(a) No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any horse, pony, cattle, sheep, hog, goat, llama, alpaca or other hoofed animal in the city, except that the keeping, harboring or maintaining of any such animal may be located on one acre or more.
(b) No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any chicken, turkey, geese, duck, pheasant, quail or other fowl in the city, except that the keeping, harboring or maintaining of any such fowl may be located on one acre or more.
(c) Recognized agricultural education programs and projects such as FFA and 4H are exempt from divisions (a) and (b) as long as the program or project is supervised by school personnel or extension service personnel, housed on school property, or housed on private property for a period less than one year for the purpose of showing and selling at the county fair. Furthermore, persons who depend upon livestock to supplement their incomes or diets are exempt from divisions (a) and (b).
(d) Divisions (a) and (b) shall not apply to shows or exhibits duly permitted and approved by the Police Department and/or Health Department as part of a community event. However, no permit shall be approved where it is proposed to offer the animals for sale.
(e) Persons currently owning, keeping, or harboring animals mentioned in divisions (a) and (b) of this section shall have 180 days from the effective date of this section to comply by moving the animals to appropriately-sized parcels.
(f) No person shall raise or hatch any livestock mentioned in divisions (a) and (b) in a residence or business where any person resides or works, except that the business be solely an operation properly licensed and designed for raising the livestock.
(g) No owner, keeper, harborer or person having charge of any livestock shall allow the animal to escape or permit the animal to run at large on any public thoroughfare or public land or any private premises. When made aware that an animal has escaped, the owner, keeper, harborer or person having charge of the animal must immediately catch and confine the animal.
(h) No owner, keeper, harborer or person having charge of any livestock shall permit the animal to graze, scratch, dig or otherwise damage any lawn, tree, shrub, plant, building or other public or private property other than the property of the owner or person having charge of the animal. This section shall not apply to private property onto which the owner or person having charge of any animal has permission of the owner or occupier of the property authorizing the entry of the animal onto the property.
(i) Complaints of improper nutrition, lacking veterinarian care, abuse or neglect of any animal in this section will be investigated by the Health Department, Police Department or County Humane Society and reported to the proper authorities.
(j) Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Subsequent offenses shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1986 Code, § 505.17) (Ord. 15-2009, passed 6-1-2009)