Any person who keeps chickens in the City of Madison shall obtain an annual license prior to January 1 of
each year, or within 30 days of acquiring the chickens. The license year commences on January 1 and
ends on the following December 31.
Application shall be made to the City Treasurer and the fee for the license shall be six dollars ($6.00).
The Treasurer or other authorized individual shall collect the fee and shall assess and collect a late fee of five dollars ($5.00) from every owner of chickens, if the owner fails to obtain a license prior to April 1 of each year, or fails to obtain a license within 30 days of acquiring the chickens. All late fees received or collected shall be paid into the local Treasury.
(Cr. by Ord. 13,605, 5-21-04)
OMG! Madison sounds like an Orwellian Fascist Prison of Biblical proportions!
ReplyDeleteSeriously..that's still on the books?
If the late fee wasn't so prohibitive I would be tempted to give it a whirl.....
Yeah - on the books yet, can you believe this??
ReplyDeleteI read through a lot of the municipal code and I found some really bizarre shit!