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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2146 - Amending Title Chapter 7.04 . • 4111 ORDINANCE NO. 2/9e.0 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING AMENDING REDDING MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 7.04 ENTITLED ANIMALS: GENERAL PROVISIONS. The City Council of the City of Redding does ordain as follows: Section 1. Chapter 7.04 of the Redding Municipal Code is amended to read as described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof as if fully set forth herein. Section 2. On the basis of the initial study prepared by the Development Services Department, the City Council (1) finds that the amendment to Redding Municipal Code Title 7 entitled "Animals" has no substantial impact upon the environment and an environmental impact report is not necessary, and (2) approves the negative declaration with the following findings: The Project is compatible with the Redding General Plan, the surrounding land use and the Code of the City of Redding California, and will not significantly alter existing land form. Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after the date of its adoption, and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause its publication according to law. I HEREBY CERTIFY that this ordinance was introduced and read at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 19th day of March , 1996; and was read and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 2nd day of April , 1996, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: P. Anderson, R. Anderson, McGeorge, Murray and Kehoe NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None !jam%f r• � /�r � DAVID : . KEHOE, M.;or ATTEST: FORM APPROVED: Sfr 4 I legfei-1.1 CONNIE STROHMAYER,/ity Clerk W. LEONARD W GATE, City Attorney ". • • TITLE 7 ANIMALS Chapters: 7.04 General Provisions 7.08 Bees 7.12 Dogs 7.16 Impoundment 7.20 Sale of Unredeemed Animals 7.24 Bird Sanctuaries 7.28 Seizure of Inhumanely Treated Animals r A LAI 11.nI . • • GENERAL PROVISIONS Chapter 7.04 GENERAL PROVISIONS Sections: 7.04.010 Definitions. 7.04.020 Tethering animals on street. 7.04.030 Maltreatment. 7.04.040 Harassing police dogs. 7.04.050 Running at large. 7.04.060 Sanitary conditions. 7.04.070 Enclosure required. 7.04.080 Noise. 7.04.090 Hunting, trapping, or keeping wild animals. 7.04.100 Slaughter or rendering of animals. 7.04.110 Fowl and gnawing mammals. 7.04.120 Roosters, peafowl (peacocks), and guinea fowl. 7.04.130 Exotic birds—Within thirty-five feet of other residence. 7.04.010 Definitions. All Animal permit processing regulations fall under Chapter 18.71 of the Municipal Code. The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall, for the purposes of this chapter, have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: A. "Animals" includes horses, ponies, mules, burros, jacks, jennies, cows, bulls, calves, heifers, sheep, goats, swine, llamas, rabbits, and all other domestic or domesticated animals other than household pets. B. "Household pets" includes cats, dogs, pot-bellied pigs, canaries, and other kindred animals and birds usually and ordinarily kept as household pets. C. "Pot-bellied pig" includes the Vietnamese variety miniature pig of less than one hundred fifty (150) pounds in weight and less than twenty-two (22) inches in height at the shoulder. D. "Poultry" includes pigeons, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and all other domestic or domesticated fowl other than household pets. E. "Exotic birds" includes parakeets, parrots, (including macaws), cockatiels, cockatoos, and other similar birds. F. "Large fowl" includes emus, ostriches, rheas, or other similar flightless birds. G. "Pound" includes any location used for the impounding of animals by the poundmaster of the City pursuant to the direction of the City Council and may include the animal shelter of the County. H. "Wild animal" includes specifically any live nonhuman primate, raccoon, skunk, fox, coyote, wolf, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx, poisonous snake or like reptile, or any 2 • • ANIMALS other warm-blooded mammal which can normally be found in the wild state and is not typically domesticated in California. 7.04.020 Tethering animals on street. No person shall tether any cow, horse, or other animal or graze the same upon any public street, avenue, sidewalk, or alley, or so near to any public street, avenue, sidewalk, or alley as to endanger to annoy any person, horseman, or occupant of any vehicle passing thereon. 7.04.030 Maltreatment. No person shall cruelly beat, torture, misuse, deprive of food or water, or otherwise maltreat any animal in the City. 7.04.040 Harassing police dogs. No person shall strike, threaten to strike, tease, or harass any official police dog while any such dog is in the company of a peace officer or is located within an official police vehicle or police kennel. 7.04.050 Running at large. It is declared to be a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to allow or permit animals or poultry other than household pets to run at large upon any public street or place or to trespass upon the property of another. This provision shall not be construed as permitting the running at large of any household pets which are restricted by the provisions of this code or of any other ordinances of the City or by any law applicable thereto. 7.04.060 Sanitary conditions. It is declared to be a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to keep or permit to be kept upon any premises any animals or poultry or household pets in a foul, offensive, obnoxious, filthy, or unsanitary condition. 7.04.070 Enclosure required. It is the duty of every owner or persons in possession and in control of animals and poultry, except household pets, to keep them within a good and substantial enclosure within the City which will prevent their running at large. This provision shall not be construed as permitting the running at large of any household pets which are restricted by provisions of this code or any other ordinances of the City or by any law applicable thereto. 7.04.080 Noise. A. It is declared to be a nuisance and it is unlawful to keep, maintain, or permit on any lot or parcel of land, any animals, poultry, or household pets which by any sound or cry shall disturb the peace and comfort of any neighborhood or interfere with any person in the reasonable and comfortable enjoyment of life or property. B. It is declared to be a nuisance and is unlawful to make, cause, or suffer, or permit to be made or caused upon any premises any unnecessary noises or sounds which are physically annoying to persons of ordinary sensitiveness or which are so harsh or so 3 • • ANIMALS prolonged or unnatural or unusual in their use, time, or place as to occasion physical discomfort. 