Okaloosa County BOCC — August 19, 2014 — City of Pensacola Chickens, Fowl — reading text

City of Pensacola Sec. 4-2-2. Running at large declared unlawful. It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian of any horse, mule, cow, goat, sheep, hog, cattle or any other such animal or chicken, bird or fowl to permit it to run at large anywhere within the corporate limits of the city. Sec. 4-2-3. Poultry or fowl generally. It shall be unlawful to keep roosters within the corporate limits of the city or to keep more than eight (8) poultry or other fowl at a single residence. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any live poultry such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or guinea fowl within the corporate limits of the city without the provision of coops, pens or enclosures so constructed and maintained as to prevent access by predators. Free ranging of poultry or fowl is allowed as long as they are prevented from going upon the streets, parks or public places or upon the premises of others than the owner or custodian of the poultry or fowl. Sec. 4-2-4. Same—Required distance of enclosures from certain buildings and public parks. It shall be unlawful to keep, harbor or confine ducks, geese, chickens, guineas, peacocks or other fowl in any pen, coop or enclosure in the city, any part of which is within thirty (30) feet of an adjacent dwelling, church, hospital, school, public building or public park. Sec. 4-2-5. Same—Keeping for sale. All live poultry, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or guinea fowl, which are kept for purposes of sale within the corporate limits of the city, shall be placed and kept in coops or pens which shall be erected so that the bottom of the coops or pens shall be at least eighteen (18) inches from the ground. The floors of the coops or pens shall be so constructed so as to permit the droppings from the poultry to fall into a removable box placed underneath the coops or pens. Each of the coops or pens shall be equipped with a water trough and feed box attached to the outside of the coops or pens in such manner at to prevent contamination of same. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep live poultry within the city for the purposes of sale or breeding, except in compliance with zoning regulations.