CHAPTER 4
ANIMAL CONTROL

ARTICLE A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION:

5-4A-1: Livestock, Poultry And Swine

5-4A-2: Dangerous Animals

5-4A-3: Animals At Large; Impoundment, Fee

5-4A-4: Strays

5-4A-5: Abandonment

5-4A-6: Honeybees

5-4A-7: Penalty

5-4A-1: LIVESTOCK, POULTRY AND SWINE:

   A.   It shall be unlawful for any person to rear or keep any livestock including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, goats, and equine in the city.

   B.   It shall be unlawful for any person to rear or keep any fowl including chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guinea or other domestic fowl in the city.

   C.   It shall be unlawful for any person to rear or keep any swine in the city except for miniature Vietnamese potbelly pigs or similar miniature pigs which may be kept under the following conditions:

      1.   It weighs less than eighty (80) pounds;

      2.   It is spayed or neutered;

      3.   It is tested free of pseudorabies;

      4.   It is not for a food source; and

      5.   No household shall have more than one.

   D.   This section shall not apply to veterinary or animal hospitals operated by a doctor of veterinary medicine licensed in the state of Kansas or to any packing plant or slaughterhouse lawfully operated within the city. (Ord. 1095, 10-6-2008)

5-4A-2: DANGEROUS ANIMALS:

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or allow to run at large any dangerous, vicious or wild animal; or to keep, maintain or allow to go at large any poisonous or stinging snake, insect or arachnid, save and except as provided in this chapter. (Ord. 867-B, 6-3-1985; amd. 1998 Code)