Minutes 03/22/1960 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

1~ TUESDAY MARCH 22, 1960 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Vice-Mayor stone presiding in the abserne of Mayor Shultz, was held in the COUll:: il Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, March 22, 1960, at 6 :30 P. M., the following IOOmbers being present: Vice-Mayor and Cournilman E. E. Stone; and Councilmen Thomas J. Burch, Clarence D. Donavant, and J. Frank Wilson. -., / After the invocation, Council approved as read the minutes of its regular meeting held March 8, 1960. Council adopted, on third reading and as revised, the following ordinance amending Section 2-4 of Chapter 2, Part II, of the City Code, pertaining to the keeping of livestock and fowl within the City: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in reGular meeti.ng asseIl'bled this uventy-second day of March, 1960, that section 2-4 of Chapter 2 Part II of the C ode of the City of Martinsville be and is hereby amended to provide as follows: Sec. 2-4. Keeping livestock and fowl within the City.2 (a) It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain any hog, pig, goat or sheep within the corporate limits of this City. This section shall not prohibit the transportation of such animals through the City. Any person, firm or corporation now keeping such animals in violation of this provision shall have twelve months from March 22, 1960, to comply with the provisions hereof, after which time such person, firm or corporation so failing to comply with this provision shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter set forth. (b) Except as herein otherwise provided, it shall be unlavrful for any person to keep within the corporate limits of the City any horse, mule, cow, chicken, turkey, duck or other like animal classed as livestock or fowl except those confimd in an enclosed pen, cage or stable, not closer than a distance of two hundred feet to any dwelling or building occupied for business purposes, provided, further, that any person desiring to keep such animal or fowl within the corpore,te limits of the City must make application to the direc tor of public health for a perJ'11.i t accompanied by the vr.ritten permission of every adult person residing or doing business wi thin a dis tance of three hundred feet from where the pen, cage or stable is to be located, agreeing unanimously to the keeping of such animal or fowl.