Sections:
6.08.01 Horses and cows
6.08.02 Hogs, goats, and sheep
6.08.03 Diseased animals
6.08.04 Releasing animals
6.08.05 Fowl
6.08.06 Cruelty to animals
6.08.07 Penalty
6.08.08 Livestock
6.08.01 Horses and cows
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or permit to run at large within the corporate limits of the city, any cows and/or horses except as provided in this chapter. The violation of this section is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. It shall be the duty of the proper law enforcement official to
enforce the provisions hereof.
B. The keeping of horses or cows within the corporate limits of the city is permitted where they are maintained on an enclosed pasture containing one acre for each animal.
C. The keeping of horses and cows in enclosures as herein provided within the limits of the city shall be under the supervision and control of the proper law enforcement official. Should any of the enclosures become harbors for breeding flies, mosquitoes and rats, or should they become unsanitary, obnoxious,
unhealthful and/or discomforting to any of the citizens of the city because of conditions created by keeping of said animals, the proper law enforcement official, upon investigating and finding any such conditions to exist, shall serve written notice on the owners or keepers of the premises as to the conditions thereof by delivering a copy of the notice to the owner or keeper, or by posting same in a conspicuous place on the premises, and if within five (5) days after service of notice said owner or keeper has not corrected the conditions, the City Attorney is authorized to institute an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to abate same as a nuisance.
6.08.02 Hogs. goats and sheep. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any hogs, goats or sheep within the city or to permit any such animals to run at large within the city, except when in transit, they may be kept for a period not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours in an established stockyard.
STATE LAW REFERENCE – See A.C.A. 14-54-1101
6.08.03 Diseased animals. No person shall be allowed to transport into this city any animal affected with a contagious disease.
6.08.04 Releasing animals. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly release any animal in any public place within the corporate limits of the city.
6.08.05 Fowl. It shall be unlawful for any person owning or having control of any chickens, turkeys or other fowl to allow the same to run at large within the city.
6.08.06 Cruelty to animals. If any person shall drive, overload, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance or cruelly beat or needlessly mutilate or kill any animal, he shall by guilty of a misdemeanor.
6.08.07 Penalty. any person violating any provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a reasonable fine of not less than and not more than____ * and if such violation be a continuing one, each day’s violation shall be deemed a separate offense.
Note: typically, $5.00 to $100.00.
6.08.08 Livestock. That Title 6 of the Mayflower Municipal Code be amended to allow the Mayflower School District to keep livestock for the betterment of education at the high school. (Ord. No. 2018-04, Sec. 1)
