(a) The entire area within the City limits is hereby declared and designated as a bird sanctuary, with the exception of the common pigeon.
(b) No person shall catch, kill, injure, pursue, or have in the person’s possession, either dead or alive, or purchase, expose for sale, transport, or ship to a point within or without this Municipality, or receive or deliver for transportation any bird other than a game bird, or have in the person’s possession any part of the plumage, skin or body of any bird other than a game bird, except as permitted in Ohio R.C. Chapter 1531, or disturb or destroy the eggs, nest, or young of such a bird.
(c) Common pigeons, other than homing pigeons, may be killed at any time, except as provided in Ohio R.C. 1531.021, and their nests or eggs may be destroyed at any time.
(d) Willfully setting out, scattering or exposing poison or poisoned food for the purpose of killing birds is hereby prohibited.
(e) Each bird or any part thereof taken or had in possession contrary to the provisions of this section constitutes a separate offense.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 94-05. Passed 7-27-05.)