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Less than 1.5 acres 0 Not permitted. <br />1.5 - 3.0 acres 2 Sketch drawing required in property file. <br />Over 3 acres 2+ One additional horse for each full acre over 3 acres. <br />(e) Sketch drawing required. <br />(1) Prior to maintaining and boarding a horse or horses on any parcel of land three acres or more in <br />size, the landowner shall provide a sketch drawing to the city. <br />(2) Required sketch drawing information shall include: <br />a. Name and address of the fee owner of the subject property where the horses are to be <br />maintained and the name and address of occupant of subject property. <br />b. Legal description of subject property. <br />c. Acreage of subject property and acreage of enclosed roaming area. <br />d. Number of horses to be maintained on subject property. <br />e. Sketch drawing showing, to scale: <br />1. Location of all buildings on subject property; <br />2. Fenced in horse pasture area; <br />3. Location and distance from subject property of all adjacent property's buildings; and <br />4. Area on subject property where manure will be stored if the number of horses exceeds <br />one horse per one-half acre of enclosed roaming area. <br />Rodent and insect control. <br />(f) <br />(g) <br />(1) Manure shall be handled or treated in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance which <br />shall mean at a minimum that manure will be properly disposed of weekly when the number of <br />horses on any one parcel exceeds one horse per one-half acre of enclosed roaming area. <br />(2) Corrals, pens, stables or similar enclosures shall be maintained in a manner to minimize fly <br />breeding. <br />(3) Accumulations of horse manure on the paved portion of a street, sidewalk or alley shall not be <br />permitted, and the horse owner shall be responsible to abate such nuisance. <br />Care and maintenance of horses. <br />(1) No horse shall be treated cruelly or inhumanely by any person or in violation of Minn. Stats. ch. <br />343, which provisions relate to preventing cruelty to animals. <br />(2) Proper care and maintenance of each horse shall be the responsibility of the person, firm or <br />corporation designated as the owner, caretaker or custodian of such horse. <br />(3) No person shall keep a horse in a manner creating a public or private nuisance. <br />(4) Horses shall be provided adequate shelter. <br />(5) Fences for pens, corrals or similar enclosures must be of sufficient height and strength to retain <br />the horses enclosed. Extra care must be taken to ensure the stallions are properly enclosed. <br />Page 6 <br />