Chapter II · Animal Control and Regulation

Article 7. Fowl

Sections 2-701 to 2-703 · 3 sections

2-701 Keeping of domestic fowl regulated.

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain any domestic fowl upon any private premises in the city (when such keeping is lawful under other ordinances of the city) within 50 feet of any dwelling other than that of the owner or tenant of the premises on which such fowl are kept or maintained, or to keep or maintain such fowl at any time on any premises in a manner or condition constituting a public nuisance.

(Ord. 2008-18; Code 2012)

2-702 Running at large prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person to allow or permit domestic fowl to run or be at large at any time in the city. For the purpose of this section, the term “at large” shall be defined to include those times during which any domestic fowl shall not be confined or kept in pens sufficiently strong or constructed to keep such fowl on the premises of their owner or keeper.

(Ord. 2008-18; Code 2012)

2-703 Destruction of birds and bird’s nests prohibited; exceptions.

It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, kill, maim, or injure in any manner any bird or fowl of the air in the city, or to destroy the nest of any such bird or fowl, except that:

(a)English sparrows and starlings or the nests thereof may be destroyed at any time by any person or approved pest control firm or company when destruction may be done without the use of firearms or other weapons or devices;

(b)Pigeons or other birds of the air that have become public nuisances by reason of their nesting or roosting on any private premises in the city may, upon complaint to the environmental code services division, be destroyed by an approved pest control firm or company under the conditions of the permit issued by the environmental code services division.

(Ord. 2008-18; Code 2012)