements of this Sanitary Code and the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health; or
(4) 
Will tend to create a nuisance.
D. 
All poultry or fowl shall be sold within 24 hours of slaughtering, unless the same shall be adequately refrigerated in accordance with the provisions of this Sanitary Code applying to the refrigeration of meat.
E. 
No person shall sell, or offer for sale, any fowl or poultry which is diseased or in any manner unfit for human consumption. This shall apply to such fowl or poultry, whether alive or slaughtered.