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.