No person shall raise or keep any hogs, cows, goats, geese or ducks, or any number thereof, within the corporate limits of the City, without having first obtained a written permit from the Commissioner of Health to so keep such hogs, cows, goats, ducks or geese, or any number thereof, and such permit may at any time be revoked by such Commissioner of Health, provided that when such permit is granted, such hogs, cows, goats, geese or ducks, or any number thereof, shall be kept upon and within the confines of the premises of the owners of such hogs, cows, goats, geese or ducks.
(1952 Code § 24-1-15)