Except as provided in § 98-41, it shall be unlawful for any person to keep any live hog or pig within the City except for immediate shipment, nor shall any person maintain any stock pen or similar place within 100 yards of any dwelling within the City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any potbellied pig weighing more than 150 pounds, horse, mule, pony, cow, bull, goat or sheep within the City, unless permission to do so is first obtained from City Council. The City Council shall consider whether the keeping of such animals is likely to create a health hazard. When it is proposed to keep one or more horses, mules, ponies or cows within the City, the owner shall submit an application to the City Council setting forth the number of such animals, the location of the stable or barn, and the plans for its construction. If in the opinion of the City Council it is proper to do so, permission may be granted for the construction of such barn or stable in accordance with the plans submitted and for the keeping of such horses, mules, ponies or cows in such barn, subject to any conditions that the Council prescribes. The barn or stable shall be subject to inspection by the Director of the local Health Department or his designee at any hour during the daytime; and the permission granted by the City Council shall be revocable at any time when, in the sole discretion of the City, it is proper to do so.
[Amended 4-14-2020 by Ord. No. 20-7]
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage, for either personal or business reasons, in owning, raising, feeding, keeping, and selling live poultry or fowl of any kind for any purpose in the City.
[Amended 4-14-2020 by Ord. No. 20-7]
Each stable, pen, or other place within the City where any animal is kept shall be maintained by the keeper at all times in a clean and sanitary condition and free of offensive odors and solid and liquid waste matter. No enclosure intended primarily for the keeping of any animal shall be constructed, maintained, or substantially reconstructed on or after December 9, 1987, within 10 feet of any lot line. Any place where an animal is kept which is found to be in violation of this section shall be deemed to be a public nuisance, subject to abatement by the City at the expense of the person responsible therefor or the owner of the property whereon it exists.
The territory within the corporate limits of the City is hereby designated a bird sanctuary; and it shall be unlawful for any person to kill, trap, hunt, shoot or attempt to shoot or molest in any manner bird or wild fowl or to rob bird or wild fowl nests of their eggs within the City, provided that:
A. 
If starlings or similar birds are found to be congregating in such numbers in a particular locality within the City that they constitute a nuisance or menace to health or property in the opinion of the proper health authorities of the City, such health authorities shall meet with representatives of the bird club, garden club or humane society, or as many of such clubs as exist in the City, after having given at least three days' actual notice of the time and place of the meeting to the representatives of such clubs.
B. 
If, as a result of the meeting, no satisfactory alternative is found to abate such nuisance, such birds may be disposed of in such numbers and in such manner as is deemed advisable by an Animal Control Officer.
A. 
In the control of wild animals, an Animal Control Officer shall use the destruction thereof, or means which may reasonably be expected to result in their destruction, whether by hunting, trapping or otherwise, only as techniques of last resort; and except in the case of an emergency presenting an imminent threat to the public health, safety and welfare, he shall not do so without the specific prior authorization of the City Manager in each instance.
B. 
The City Manager shall promulgate, pursuant to this section and in accordance with its standards, a list of approved (humane) techniques and a procedure for response to emergencies.
C. 
For the purposes of this section, the term "humane techniques" shall not be taken to include the use of steel-jaw leghold traps or chemicals which reasonably can be expected to result in any instance in a slow, painful death.