City of Monessen, PA
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2021-10-11
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 130 Animals
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Article V Keeping of Livestock or Fowl
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Authorities, Municipal
- Ch 12 Boards, Committees and Commissions
- Ch 17 City Council
- Ch 20 Claims, Municipal
- Ch 23 Contracts
- Ch 28 Departmental Organization
- Ch 32 Equitable Contracting
- Ch 39 Fire Department
- Ch 45 Fiscal Affairs
- Ch 47 Funds
- Ch 51 Intergovernmental Cooperation
- Ch 56 Local Government Investment Trust
- Ch 62 Master Plan Conference
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 74 Pensions and Retirement
- Ch 80 Personnel Policies and Benefits
- Ch 83 Police Department
- Ch 86 Property, Public
- Ch 89 Purchasing
- Ch 93 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 98 Seal
- Ch 104 Social Security
- Ch 110 Vehicles, City-Owned
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 117 Alarms
- Ch 122 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 126 Amusements and Amusement Devices
- Ch 130 Animals
- Ch 130 Art V Keeping of Livestock or Fowl
- § 130-43 General regulations.
- Ch 135 Assemblies, Mass Public
- Ch 137 Attorney Fees and Collection Procedures
- Ch 141 Bicycles
- Ch 147 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 153 (Reserved)
- Ch 158 (Reserved)
- Ch 164 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 167 Outdoor Burning
- Ch 170 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 171 Code and Ordinance Compliance
- Ch 172 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 173 Contractors and Vendors
- Ch 174 Credit and Debit Card Payments
- Ch 175 Curfew
- Ch 182 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 187 Dumping
- Ch 193 Electrical Standards
- Ch 195 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 196 Emergency Response Expenses, Reimbursement for
- Ch 198 (Reserved)
- Ch 202 Excavations and Grading
- Ch 209 Fair Housing
- Ch 211 Fees
- Ch 212 Fire Alarm Regulation
- Ch 213 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 218 Fire Lanes
- Ch 224 Fire Prevention
- Ch 227 Fireworks
- Ch 230 Floodplain Management
- Ch 236 Food Establishments and Vendors
- Ch 242 Handbills
- Ch 245 Human Relations
- Ch 247 (Reserved)
- Ch 253 Insurance
- Ch 259 Loitering
- Ch 264 (Reserved)
- Ch 270 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 270A Mobile Food Vehicles
- Ch 271 Municipal Storm Sewer System
- Ch 273 Nuisances
- Ch 274 (Reserved)
- Ch 275 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 281 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 285 Plumbing
- Ch 289 Property Maintenance
- Ch 292 Property, Vacant, Abandoned and Foreclosed
- Ch 300 Quality of Life
- Ch 308 Real Estate
- Ch 313 Rental Property
- Ch 317 Sewers
- Ch 325 Smoking
- Ch 331 Solid Waste
- Ch 336 Speed-Timing Devices
- Ch 338 Stormwater Management
- Ch 340 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 345 Subdivision and Land Development
- Ch 350 Taxation
- Ch 352 Tenant and Occupancy Registration
- Ch 356 Trees
- Ch 361 Utility Poles
- Ch 364 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 365 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 367 Vehicles, Junk
- Ch 370 Water Supply
- Ch 375 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A380 Ordinance Renumbering
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep
any horses, ponies, cows, calves, swine, sheep, goats or fowl in any
dwelling, rooming house or tenement or any part thereof; nor shall
any of the aforesaid animals or fowl be kept in the yard of any such
building or the lot thereof unless the same is at least 80 feet from
any building in which any human beings are housed.
(1)
An exception shall be the case of goats. Up to two goats per parcel
are allowed, temporarily, up to two weeks, for the purpose of vegetation
management and control. Property owners shall apply for a temporary
permit with the Code Enforcement Department for a flat rate of $25.
Goats must be tethered at all times and must be kept in a humane and
clean manner.
B.
It shall be unlawful to keep any horse, pony or cow at any place
within the limits of the City of Monessen other than in a stable or
barn or shed which has a concrete floor and a sewer or sewers connected
with the sewer system of the City of Monessen.
C.
It is hereby declared unlawful for any fowl to be kept other than
in an enclosure that does not permit them to run at large.
D.
No person, firm or corporation shall keep any horse, pony, cow, calf,
swine, sheep or goat within the City of Monessen without first having
obtained and thereafter having renewed annually, for as long as needed,
a permit from the health authorities of the City.
E.
A fee shall accompany an application for such permit, as set forth
from time to time by ordinance or resolution of the City Council,
and such permit, when granted, shall expire not later than the calendar
year for which it is issued.
