(A) Area requirements. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, harbor, maintain or permit any person to keep, harbor, maintain or permit the presence on any lot or parcel of land within the city of more than one of any fowl of any kind, sex or description for each ten square feet of ground area available for such purpose. It shall be further unlawful for any person to keep, harbor, maintain or permit the presence on any lot or parcel of land within the city of more than six of any mature poultry or fowl of any kind, sex or description on any lot or parcel of land of one acre or less.
(B) Sanitary requirements. Each place in the city used for feeding, harboring or keeping any poultry or fowl shall be maintained in a sanitary manner at all times and kept free of offensive odors, flies, rodents and other pests.
(C) Declaration of nuisance; complaint; violation. It shall be unlawful to keep any poultry or fowl in the city which, by loud, frequent or habitual crowing or any other noise annoyance from such animal, shall disturb the peace and quiet of any person of ordinary sensitivities. Any such person who believes that there has been a violation of this division (C) shall have the right to file a complaint against the owner or keeper of such poultry or fowl in the Municipal Court of the city, whereupon a hearing within a reasonable time thereafter shall be held and a determination made as to whether such loud, frequent or habitual crowing or other noise annoyed the peace of such person and, if so, the court may, thereupon, declare such fowl to be a nuisance and order the owners or keeper therefrom to remove such fowl from the city limits.
(Ord. 2013-04, passed 2-9-2013) Penalty, see § 90.99