81-3-Ordinance-Keeping Livestock Requirements-03/04/1981ORDINANCE 81-3
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ORDINANCE NO. 2-9-72
PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OF CERTAIN STOCK IN THE
CITY; AN ENCLOSURE REQUIRED IN THE KEEPING OF
CERTAIN ANIMALS; PROVIDING A PENALTY, AND
DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGER, TEXAS:
LIVESTOCK
SECTION I. Keeping of certain stock in the City.
Hogs. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation
or other business entity, including but not limited to veterinary
clinics, to feed, breed, or keep any hog or hogs, pig or pigs, in
any lot, pen, building, stable or other enclosures in the city,
any part of which lot, pen, building, stable or other enclosure
is nearer than one thousand (.1,000) feet to any residential building.
Other Animals. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,
corporation or other business entity, including but not limited to
veterinary clinccs, to feed, breed, stable, pasture or
-keep any cow
or cows, goat or goats, horse or horses, or sheep in any lot, pen,
building, stable or other enclosure in the City, any part of which
Lot
, pen, building, stable or other enclosure is within two hundred
(200) feet of any residential building.
SECTION II. Enclosure required in keeping certain, animals.
Size of Lots. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person,
firm, corporation or other business entity, including but not
Limited
to veterinary clinics, to stable, pasture, feed, breed,
or keep any hog or hogs, pig or pigs, cow or cows, goat or goats,
horse or horses, or sheep in any lot, pen, building, stable or
other enclosure in the City, smaller in size and dimensions than
is required by the following specifications:
1. HOGS: For one hog or pig, a lot, pen, building or other
enclosure of not less than one hundred (100) square feet
shall be required. For each additional hog or pig in
any such lot, pen, building or other enclosure, an
additional one hundred (100) square feet shall be required.
2. COWS, SHEEP AND GOATS: For one cow, sheep or goat, a lot,
nPn, hui_ldi_na. stable or other enclosure of not less than
four hundred (400) square feet -shall be requirea. l,or
each additional cow, sheep or goat in any such lot, pen,
building, stable or other enclosure an additional four
hundred (400) square feet shall be required.
Manure Boxes. Each and every lot, pen, building, stable or
other enclosure in the City ain which any of the above named
animals, or other species are kept, fed, bred, stabled, pastured
or housed shall have a manure no less than four (4) feet
square and not less than three (3) feet deep in which all manure
and droppings shall be placed each day. Each such box shall be
securely screened or otherwise protected from files, vermin and
rodents and shall be thoroughly cleaned out and disinfected at
least once each week. It shall hereafter be unlawful to pile
or stack manure in open stacks in the City.
SECTION III. Penalty Provisions.
Any person, firm, corporation or other business entity,
including but not limited to veterinary clinics violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an
amount not to exceed Two Hundred 00) Dollars. Each day
such violation shall continue or be permitted shall be treated
as a separate offense.
SECTION IV. Repealing Clause.
All Ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed. If any portion of this ordinance shall be
declared void or unconstitutional, such declaration shall not
affect the remaining portion of this ordinance.
SECTION V. Effective Date.
That an emergency exists due to the need to preserve the
public health, safety, and welfare, necessitating that this
ordinance become effective immediately upon its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE DAY OF .>.6V'46 -' ,
1981.
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