23-16 Amend Sec. 505.18 to permit hen-keeping

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Please substitute. Placed on lsr reading and referred to Housing Committee 3/21/16. 2nd Reading 4/4/16. Recommended for adoption and amended 5/2/16. ORDINANCE NO. 23 -16 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Litten, Marx, O'Leary, O'Malley. AN ORDINANCE amending Section 505.18, Certain Animals Prohibited, of the Codi- fied Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, in order to permit the keeping of hens in the City un- der certain conditions. WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable to amend the Code in order to permit the keep- ing of hens in the City of Lakewood under certain conditions; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Revised Code, municipalities have the power of local self - government, and the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. Section 505.18, Certain Animals Prohibited, of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Lakewood, currently reading as follows: 505.18 CERTAIN ANIMALS PROHIBITED. (a) No person shall knowingly keep, maintain or have in his possession or un- der his control within the City any dangerous or carnivorous wild animal or reptile, any vicious domesticated animal, or any other animal or reptile, with vicious or dangerous propensities, except to the extent that an exemp- tion may be applicable pursuant to subsections (c) or (d) hereof. (b) For the purposes of this section, there shall be an irrebuttable presumption, that, when kept or maintained within the City, the animals listed below are considered dangerous animals to which the prohibition of subsection (a) hereof, in the absence of an exemption pursuant to subsections (c) or (d) hereof, applies: (1) All crotalid, elapid and venomous colubroid snakes; (2) Apes; Chimpanzees (Pan); gibbons (hylobates); gorillas (Gorilla); orangutans (Pongo); and siamangs (Symphalangus); (3) Baboons (Papoi, Manrillus); (4) Bears (Ursidae); (5) Bovines (Bovidae), includes all members of the bovine family, for ex- ample goats, sheep, bison and buffalo; (6) Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus); (7) Crocodilians (Crocodilia); (8) Constrictor snakes when fourteen feet in length or more;