[Adopted 10-10-1984[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: The ordinance adopted this date combined two prior
ordinances adopted 12-16-1941 and 2-19-1958, as amended, into the ordinance
appearing in this article.
No person, firm or corporation shall establish or maintain a piggery
within the Town of Branford unless the owner or keeper thereof shall have
made application for and obtained a permit from the Board of Selectmen and
Zoning Enforcement Officer of the Town of Branford.
Before said Board of Selectmen and Zoning Enforcement Officer issue
said permit, they shall hold a public hearing within the Town, within 10 days
after receipt of application for such permit, notice of which hearing shall
be published in a newspaper having a circulation within the Town.
Before issuing said permit, said Board of Selectmen and Zoning Enforcement
Officer shall certify in their opinion that the proposed or existing location
of said piggery will not be detrimental to public health and welfare or constitute
a public nuisance.
Each such permit shall expire on the first day of August following its issue and may be renewed annually thereafter upon the submission of a new application therefor in accordance with § 118-4 hereof. The Board of Selectmen and Zoning Enforcement Officer of the Town of Branford are authorized to issue said renewal permits upon such terms and conditions as they deem necessary to safeguard the public health and welfare.
As used in this article the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Construed to mean "and" or "or," or both, as the context may require.
Includes an area in the pen, but distinct and separate from the living
area.
Not only waste or refuse food materials collected for the purpose
of feeding pigs but also any and all substances or materials used in the feeding
of pigs, including grain, corn, mash and any other materials, feeds or mixtures
of any nature.
Includes any pigpen, yard, enclosure, place, building, structure,
lean-to or other space used or maintained for the housing, keeping and/or
feeding of any one or more pigs.
Includes any natural person or persons or firm, partnership, corporation,
legal or voluntary association.
Includes all kinds, varieties and ages of pigs, swine and hogs, as
these terms are commonly used.
Each and every pen shall be equipped with adequate troughs or feeding
platforms so constructed that they can be thoroughly cleaned daily and any
remnants of garbage removed daily. A feeding platform shall be constructed
of cement so as to adequately contain fluids.
Each and every pen, including the troughs or feeding platforms, shall
be thoroughly cleaned daily and any remnants of garbage removed, according
to a schedule submitted to and approved by the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
No garbage, meaning hereby waste or refuse food materials, shall be
stored for a period exceeding 48 hours after its collection and during such
time shall be kept in covered, watertight metal receptacles.
B.
Such disposal shall be either by removal from the Town
of Branford, or by burying the same in such a way that it is adequately covered
with earth, or by following any other method, acceptable to the Zoning Enforcement
Officer which is adequate and sufficient to prevent the breeding of flies,
the attraction of rats, mice and vermin, and to prevent odors or smoke from
annoying or damaging persons or property located not less than 300 feet from
any pen.
No garbage shall be allowed to stand or be spread or piled, prior to
disposal, on the surface of any land except for the period of time provided
above.
The owner, lessee or person in control of any premises or pen used for
maintaining or keeping one or more pigs, shall keep such premises free from
accumulation of garbage, rubbish, rags, tin cans, paper, empty barrels, boxes
or any material which, because of its character, condition or improper storage,
may invite the breeding or collection of flies, mosquitos or rodents.
No pen shall be built or maintained on marshy ground or land subject
to overflow nor within 300 feet of any inhabited or public meeting house or
boundary of any school property, except that inhabited house as here used
shall not apply to or mean the dwelling house of the owner, lessee or person
in control of the particular pen.
Any building or structure used or maintained for the housing of pigs
shall be effectively ratproofed through the use of the services of a bonded
exterminator, with the approval of the Zoning Enforcement Officer.
The Zoning Enforcement Officer of the Town of Branford is hereby charged
with the enforcement hereof, and the Zoning Enforcement Officer or his duly
appointed agent shall, in case of violation hereof, have full power to notify
the violator of said violation and the time within which said violation must
be remedied, and if the particular condition is not remedied within said time,
the Zoning Enforcement Officer shall forthwith report the same to the prosecuting
attorney for proper action. Repeated violations of this article shall be reported
directly to the prosecuting attorney for proper action.
Each operator shall be required to establish his intent of complying
with this article daily by furnishing the Zoning Enforcement Officer with
his daily schedule of operation.
This article shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation who
keeps, maintains or feeds fewer than five pigs or swine.
If garbage is cooked preparatory to feeding, and it is strongly recommended
that this procedure be followed, the pen and apparatus used shall be so maintained
and operated as to be clean and cause no obnoxious odors or smoke to persons
or property located more than 300 feet away.
Each day that a violation of any provision hereof shall be in existence after the notice referred to in § 118-17 above shall be construed and considered a distinct and separate violation. Each violation hereof shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding $25.
