Fort Lauderdale bars keeping any animal in residential districts except common household pets, and the pet exception expressly excludes chickens, roosters and geese. Roosters are barred within 100 yards of any dwelling and livestock is effectively prohibited outside the narrow nonresidential rules.
Sec. 6-5 makes it unlawful to keep any animal in a residential district except animals capable of being kept as pets within a home, a list that expressly excludes chickens, roosters and geese. Sec. 6-6 bars keeping any animal within 75 feet of an inhabited dwelling in nonresidential districts, with the same pet exclusion of chickens, roosters and geese. Sec. 6-8 separately forbids keeping any rooster closer than 100 yards from any inhabited dwelling other than the keeper's own. The cumulative effect is that backyard chickens, roosters, geese and traditional livestock are not permitted on ordinary residential lots in the city.
Code-enforcement citation for unlawful keeping of animals under Sec. 6-5, 6-6 or 6-8; abatement of the prohibited fowl or livestock.
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