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(f) <br />(g) <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 />(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 />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 />(3) <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 />(h) Control, trespass roadways and impoundment. <br />(1) No person shall permit any horse of which they are the owner, caretaker or custodian to run at <br />large within the city. Such animal will be deemed to run at large when it is off the premises owned <br />or rented by its owner and unaccompanied by the owner, or an agent or employee of the owner. <br />(2) The chief of police or any designated agent of the city may impound any horse found at large and <br />shall provide proper sustenance for such impounded horse. The chief of police or designated <br />agent shall, within 24 hours after any such horse has been impounded, post written notice at the <br />city hall describing such horse and stating that it has been impounded. If the owner of the <br />impounded horse is known to the person impounding, personal service of notice of such <br />impounding shall be served within 24 hours after impounding upon such owner in the manner <br />prescribed by state law for the service or process. <br />(3) Costs incurred by the city in impounding horses running at large shall be paid by the horse owner <br />prior to releasing the horse. An impounded horse shall be released only to a person providing <br />proof of ownership and displaying a receipt from the city administrator showing payment of the <br />reasonable costs of impounding, cost of feeding and veterinarian care. <br />(4) Any person who, without authority of law, and without first paying the costs due, shall take an <br />impounded horse out of the enclosure in which it is impounded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. <br />(5) In the event a horse impounded by the city is not redeemed within 14 days, after its impoundment, <br />the chief of police or designated agent shall give three days' notice of the time and place where <br />such horse will be sold by posting and serving notices as required for notice herein. If such horse <br />cannot be sold on the day stated, it may be sold as soon as possible thereafter without notice. <br />The city treasurer shall deposit said proceeds in the general fund. <br />(6) If the previous owner of the horse which was sold makes a claim for the sale proceeds within one <br />year from the sale date, the city finance officer, on order from the council, shall pay the previous <br />Page 7 <br />