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(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 />(1) Manure shall be handled or treated in such a manner as not to create a public nuisance which shall <br />mean at a minimum that manure will be properly disposed of weekly when the number of horses <br />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 />(g) 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, fiini 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 agent <br />shall, within 24 hours after any such horse has been impounded, post written notice at the city <br />hall describing such horse and stating that it has been impounded. If the owner of the impounded <br />horse is known to the person impounding, personal service of notice of such impounding shall be <br />served within 24 hours after impounding upon such owner in the manner prescribed by state law <br />for the service or process. <br />(3) <br />(f) <br />Page 7 <br />