The entire area embraced within the corporate limits of the City of Cookeville, Tennessee, is designated as a bird sanctuary.
It shall be unlawful to trap, shoot, hunt, or attempt to shoot or molest in any manner any bird or wild fowl or to rob any bird nest or wild fowl nest.
Provided, however, if starlings or similar birds are found to be congregating in such numbers in a particular locality that they constitute a nuisance or menace to health or property in the opinion of the health authorities of the City of Cookeville, then in such event such health authorities shall meet with the representatives of the Audubon Society, Bird Club, Garden Club, or as many of said clubs as are found to exist in the City of Cookeville, after having given at least three (3) days actual notice of the time and place of said meeting to the representatives of said clubs. If as a result of said meeting no satisfactory alternative is found to abate such nuisance, then said birds may be destroyed in such numbers and in such manner as is deemed advisable by said health authorities under the supervision of the chief of police of the City of Cookeville, Tennessee.
(1970 Code, § 3-109)