No person shall operate or maintain a slaughterhouse within the city, except as permitted by the zoning regulations; provided that, after slaughter outside the city, animals may be processed for commercial purposes or otherwise therein. Fowl may be slaughtered and processed for commercial or other purposes within the city, if the places used or maintained for such purpose are kept in a sanitary and clean condition. No person so operating or maintaining such slaughterhouse shall allow parts of fowl, carcasses or blood thereof to remain open and exposed or accumulated in any manner likely to cause the same to putrefy or to attract insects, rodents or vermin. Any person so operating or maintaining such slaughterhouse shall keep such premises clean, and shall forthwith remove the carcasses and remnants of all fowl or blood thereof slaughtered therein and shall exercise care to avoid offensive odors, sights or conditions. It shall be the duty of the Police Chief to inspect any such premises and to make such requirements as to health, sanitation and cleanliness as are reasonably designed to promote the public health and comfort.
(2005 Code, § 4-303)