A. The city council finds that deer feeding by placing grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts, hay, salt, mineral or other edible material, upon real property for the purpose of attracting deer to eat such food source has the effect of enticing deer from their natural habitat into an unnatural urban environment, thereby endangering the deer, resulting in an unnatural growth of the deer population, resulting in an unnatural loss of the deer's instinctive avoidance of humans, resulting in reliance by deer upon such food source, and also endangering persons and domestic animals, and resulting in damage to property.
B. No person shall feed or allow the feeding of deer. For the purpose of this section, feeding shall mean provision of one-half cubic foot or more of grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts, hay, salt, mineral or other edible material, either on the ground or at a height of less than five feet above the ground, in a manner that attracts deer on a regular basis. Living food sources such as fruit trees and other vegetation, shall not be considered as deer feeding.
C. No person being the owner or occupant of any parcel of real property shall place or allow any device or any fruit, grain, mineral, plant, salt, vegetable, or other material to be placed outdoors on any public or private property for the purpose of attracting or feeding deer. (Ord. 636 (part), 2006)