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8.04.020 ANIMALS AND FOWL PROHIBITED.

No person in the City shall keep or permit to be kept on premises owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her any swine, cows, bulls, calves, sheep, goats, horses, mules, jacks, jennies, peafowl, roosters over four months, or other animals which are exotic or wild, except nonpoisonous reptiles. With a special permit approval from the board of zoning adjustments, the above animals may be kept in an A zone two hundred feet from any property line.