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Centerfield City Zoning Code

10.100 Farm

Animals

10.100.010 Purpose

It is the purpose and intention of the City Council to provide certain regulations, restrictions, prohibitions and penalties incident thereto with regard to the keeping, allowing or maintaining of animals within the corporate limits of City.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.020 Definitions

The following words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

ANIMAL UNIT:

An animal unit is defined as follows:

1 horse (1 mare and colt until yearling)

1 cow, steer or heifer (1 cow and calf until weaned)

5 sheep (5 ewes and lambs until weaned) 5 goats (5 goats and kids until weaned)

25 caged animals (such as chickens, ducks, geese, etc.)

Caged animals implies the exclusion of the above mentioned livestock and/or other large animals. Animals excluded from the City are pigs and animals produced as furbearing animals, such as mink. Exotic animals such as wolves, domesticated deer, ostrich, emu, buffalo, llamas and like animals are excluded from the City.

WILD ANIMAL:

All animals commonly accepted as being "wild" and includes, but is not limited to, the following, no matter how domesticated they may be:

Alligators and crocodiles

Bears (ursidae)

Cat family (felidae), except the commonly accepted domesticated cats

Coyotes, foxes and wolves

Nonhuman primates (hominidae)

Porcupines (erchthizontiade)

Raccoon (procyonidae)

Skunks

Venomous snakes or venomous lizards

Weasels (mustchdae), including martens, wolverines, black footed ferrets, badgers, otters, ermine, mink, mongoose, etc. For purposes of this section, animals that are kept commercially or ranched shall not be wild animals.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended by Ord. 2005-6 on 12/1/2005

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.030 Animal Management Area

An animal management area is an area used for enclosure and management of large animals, including such areas as corrals, pens, exercise areas, pastures, feed storage areas, barns, stables, coops, sheds, hutches or similar buildings used for housing or confinement of animals, as defined in this Chapter.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.040 Location Requirements

  1. Animal Management Area Required: Each lot or parcel upon which livestock or fowl are to be kept shall contain a designated "animal management area", as defined in section 10.100.030 of this Chapter.
  2. Distance To Dwelling: Each animal management area for the enclosure of livestock shall not be located closer than forty feet (40') of a neighboring dwelling.
  3. Size Of Parcel: Animal management areas shall not be located on any lot or parcel of ground less than one-fourth (1/4) acre. Each animal unit shall require one-fourth (1/4) acre. Each one-fourth (1/4) acre parcel shall have contiguous borders for more than one animal unit.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended by Ord. 2005-6 on 12/1/2005

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.050 Public Nuisance Declaration

  1. Authorized: One or more City residents may petition the City Council to have an animal management area declared as a public nuisance.
  2. Consideration; Warning; Declaration: The City Council will consider each petition at the closest council meeting to the date of the petition. The City Council will make an inspection of the animal management area in question. If the management area is declared a public nuisance, the City Council will issue a warning to the owner of the management area that is considered a public nuisance, outlining the nuisance and what shall be done to correct it. If the public nuisance is not corrected within a two (2) week period after notification, the owner of the management area declared a public nuisance will be subject to fines as established until the nuisance is corrected.
  3. Violation: This violation will be considered a Class C misdemeanor, subject to the following fines:
  4. Lack of correcting the nuisance after the two (2) week notification period: fifty percent (50%) of the legal fine limit per day each day after the two (2) week notification period that the nuisance is not corrected.
  5. Second offense on the same management area: seventy five percent (75%) of the legal fine limit, plus fifty percent (50%) per day each day after the two (2) week notification period that the nuisance is not corrected.
  6. Third offense on the same management area: one hundred percent (100%) of the legal fine limit and the loss of the use of the animal management area to house and maintain animals.
  7. Specific Acts Considered Nuisance: A public nuisance may be considered to be an act that endangers the health and welfare of any person or neighbor or animals within six hundred feet (600') of the existing animal management area. Specific acts are considered to be:
  8. Lack of cleanliness of animal management area and location of manure piles in relation to residential facilities.
  9. Animals that are considered to endanger any person or neighbor by its acts.
  10. The lack of maintenance of the animal management area in such a manner that allows animals to trespass on neighboring or city property, or produce offensive smells that restrict use of neighboring property.
  11. Animals that are not properly cared for, diseased or pose a threat to other animals or persons.
  12. Overcrowding of animal management areas.
  13. Management areas not in conformance with any provision stated in this chapter may be declared a public nuisance.

HISTORY

Amended by Ord. 2004 on 1/1/2004

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.060 Excessive Noise

It is unlawful to harbor or keep any animal which disturbs the peace by loud noises at any time of the day or night. It shall not be a violation of this section if the excessive noise is caused due to a person trespassing or threatening to trespass upon private property in or upon which the animal is situated.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

10.100.070 Animals Running At Large

It shall be unlawful for the owner or custodian to allow any animal to be at large at any time within the City.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.080 Keeping Certain Animals Unlawful

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or harbor any "wild animal" or "exotic animal" within the City limits or which are prohibited to be kept or harbored by Utah Code Annotated sections 23-13-4, 23-20-3 or 23-20-4.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023

10.100.090 Entrance Authority; Impoundment

  1. In enforcement of this Chapter, any animal control officer or peace officer may enter into the open premises of any animal which is reasonably deemed by the officer to be in violation of this Chapter.
  2. Representatives of the police department, the animal control officer or any other designated representative of the City may enter any premises where animals are maintained for investigation or inspection, with the permission of the owner or a duly executed warrant in order to determine if the premises is being used, kept or maintained in violation of this or any other City or County ordinance. This section does not permit any person to enter a private dwelling except where necessary to rescue an animal or pursuant to the execution of a search warrant.
  3. If an animal is summarily impounded without the knowledge of the owner or custodian, a notice that the animal has been impounded shall be given to the owner or custodian of the animal, if the same is known, by attaching the notice to the door at the residence thereof, or by mailing a notice to the last known address of the owner or custodian.
  4. If no response is received to the notice of summary impoundment within the time frames established by the rules and regulations of the animal shelter, such animal shall be euthanized as an abandoned animal.

HISTORY

Adopted by Ord. 2004-3 on 6/17/2004

Amended 12/28/2023