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<br />1~ <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />FEBRUARY 9. 1960 <br /> <br />Part II, of the City Code, pertaining to "Animals and Fowl": <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br />in regular meeting assembled this 9th day of February, 1960, that <br />Section 2-4 of Chapter 2 Part II of the Code of the City of Martinsville <br />be and is hereby amended to provide as follows: <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />Sec. 2-4. Keeping livestock and fowl within the City. <br /> <br />(a) It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain any <br />hog, goat or sheep within the corporate limits of this City. <br />This section shall not prohibit the transportation of such <br />animals through the City. <br /> <br />Any person, firm or corporation now keeping such <br />animals in violation of this provision shall have twelve <br />months from February 9, 1960, to comply with the provisions <br />hereof, after which time such person, firm or corporation <br />so failing to comply with this provision shall be subject <br />to the penalties hereinafter set forth. <br /> <br />(b) Except as herein otherwise provided, it <br />shall be unlawful for any person to keep within the corporate <br />limits of the City any horse, mule, cow, chicken, turkey, <br />duck or other like animal classes as livestock or fowl ex- <br />cept those confined in an enclosed lot, pen, cage or stable, <br />not closer than a distance of two hundred feet to any buDding <br />or dwelling, provided, further, that any person desiring <br />to keep such animal or fowl wi thin the corporate limits of <br />the City must make application to the director of public <br />health for a permit accompanied by the written permission <br />of every adult person residing or doing business within a <br />distance of three hundred feet from where the lot, pen, cage <br />or stable is to be located, agreeing unanimously to the <br />keeping of such animal or fowl. <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />Any enclosure in which such animals are kept and <br />rnaintained pursuant to such permit shall be kept in a clean <br />and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the director <br />of public health. Manure in which flies breed or are likely <br />to breed is hereby declared to be a nuisance and detrimental <br />to public health. The natural presence of fly larvae in <br />manure shall be evidence that flies are breeding there. <br /> <br />Any person, firm or corporation now keeping any <br />horse, mule, cow, chicken, turkey, duck or other animal or <br />fowl in violation of the provisions of this Section shall <br />be allowed to continue to keep such animal or fowl, so long <br />as the keeping is otherwise lawful, subject to the following <br />provisions: <br />