The Mayor and Common Council do hereby determine and declare that the maintenance of apiaries and the keeping of bees in larger numbers than two stands or swarms within the City has become and is dangerous to the inhabitants of the City, and become and is an obstruction to the free use of property in the City, so as to interfere with and prevent the comfortable enjoyment of life and property of a considerable number of persons, residents of the City; and the maintenance of apiaries and the keeping of bees in larger numbers than two stands or swarms at any one place within the City is a public nuisance.
(Ord. 421, 9-13-1909)