(A) Any person desiring to use, within the corporate limits, barbed or spike-topped wire or any wire charged with electric current must apply to the Zoning Board of Appeals for a variance. No variance shall be granted unless the Zoning Board of Appeals and the City Council find that the property for which the variance is requested is primarily used for agricultural purposes in conformity with other provisions of this Code of Ordinances and the use of such wire is not an immediate danger to the public.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, the City Council finds as follows:
(1) Any property which is currently used, or has been used and is likely to be used within the next six months, for primarily agricultural purposes in conformity with other provisions of this Code of Ordinances, and which currently has a fence which consists in whole or in part of barbed or spiked-topped wire or any wire charged with electric current is not a dangerous and hazardous condition; and
(2) The use of such wire under those circumstances is not an immediate danger to the public; and
(3) Such use is therefore permitted to continue in its present state.
(Ord. 99-4, passed 4-5-99)