618.17 CITY DESIGNATED AS BIRD SANCTUARY.
   (a)   The entire area embraced within the City is hereby designated as a bird sanctuary.
   (b)   No person shall trap, hunt, shoot, or attempt to shoot or molest in any manner, any bird or wild fowl, or rob bird nests or wild fowl nests. However, if starlings or similar birds are found to be congesting in such numbers in a particular locality that they constitute a nuisance or menace to health or property, in the opinion of the County Board of Health, then in such an event such Board shall meet with representatives of the local Audubon Society, garden clubs and service clubs of the City, after having given at least three days' notice to meet. If as a result of such meeting no satisfactory alternative is found to abate such a nuisance, then such birds may be destroyed in such numbers and in such a manner as is deemed advisable by the County Board of Health under the supervision of the Chief of Police.
(Ord. 66-44. Passed 6-20-66.)
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.