Butler County has no countywide livestock ordinance. In unincorporated areas, township zoning (ORC Ch. 519) governs, but ORC 519.21 bars townships from prohibiting animal husbandry on parcels over five acres. Cities set their own limits.
Ohio does not zone at the county level, so keeping cattle, horses, goats, sheep, or swine in unincorporated Butler County is governed by your township's zoning resolution under ORC Ch. 519. ORC 519.21 protects agriculture, including animal husbandry: townships cannot prohibit it on lots over five acres, and may regulate it on one-to-five-acre lots only within qualifying platted subdivisions. Inside cities such as Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, Oxford, and Monroe, the municipal zoning code controls and usually restricts livestock in residential districts. The Butler County General Health District regulates related sanitation such as septic and manure runoff.
Handled as a township or city zoning violation with local abatement notices and fines; the county enforces only health-related nuisances (e.g., sewage or water contamination) through the General Health District.
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