7.04.090 Hunting, trapping, or keeping wild animals. No persons shall, at any time, hunt, pursue, kill, trap, take, keep, or destroy any quail of any description or species, or any other wild animal or wild bird within the boundaries of the City. The provisions of this section shall not prohibit the keeping and maintaining of wild animals within the City under the following conditions: A Any wild animals which are kept in or managed by a zoo, museum, State-licensed educational institution,permitted circus,properly licensed wildlife rehabilitation centers, and State and Federal agencies responsible for the regulation of wild animals. B. Any wild animals in a licensed veterinary hospital for treatment. (Ord. 1 657 § 1 (part), 1983.) 7.04.100 Slaughter or butchering of animals. It is declared to be a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person to slaughter or butcher livestock animals in the City other than at a place of commercial business for such purposes with the exception of legally acquired game animals, which may be butchered in an appropriate enclosure. 7.04.110 Fowl and gnawing mammals. It is unlawful for any person to suffer or permit any chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, doves, squabs, or similar fowl or any hares, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats, mice, or any other similar gnawing mammal, owned or controlled by him, to run at large or go upon the premises of any person in the City, or to keep the same within forty feet of any dwelling house or structure used as a dwelling house, unless the house or structure is occupied by him; or to keep the same within fifteen feet of any side and rear property lines, except where the rear of the property abuts on a public alley, in which case a distance of fifteen feet from side property lines shall be maintained, or to keep the same within fifty feet of any front property line. 7.04.120 Roosters, peafowl (peacocks), and guinea fowl. It is unlawful for any person to keep any rooster over three months old within the City. It is unlawful for any person to keep any peafowl (peacocks) within the City. 7.04.130 Exotic birds—Within thirty-five feet of other residence. It is unlawful for any person to keep parakeets, parrots (including macaws, cockatiels, cockatoos, or other exotic birds) within thirty-five feet of any building used as a dwelling or residence by any person other than the owner or custodian of the birds. It is unlawful for any person to keep more than twenty-five parakeets in an outside open cage or enclosure. 4 In the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Shasta CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION ORDINANCE NO. 2146 %N ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RED - No. 2146 ANG AMENDING REDDING MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 7.04 ENTITLED ANIMALS: GENERAL PROVISIONS. The City Council of the City of Redding does ordain as follows: Notice of Ordinance treatment. (Ord. 1657 t 1 (part), 1983.) 7.04.100 Slaughter or Butchering of Animals. It is declared to be a nuisance and it is unlawful for any person; to slaughter or butcher livestock animals in the City other than at a place of commercial business for such purposes with the State of California exception of legally acquired game animals, which may be butchered in an appropriate enclosure. C County of Shasta 7.04.110 Fowl and gnawing mammals. It is unlawful for any person to suffer or permit any chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, doves, squabs, or similar fowl I hereby certify that the Record Searchlight is a or any hares, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats, mice, or any other similar gnawing mammal, owned or con - newspaper of general circulation within the provisions trolled by him, to run at large or go upon the premises of any person in the City or to keep the same within forty feet of any of the Government Code of the State of California, dwelling house or structure used as a dwelling house, unless the house or structure is occupied by him; or to keep the same printed and published in the City of Redding, County within fifteen feet of any side and rear property lines, except where the rear of the property abuts on a public alley, in which of Shasta, State of California; that I am the principal case a distance of fifteen feet from side property lines shall be maintained, or to keep the same within fifty feet of any front clerk of the printer of said newspaper; that the notice property line. of which the annexed clipping is a true printed copy 7.04.120 Roosters and peafowl (peacocks). was published in said newspaper on the following It is unlawful for any person to keep any rooster over three months old within the City. it is unlawful for any person to keep dates, to wit; any peafowl (peacocks) or guinea fowl within the City. 7.04.130 Exotic birds - Within thirty-five feet of other residence. April 10, 1996 It is unlawful for any person to keep parakeets, parrots (includ- ing macaws, cockatiels, cockatoos, or other exotic birds) within thirty-five feet of any building used as a dwelling or residence by any person other than the owner or custodian of the birds. It is unlawful for any person to keep more than twenty-five par - I certify under penalty of perjury that the forgoing akeets in an outside open cage or enclosure. I Section the basis of the initial study prepared by the De- is true and correct, at Redding, California on the velopmen St Services Department, the City Council (t) finds that the amendment to Redding Municipal Code Title 7 entitled "Ani- ; mals" has no substantial impact upon the environment and an environmental impact report is not necessary, and (2) approves I the negative declaration with the following findings: The Project Plan, 10th day of April 1996. is compatible with the Redding General the surrounding land use and the Code of the City of Redding, California, and s will not significantly alter existing land form. E Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after the date _ of its adoption and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of 3 this ordinance and cause its publication according to law. I HEREBY CERTIFY that this ordinance was introduced and read is _ at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 19th day of )March, 1996; and was read and adopted at a regular meeting of by following the City Council on the 2nd day of April, 1996, the 1 vote: " Signature I!t AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: P. Anderson, R. Anderson, S` McGeorge, Murray and Kehoe 10 NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None _ ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None RECORD SEARCHLIGHT )! s/David A. Kehoe 1101 Twin View Blvd. Redding California 96003 / Redding, -- = DAVID A. KEHOE, Mayor ATTEST: �( _ s/Connie Strohmayer CONNIE STROHMAYER, City Clerk 0 FORM APPROVED N Wingate 0 ` E _ W. LEONARD WINGATE, City Attorney W. LEONARD April 10, 1996 4087057 APR 2 3 IQ-G� .s pUX DEP" .