Housing of Fowl Animal Ordinance

1. Animal Ordinance
Housing of Fowl
Billy Couch, Police Chief
May 13, 2021

2. Council recommendations
• Consider enclosure range of 50 feet from
neighboring residential structures
• Consider limitations on number of fowl
maintained in enclosure.

3. Keeping Fowl in Enclosures
• Any enclosure that houses fowl must be at
least 50 feet from any dwelling other than the
dwelling occupied by the owner of the fowl
– Any enclosure at 50 to 100 feet may house up to 6 fowl.
– Any enclosure greater than 100 feet may house up to 12
fowl.

4. Nuisance section added
• Nuisance. A person commits and offense and
it is declared a nuisance and may be enforced
5,000 feet outside the City limits, if a person
keeps foul in any way that creates odor,
unreasonable noise that would annoy or disturb
a person of ordinary sensibilities, attracts pests,
or endangers the health, safety, comfort or
repose of any person.