Henrico County Code Article V regulates swine: no hog pen may sit within 400 feet of any lot in a residential district, and no more than 20 hogs may be kept in a pen at one time. Other livestock keeping is governed by the County Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 24).
Chapter 5, Article V (Swine) is the county's specific livestock rule. Sec. 5-224 bars a hog pen within 400 feet of any residential-district lot, or within 200 feet of another lot with a dwelling, school, church or care institution. Sec. 5-227 caps a pen at 20 hogs at one time (except brief feeding periods), and Secs. 5-225 to 5-228 require clean pens, odor and fly control, and covered food containers. A 'hog' is any pig over ten weeks and a 'pen' is an enclosure of an acre or less. Cattle, horses, goats and sheep ('Livestock' under Sec. 5-1) are otherwise governed by the district-based Zoning Ordinance (Chapter 24), which ties keeping to lot size and zoning.
Swine violations under Article V are enforced by the county; nuisance odor, flies and sanitation are separately abatable. Livestock kept contrary to the Zoning Ordinance is enforced by Community Revitalization.
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