File #: O-8-15    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 2/13/2015 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/23/2015 Final action: 3/23/2015
Title: Keeping or Maintaining Chickens Within the City of Annapolis - For the purpose of eliminating the sunset provision set forth in Ordinance 53-11 Amended pertaining to keeping or maintaining chickens within the City of Annapolis.
Sponsors: Jared Littmann, Ian Pfeiffer
Indexes: Economic Matters Committee, Housing and Human Welfare Committee, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. O-8-15 Chickens.pdf, 2. O-8-15 Staff Report.pdf, 3. O-8-15 Fiscal Impact.pdf, 4. O-8-15 Rules Amendment.pdf, 5. O-8-15 Georgetown Elementary Favorable Testimony, 6. O-8-15 Germantown Elementary Unfavorable Testimony, 7. O-8-15 GE Supplemental Testimony For Chickens, 8. O-8-15 GE Supplemental Testimony Against Chickens.pdf, 9. O-8-15 Littmann Amendment.pdf, 10. O-8-15 Signed.pdf
Title
Keeping or Maintaining Chickens Within the City of Annapolis - For the purpose of eliminating the sunset provision set forth in Ordinance 53-11 Amended pertaining to keeping or maintaining chickens within the City of Annapolis.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance No. O-8-15

Introduced by: Alderman Littmann, Alderman Pfeiffer

Referred to
Economic Matters
Housing and Human Welfare

A ORDINANCE concerning

Keeping or Maintaining Chickens Within the City of Annapolis

FOR the purpose of eliminating the sunset provision set forth in Ordinance 53-11 Amended pertaining to keeping or maintaining chickens within the City of Annapolis.

BY repealing the uncodified sunset provision set forth in Section II of Ordinance 53-11 Amended concerning Section 8.04.010 of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2013 Edition.

WHEREAS, the Annapolis City Council adopted Ordinance 53-11 Amended on April 9, 2012; and

WHEREAS, Section II of Ordinance 53-11 Amended included an expiration (or "sunset") provision that would cause the Ordinance to expire on April 9, 2015 and would cause all permits and approvals granted pursuant to that Ordinance to expire unless the City Council took further action to prevent the abrogation of Ordinance 53-11 Amended; and

WHEREAS, the Annapolis City Council seeks to eliminate the uncodified sunset provision of Section II of Ordinance 53-11 Amended; and

WHEREAS, the Annapolis City Council desires to make permanent all other provisions of Ordinance 53-11 Amended in the interests of those citizens who keep or maintain chickens within the City of Annapolis.

SECTION I: BE IT ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the uncodified sunset provision set forth in Section II of Ordinance 53-11 Amended is hereby repealed and of no further effect:

SECTION II: AND BE IT FURTHER ESTABLISHED AND ORDAINED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that this Ordinance shall take effect from the date of i...

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