(A) The City Clerk shall issue a permit to keep or maintain animals in the City only after the recommendation of the City sanitation inspector. The sanitation inspector shall inform the City Clerk that the requirements of this chapter have been complied with before the City Clerk shall issue such permit. The City sanitation inspector may deny the issuance of a permit if fraudulent or untrue representations are made by the applicant or the applicant is in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 2197, 3-16-1987)
(B) Before being issued a permit, the applicant shall circulate a petition among all those households located within three hundred feet (300') of the applicant's property. The petition shall state the number and type(s) of animals the applicant wishes to keep and shall give the location of the property on which the applicant wishes to keep the animals. The applicant must obtain an acknowledgment from every household within three hundred feet (300') whether the household resident approves or disapproves of the application, and must receive the approval of seventy five percent (75%) of the households located within three hundred feet (300') of his property before an animal permit will be issued. If the applicant is unable to obtain an acknowledgment from a household within three hundred feet (300'), the applicant may substitute a statement for the household excluded, explaining the attempts made to obtain the acknowledgment, and the results of those attempts.
The sanitation inspector shall not issue a permit if acknowledgment and approval, as described above, has not been met. (Ord. 3018, 10-24-2011)
(C) The sanitation inspector, prior to the issuance of a permit, may inspect places and premises where any of the animals are kept or housed and, if a violation of this chapter is found to exist, the sanitation inspector shall deny issuance of the permit to the applicant. (Ord. 2197, 3-16-1987)