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ORDINANCE No. 2023 — 04 (As Amended) Page 10 (e) In regard to chickens, no person shall harbor or maintain rooster(s) on his or her property. In order to harbor or maintain hens on the property, the owner shall construct a chicken coop on the premises for such animals which shall be at least ten (10) feet from any property line and at least one hundred (100) feet from any dwelling on any adjacent property. 505.15 ABANDONING ANIMALS PROHIBITED. No person shall abandon an animal within the Municipality. 505.16 KILLING OR INJURING ANIMALS PROHIBITED. (a) No person shall maliciously or willfully kill or injure an animal that is their property or the property of another. This section does not apply to a licensed veterinarian acting in his professional capacity. (b) No person shall maliciously or willfully administer poison to an animal that is their property or the property of another, and no person shall maliciously or willfully place any poisoned food where it may be easily found and eaten by any animal, either upon his own land or the lands of another. This section does not apply to a licensed veterinarian acting in his professional capacity. 505.17 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS PROHIBITED. No person shall overwork, overdrive, overload or torture an animal, deprive one of necessary sustenance, unnecessarily or cruelly beat, needlessly mutilate or kill, or impound or confine an animal without supplying it during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good wholesome food or water. No person shall carry or convey an animal in a cruel or inhuman manner or keep animals in an enclosure without wholesome exercise and change of air, or feed animals food that is adulterated or unwholesome, or work or abandon to die an old, maimed, sick, infirm or diseased animal. 505.18 COLORING OF RABBITS OR BABY POULTRY PROHIBITED. No person shall dye or otherwise color any rabbit or baby poultry, including, but not limited to, chicks and ducklings. No person shall sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, raffle or give away any rabbit or baby poultry which has been dyed or otherwise colored. No poultry younger than four weeks of age may be sold, given away or otherwise distributed to any person in lots of less than six. Stores, shops, vendors and others offering young poultry for sale or other distribution shall provide and operate brooders or other heating devices that may be necessary to maintain poultry in good health and shall keep adequate food and water available to the poultry at all times. 505.19 HUNTING AND TRAPPING PROHIBITED. The hunting of animals or fowl within the Municipality is hereby prohibited. No person shall hunt, kill or attempt to kill any animal or fowl by the use of firearms or any other means. 505.20 BIRD SANCTUARY. The entire corporate area of the Municipality is hereby designated as a bird sanctuary. No person shall trap or molest in any manner any bird or wild fowl or rob the nest of any bird or wild fowl. 50S.21 ANIMALS PROHIBITED IN FOOD STORES. Formatted: Line spacing: Exactly 9 Ipt 4874-8943-1395,v.1