(a) It shall be unlawful to keep, harbor, own or in any way possess within the limits of the City of Davison:
(1) Any warm-blooded, carnivorous or omnivorous, wild or exotic animals, dangerous or undomesticated animals, including hybrids, which are not of a species customarily used as an ordinary household pet, but one which would ordinarily be confined in a zoo, or one which would ordinarily be found in the wilderness of this or any other country, or one which otherwise causes a reasonable person to be fearful of bodily harm or property damage (including, but not limited to nonhuman primates, raccoons, skunks, foxes, fowl, and wild and exotic cats; but excluding ferrets and small rodents of varieties used for laboratory purposes, and chickens if kept under section (d) or as otherwise permitted by law).
(2) Any animal having a poisonous bite.
(3) Any snake either of the constrictor or venomous type.
(b) In a residential area, no person or household shall have a kennel or engage in the commercial business of breeding, buying, selling, trading, training, or boarding cats or dogs or both cats and dogs.
(c) Pens/Cages. In a non-agricultural district it shall be unlawful for any person within the City to posses any horse, cattle, sheep, hogs, or fowl, except chickens under section (d). It shall be unlawful to confine other domestic animals in a structure, pen, coop or yard or otherwise so as to create an unsanitary or obnoxious condition. No such structure, pen or coop shall be constructed or maintained so as to be nearer than the required setback, or five feet from a property line, whichever is greater.
(d) Keeping of Chickens. Chickens may be kept on residential zoned property for non- commercial food-product purposes provided that the property owner, or a tenant having prior written approval of the property owner, applies for and receives a permit with the commensurate fee paid in full. The fee is to be determined by Council through the most recently approved City fee schedule. The conditions and requirements for the keeping of chickens will be specified in the issued permit.
(Ord. 2011-01. Passed 1-24-11; Ord. 2014-01. Passed 2-10-14.)