[Adopted 10-20-1958 by Ord. No. 693]
No person shall keep pigeons or rabbits or permit pigeons or rabbits to be kept for business or other purposes or uses on any premises within the city unless a license for that purpose shall first have been secured from the Department of Health.
Before such license is granted, the applicant shall submit to the Health Department an application therefor, in writing, setting forth thereon, in addition to the information required by § 107-6B of Chapter 107, Licenses and Permits, the description of the premises intended to be so used, the character of the building wherein the business is contemplated to be conducted, and also a description of all buildings, if any, located contiguous to the applicant's premises to be so used.
A license may be denied if the application therefor or an independent investigation reveals that the premises or the intended use thereof:
A. 
Is located within a residential district or located within a residential zone, as the same appears on the Zoning Map of the City[1]; or
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 175, Zoning.
B. 
Is within 400 feet of any church, library, hospital, sanatorium or other public building, as measured from the nearest boundary line of the premises intended to be so used; or
C. 
Is detrimental to the health of the surrounding neighbors; or
D. 
Does not strictly comply with all the requirements of applicable ordinances and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health; or
E. 
Will tend to create a nuisance.
It shall be unlawful to feed pigeons or rabbits in or at public parks or places.