505.02 RESTRICTING THE KEEPING OF CERTAIN ANIMALS.

   (a)    Fowl. No person shall keep, harbor or maintain chickens or other poultry, excluding homing pigeons, in the City, except that the keeping, harboring or maintaining of any such animals may be authorized by the Director of Code and Permits for the City by permit duly issued therefor, provided that such animals are located on lots or parcels of three acres or more.

   (b)    Hoofed Animals. No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any horse, pony, cow, hog, calf, goat or other hoofed animal in the City, except that the keeping, harboring or maintaining of any such animals may be authorized by the Director of Codes and Permits for the City by permit duly issued therefor, provided that such animals are located on lots or parcels of three acres or more.

(Ord. 88-332. Passed 10-18-88.)

   (c)    Permits. Such permits may be issued by the Director on written application therefor in such form as the Director requires, and shall specify any restrictions, limitations, conditions or prohibitions which the Director deems reasonably necessary to protect any person or any neighboring use from unsanitary conditions, unreasonable noise or odors, or other annoyance, or to protect the public health or safety. All such animals kept in connection therewith shall be located no closer than fifty feet to any building used or designed for human habitation.

   The Director shall investigate or cause to be investigated the keeping of any such fowl or hoofed animals and shall report the results of such investigation to the Planning Commission. The Commission may, at its discretion, conduct a public hearing on the manner and extent of keeping or maintaining such fowl or hoofed animals and, following such public hearing, may impose such limitations, restrictions, conditions or prohibitions on the keeping or maintaining of any such fowl or hoofed animals on the premises as, in its sound judgement, are reasonably necessary to protect any person or any neighboring use from unsanitary conditions, unreasonable noise or odors, or other annoyance, or to protect the public health or safety.

(Ord. 06-019. Passed 1-17-06.)

   (d)    Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

   Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with any provision of this section, and having a prior conviction under this section, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. (Ord. 88-332. Passed 10-18-88.)