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CITY OF ST. CATHARINES
BY-LAW NO.
89-3
A By-law to regulate the keeping of pigeons.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF ST. CATHARINE$ enacts as
follows:
1.
No person shall keep any pigeons within the City of St.
Catharines unless the same are enclosed in suitable coops, pens, runs or
lofts except as otherwise provided for in this by-law.
2.
No person shall keep or allow to be kept in a coop, pen, run
or loft, a greater number of pigeons that one pigeon per two square feet
of floor space.
3.
No building or structure used or intended to be used as a
coop, pen, run or loft for pigeons shall be deemed to be suitable unless
the following conditions are complied with:
(a)
Each such building or structure shall be distant at least the
required setback as provided for in the applicable Zoning
By-law.
(b)
The inside walls and ceiling of all such coops, pens or lofts .
shall be kept in a clean condition.
(c)
All runs and outside areas of confinement shall be dug in such
a manner and as sufficiently and frequently as to prevent
odours arising therefrom.
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(d)
All refuse resulting from the keeping of the said pigeons
shall be kept in substantially airtight containers until it is
removed from the premises or is dug into the earth in such a
manner as to prevent odours arising therefrom.
4.
(a)
A person keeping pigeons shall allow the pigeons a controlled
period of exercise two times a day for a maximum of two hours per exercise
period.
(b)
Any person keeping pigeons sha11 not permit his pigeons to
roost on other persons property without that property owner-s permission.
5.
Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of
this By-law shall forfeit and pay at the discretion of the convicting
Magistrate a penalty of not more than $2,000.00 exclusive of costs.
Read a first and second time this
4\h
day of uANUAR."r
1988.
Read a third time and passed this 41h
day of WA~uARY
1988.
CLERK