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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2016 ORDINANCE NO. do i tip AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 8.04.090 TO ALLOW BEEKEEPING WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS RECITALS: A. The City Wide Strategic Plan recognizes the importance of agriculture to the City's economy both past and future. Maintaining opportunities for small scale agriculture is identified as a strategy for protecting agricultural land and managing growth. B. Small scale urban agriculture, including beekeeping, provides opportunities for residents to continue the tradition of producing locally grown food products while supporting the presence and health of local honeybee populations. C. It is the purpose and intent of this ordinance to provide for the safe and orderly keeping of bees in the City of Central Point by establishing certain minimum standards for the keeping of bees to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City of Central Point. D. Words lined-through in the following ordinance are to be deleted and words in bold are added. The people of the City of Central Point do ordain as follows: Section 1. Central Point Municipal Code Section 8.04.090 Keeping bee's shall be amended as follows: 8.04.090 Keeping bees. A. No person shall have, keep or maintain or permit to be kept or maintained upon land under his control, any hives, swarms or colonies of bees, except as permitted in accordance with the Bee Keeping requirements in Section 6.05.020. B. A violation of Section 6.05.020 is declared to be a public nuisance, and may be abated as provided for in this Chapter. The keeping cr.rr:c!r:tc'r:!rig of any hives, colonies or swarms of bees is declared to constitute 2 p::L!ic :,uisanee-and Ordinance Nor2©t10 (082715) SECTION 3. Codification. Provisions of this Ordinance shall be incorporated in the City Code and the word Ordinance may be changed to "code", "article", "section", "chapter", or other word, and the sections of this Ordinance may be renumbered, or re-lettered, provided however that any Whereas clauses and boilerplate provisions need not be codified and the City Recorder is authorized to correct any cross references and any typographical errors. SECTION 4. Effective Date. The Central Point City Charter states that an ordinance enacted by the council shall take effect on the thirtieth day after its enactment. The effective date of this ordinance will be the thirtieth day after the second reading. Passed by the Council and signed by me in authentication of its passage this .I p day of QzNeitAyoiv‘ , 2015. Mayor Hank Williams ATTEST: Ah /,i. 4,, ii . / City Recorder , I°DT& at