§ 10-191. Running at large; pens, coops or other enclosures.

(a)

It shall be prohibited for any person raising or keeping chickens, turkeys, geese, guineas, ducks, pigeons or other fowl or rabbits to allow or permit the fowl or rabbits to run at large or be at large.

(b)

It shall be the duty of every person raising or keeping chickens, turkeys, geese, guineas, pigeons or other fowl, except pigeons and migratory waterfowl being raised or kept pursuant to a permit issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior on private property, to keep them in a pen, coop or enclosure. Such pen, coop or enclosure shall be constructed in such manner that the fowl shall be confined within such pen, coop or enclosure at all times. Such pen, coop or enclosure shall be at a distance of at least 25 feet from any and every building or structure used for sleeping, dining, living or working, shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times, and shall be kept in such a manner as will be reasonably calculated not to become offensive to adjacent neighbors or to the public.

(c)

It shall be the duty of every person raising or keeping migratory waterfowl pursuant to a permit issued by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior on private property to keep them in a pen, coop or enclosure, which shall be constructed in such a manner that fowl shall be confined within such pen, coop or enclosure at all times. Such pen, coop or enclosure shall be a distance of at least 25 feet from any and every building or structure used for sleeping, dining, living or working, shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times, and shall be kept in such a manner as will be reasonably calculated not to become offensive to adjacent neighbors or to the public.

(d)

It shall be the duty of every person raising or keeping rabbits on private property to keep them in a coop, pen or enclosure at all times. Such pen, coop or enclosure shall conform to guidelines available at the animal care center and be constructed in such a manner that such rabbits shall be confined within the pen, coop or enclosure at all times. Such structure shall be no less than two feet above the ground or slab and shall be a distance of at least 25 feet from any and every building or structure, not on the owner's property, used for sleeping, dining, living or working. The area shall be kept in a sanitary condition at all times and shall be kept in such a manner as will be reasonably calculated not to become offensive to adjacent neighbors or to the public not on the owner's property.

(Ord. No. O-142-2017, § 3, 8-8-2017)