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The Animal Control Officer may prescribe general conditions for the keeping of animals or fowl and specific conditions as to a particular animal or fowl or particular premises as in his or her judgment is necessary to safeguard public health and the general welfare. The Animal Control Officer may revoke any permit granted pursuant to this chapter if any condition is violated or if any pet becomes a public nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-6)
The Animal Control Officer and City Clerk may refuse a permit to keep or maintain animals or fowl hereunder for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter and shall refuse a permit if in his or her judgment the animals or fowl should not be kept upon the premises described in the application for permit. If any permit be refused, the fee paid with the application shall be retained by the city to pay its expenses in the investigation and consideration thereof.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-7)
All structures, pens, coops, or yards wherein animals or fowl are kept or permitted to be shall be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition, devoid of all rodents and vermin, and free from objectionable odors. The interior walls, ceilings, floors, partitions, and appurtenances of all the structures shall be whitewashed or painted as the Animal Control Officer shall direct. The Animal Control Officer, upon the complaint of any individual, shall inspect any structure or premises and issue any order as may be necessary to carry out the provisions hereof.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-8)
No person shall permit any horses, mules, donkeys, ponies, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits, chickens, geese, ducks, or turkeys of which he or she is the owner, caretaker, or custodian to be at large within the city. Any creature shall be deemed to be AT LARGE when it shall be off the premises owned or rented by its owner and unaccompanied by the owner or an agent or employee of the owner.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-9) Penalty, see § 90.999
No manure shall be dumped or left on any street, alley, sidewalk, or on any open area or lot in any inhabited portion of the city. Manure shall not be used to grade in whole or in part any sidewalk, street, open area, or lot in the section unless the manure is completely covered with at least four inches of dirt.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-10) (Ord. 170, passed 3-13-1989; Ord. 557, passed 4-9-2012) Penalty, see § 90.999
BEEKEEPING
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APIARY. The assembly of one or more colonies of bees on a single lot.
BEEKEEPER. A person who owns or has charge of one or more colonies of honey bees or a person who owns or controls a lot on which a colony is located whether or not the person is intentionally keeping honey bees.
BEEKEEPING EQUIPMENT. Anything used in the operation of an apiary, such as hive bodies, supers, frames, top and bottom boards and extractors.
COLONY. An aggregate of honey bees consisting principally of workers, but having, when perfect, one queen and at times drones, brood, combs, and honey.
FLYWAY BARRIER. A barrier that raises the flight path of bees as they come and go from a hive.
HIVE. The receptacle inhabited by a colony.
HONEY BEE. All life stages of the common domestic HONEY BEE. This definition does not include wasps, hornets, African subspecies, or Africanized hybrids.
NUCLEUS COLONY. A small quantity of honey bees with a queen housed in a smaller than usual hive box designed for a particular purpose, and containing no supers.
SUPER. A box that holds the frames where bees will store the honey.
SWARMING. The process where a queen bee leaves a colony with a large group of worker bees in order to form a new honey bee colony.
UNUSUAL AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR. Any instance in which unusual aggressive characteristics such as stinging or attacking without provocation occurs.
(Prior Code, § 6-8-1) (Ord. 634, passed 4-11-2016)
(A) Honey bees are an asset to the community and important in the pollination of plants and in the production of honey and other products.
(B) The purpose and intent of this subchapter it to permit and establish requirements for the keeping of honey bee colonies, hives, and equipment within the city.
(Prior Code, § 6-8-2) (Ord. 634, passed 4-11-2016)
(A) Hives cannot be located in the front yard and must be located a minimum of ten feet from the rear or side property lines and 25 feet from public rights-of-way unless further restricted elsewhere in this code. A corner lot shall be considered to have two front yards. Hive openings shall face in toward subject property’s backyard.
(B) Honey bee colonies shall be kept in removable frames, which shall be kept in sound and usable condition.
(C) For each colony permitted to be maintained under this section, there may also be maintained upon the same apiary lot, one nucleus colony in a hive structure not to exceed one standard nine and five- eighths-inch depth, ten-frame hive body with no supers.
(D) A flyway barrier at least six feet in height shall shield any part of a property line that is within 30 feet of a ground hive. The flyway barrier shall consist of a wall, fence, dense vegetation, or a combination thereof, and it shall be positioned to transect both legs of a triangle extending from an apex at the hive to each end point of the part of the property line to be shielded.
(E) Rooftop apiaries are allowed but shall not be located closer than 15 feet from a principal building on an abutting lot.
(Prior Code, § 6-8-3) (Ord. 634, passed 4-11-2016)
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