[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Estell
Manor 4-2-2024 by Ord. No. 07-2024.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance was originally adopted as Ch.
253 but was renumbered to maintain the alphabetical organization of
the Code.
This chapter prohibits the feeding of unconfined wildlife in
any public park or on any other property owned or operated by the
City of Estell Manor, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare,
and to prescribe penalties for failure to comply.
For the purpose of this chapter the following terms, phrases,
words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein
unless their use in the text of this chapter clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
To give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any
edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing
wildlife. Feeding does not include baiting in the legal taking of
fish and/or game.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
All animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
No person shall feed, in any public park or on any other property
owned or operated by the City of Estell Manor, any wildlife, excluding
confined wildlife (for example, wildlife confined in zoos, parks or
rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at environmental education
centers, or feral cats as part of an approved trap-neuter-release
program).
