Rolling Hills Municipal Code Ch. 6.32 Animal Facilities

For the purpose of Sections 6.32.020 and 6.32.030, a "dwelling house" is defined to be a building or structure designed and used to house one family and the domestic employees of such family.

(Ord. 136 § 803, 1976).

It is a nuisance to, and no person shall keep, chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pheasants, doves, pigeons, squab or similar fowl or rabbits owned or controlled by him within fifty feet of any street line or within twenty-five feet of any property line or within one hundred feet of any dwelling house or structure used as a dwelling house, other than a dwelling house or structure occupied by said person.

(Ord. 136 § 801, 1976).

It is a nuisance to, and no person shall, stable or corral any horse, donkey or mule within thirty-five feet of any building or structure used as a dwelling house.

(Ord. 136 § 802, 1976).

It is unlawful to keep in the City any stallion or jack except in an area enclosed by a fence located not less than ten feet from any road, drive or bridle trail. Such enclosure shall be constructed in a good, solid substantial manner for the purpose of confining such stallion or jack. A good, solid, substantial fence, within the meaning of this section, shall have six wood stringers, the dimensions of which shall not be less than two inches by six inches securely bolted to wood posts five inches by six inches or four inches by six inches firmly set at least three feet in the ground and not more than eight feet apart. One of the stringers shall be sixteen inches above the surface of the ground and the remaining stringers shall be placed at sixteen-inch intervals above the bottom stringer. The top stringer shall be not less than eight feet above the surface of the ground on that portion of the enclosure which is adjacent to or adjoining such road, driveway or bridle trail.

(Ord. 180 § 1, 1980: Ord. 136 § 804, 1976).

It is a nuisance to, and no person shall, keep or maintain any goat within fifty feet of any dwelling house other than that occupied by said person; or more than two goats within one hundred feet of any dwelling house other than that occupied by said person; or more than four goats within three hundred feet of any dwelling house other than that occupied by said person; or more than five goats within one thousand feet of any dwelling house other than that occupied by said person.

(Ord. 136 § 805, 1976).

No person shall keep or maintain or suffer to permit to be kept or maintained upon the premises owned or controlled by said person in the City any hive of bees within one hundred feet of any bridle trail, road, dwelling house or structure.

(Ord. 136 § 806, 1976).

It is a nuisance to, and no person shall, keep or maintain in the City cows or cattle at or upon premises owned, occupied or controlled by said person within three hundred feet of any dwelling other than that occupied by him; or keep or maintain any cattle within three hundred feet of any school or within one hundred feet of any street line.

(Ord. 136 § 807, 1976).