Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2011-6395

• Record #: O2011-6395
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 7/28/2011
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Health and Environmental Protection
• Final action: 5/20/2015
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 7-12 by adding new Section 385 to prohibit importation, sale, ownership, or possession of live chickens in residential districts within 18th Ward
• Sponsors: Lane, Lona
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 7 - Health & Safety - Ch. 12 Animal Care & Control
• Related files: R2015-407

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/20/2015		City Council	Failed to Pass	Fail
7/28/2011	5661	City Council	Referred

 

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL OF:

SECTION 1. Chapter 7-12 of the Municipal Code of the City of Chicago is hereby amended by adding a new Section 7-12-385 as follows:

7-12-385 Restrictions on chickens in the 18^th Ward.

(a) "Chicken" means any live bird of the Family Gallus (gallus domesticus).

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to import, sell, own, keep or otherwise possess any live chicken within any area designated as a residential district only in the 18^th Ward under the Chicago Zoning Ordinance. Nothing in this subsection prohibits any person from transporting live chickens through a residential district, if the chickens are caged during transport.

(c) Any person who is found in violation of this section shall be fined in accordance with the same provisions as that of Section 7-12-3 87(f) of the Municipal Code.

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and publication.

 

Alderman - 18^m Ward