[Amended 3-7-1945]
No person shall permit any horse, cattle, unmuzzled dog, fowl or other animal to run at large upon any street or other public place in the City, except that the provision herein contained as to any unmuzzled dog shall apply only during the period of the disease known as rabies or other emergency when certified by the State Commissioner of Health or other duly authorized body or officer.
[Amended 3-7-1945]
The harboring or maintenance of any animals within the City, by reason of which the peace or order of the City or the health or property of any person therein is unduly affected or damaged, and the harboring or maintaining of any female dog during any mating period thereof unless such dog is so confined as to prevent a nuisance, are hereby prohibited.
Upon the death of any animal within the City, except when the same is properly and lawfully killed for food, the owner or person having control thereof shall immediately dispose of the carcass in a manner so as to avoid any unsanitary condition.
[Added 5-7-1947]
The word "poultry" as used in §§ 157-5 and 157-6 herein shall mean and include domestic fowl such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, guinea fowl and geese.
[Added 5-7-1947]
No person shall build, erect, maintain or keep any poultry shed, yard or enclosure nor any poultry therein within the City of Rye located less than 25 feet from any boundary line or the nearest dwelling. All poultry pens, yards, houses and enclosures shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and all accumulations of filth in and about the same removed at least twice a week. The Health Officer of the City of Rye or his representative is hereby authorized and directed to make such inspection as may from time to time be necessary for the purpose of determining whether or not any such poultry pen, yard, house or enclosure is being kept and maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. Whenever the Health Officer or his representative shall deem it necessary to require any additional precaution or care to be exercised by the owner or other person in possession of any such poultry pen, yard, house or enclosure in order that the same may be kept in a clean, sanitary condition or to remedy any unclean or unsanitary condition, he shall serve a written notice upon such owner or other person, setting forth in detail his instructions for the maintenance of said poultry pen, yard, house or enclosure or for the correction of any unclean or unsanitary condition therein. If the person upon whom such notice is served shall fail within a reasonable time to comply with said notice to the satisfaction of the Health Officer or his representative, the Health Officer or his representative may declare any such poultry yard, pen, house or enclosure to be a public nuisance and order its abatement and removal. Failure on the part of any person to comply with any notice under this section or otherwise to comply with the provisions hereof shall constitute a violation of this section.
[Added 5-7-1947]
Any building, structure, yard, shed or enclosure existing at the time §§ 157-4 and 157-5 take effect and used for the keeping of poultry as herein defined shall not be affected hereby, but such use may continue unless the same becomes a nuisance and is offensive to an adjoining property owner or occupant thereof, and for the purposes hereof said continued use shall be deemed prima facie a nuisance or offensive if it is made to appear, by affidavit of an adjacent owner or occupant, that it materially interferes with or deprives said owner or occupant of the reasonable use and enjoyment of his or her property.