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ORDINANCE NO.')_ 4 1 A <br /> ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE <br /> - CHAPTER 47 - <br /> -CONTROL OF ANIMALS.FOWL AND DOGS— <br /> BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, <br /> ILLINOIS: <br /> Section 1. That Chapter 47 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the <br /> same is hereby modified and amended by amending and adding language to Section 3. Said <br /> Section 3 as so modified, amended and added, shall provide as follows: <br /> 3. FARM ANIMALS PERMITTED. No person, firm or corporation shall keep <br /> any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats or any other type of animal typically found on a farm at <br /> any place upon any premises within the City except temporarily in stock yards for sale or <br /> shipment and except temporarily in packing plants for slaughter, and except as to property <br /> not previously within the corporate limits of the City upon which such animal or animals <br /> had been so kept,harbored or maintained for three months or more prior to the annexation <br /> of said property to the City, in which event said animal or animals may remain upon such <br /> annexed property unless or until the ownership of said property transfers to <br /> another. Educational institutions may keep cattle, sheep, goats, llamas and alpacas upon <br /> premises owned by the educational institution as may properties zoned in an Agriculture <br /> District. The minimum lot area for keeping a full-sized horse or animal of the equine <br /> family is one(1)acre for one equine and one(1)additional acre for each additional equine <br /> and in no case shall an equine be kept unless one (1) twelve foot by twelve foot stall <br /> enclosed with three (3) solid walls is provided for sheltering each equine kept on such lot. <br /> The minimum lot area for educational institutions keeping a miniature horse,pony or other <br /> small animal of the equine family, llamas, alpacas and cattle is one-half(1/2) acre for one <br /> animal and one-half(1/2) additional acre for each additional animal and in no case shall <br /> such animal be kept unless one (1) eight foot by eight foot stall enclosed with three (3) <br /> solid walls is provided for sheltering each animal kept on such lot. The minimum lot area <br /> for properties zoned in an Agriculture District keeping a miniature horse, pony or other <br /> small animal of the equine family, llamas, alpacas and cattle is one (1) acre for one animal <br /> and one (1) additional acre for each additional animal and in no case shall such animal be <br /> kept unless one (1) eight foot by eight foot stall enclosed with three (3) solid walls is <br /> provided for sheltering each animal kept on such lot.The minimum lot area for educational <br /> institutions keeping sheep and goats is one-quarter (1/4) acre per animal and one-quarter <br /> (1/4) additional acre for each additional animal and in no case shall such animal be kept <br /> unless one (1) eight foot by eight foot stall enclosed with (3) solid walls is provided for <br /> sheltering no more than (3) such animals kept on such lot. The minimum lot area for <br /> properties zoned in an Agriculture District keeping sheep and goats is one-half(1/2) acre <br /> per animal and one-half(1/2)additional acre for each additional animal and in no case shall <br /> such animal be kept unless one (1) eight foot by eight foot stall enclosed with (3) solid <br /> walls is provided for sheltering no more than five (5) such animals kept on such lot. Lots <br />