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The purpose of this subdivision is to define as nuisances within the City of Fort Worth, certain conditions which are detrimental to the health and safety of persons or property or which are detrimental to the senses. The conditions made unlawful by this subdivision are hereby declared to be nuisances.
(Ord. 12931, § 1, passed 3-25-1997)
(a) A person commits an offense if the person owns or is in control of any property upon which the feces or urine of any animal is accumulating in an unsanitary manner or in a manner that creates an unreasonable or noxious odor in a public place.
(b) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the animal waste was a deposit of manure made upon private property for the purpose of land cultivation and the deposit was maintained so as to prevent the breeding of flies and other vectors.
(Ord. 12931, § 1, passed 3-25-1997)
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly keeps swine within the city.
(b) It is an exception to a prosecution under subsection (a) above that the swine were:
(1) Being kept for processing in a slaughterhouse;
(2) Being kept for exhibition for a period not exceeding 21 days in connection with agricultural expositions or fairs; or
(3) Individual swine being kept for sale, for a period not exceeding 14 days, within the boundaries of the Fort Worth Stockyards located at 131 East Exchange Street.
(c) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under subsection (a) above that the swine is a “miniature swine” as defined by Chapter 6, Animals and Fowl, of the city code, and is being kept in compliance with that chapter.
(d) A person commits an offense if the person keeps or permits to be kept any pig pen, lot, stable, yard, shed, sty or other place for keeping swine, in a manner that creates an unreasonable or noxious odor and which:
(1) Causes material distress, discomfort or injury to persons of ordinary sensibilities in the immediate vicinity thereof; or
(2) Interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of private homes by persons of ordinary sensibilities.
(Ord. 12931, § 1, passed 3-25-1997)
(a) A person commits an offense if the person constructs or maintains any dog kennel within 300 feet of a structure which is designed or used as a habitation and which is located on another person’s property.
(b) A person commits an offense if the person constructs or maintains any dog or cat kennel closer than 100 feet from premises which are zoned as residential or which are used for residential purposes.
(c) In this section, the term
KENNEL shall mean:
(1) Any building, lot or premises where four or more dogs or cats (at least eight weeks of age) are kept. This shall not include residentially zoned premises or premises which are used for residential purposes, at which the occupant is keeping his or her own dogs or cats; or
(2) Any building, lot or premises where dogs or cats are housed or accepted for boarding, for which remuneration is received.
(d) Distances in subsection (b) above shall be measured as follows:
(1) For the purpose of subsection (a), above, measurement of the 300 foot distance shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of an existing habitation to the nearest portion of the kennel; and
(2) For the purpose of subsection (b) above, measurement of the 100 foot distance shall be made in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the property line of a residentially zoned property or premises used for residential purposes, to the nearest portion of the kennel.
(e) A person commits an offense if the person keeps, houses or maintains more than three dogs or three cats at the person’s residence in violation of § 6-23.
(Ord. 12931, § 1, passed 3-25-1997; Ord. 23295-06-2018, § 5, passed 6-26-2018, eff. 7-6-2018)
Editor’s note:
Ord. 19424-11-2010, § 2, adopted November 9, 2010, repealed § 11A-21, which pertained to keeping of cattle, horses, sheep, goats, emus, ostriches and rheas. See also the Code Comparative Table.
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