(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)