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Marietta City Council Committee Meetings Tonight
Tonight the Marietta City Council will hold committees tonight, and seek to keep exotic animals prohibited.

MARIETTA, OH — The Marietta City Council will be holding a number of committees this afternoon. The public is invited. Folks can attend on Zoom, or in person at the Armory on Front Street.
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Marietta City Council Committee Meetings
June 8, 2021
@ Armory + Zoom + Live
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Streets & Transportation (3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.)
- Update on 2021 Asphalt Resurfacing & ADA Curb Ramps
- State Route 7 Urban Paving Project – ODOT Preliminary Legislation
- Discuss Roy Friend at 826 St. Mary’s Avenue wanting to use downed utility poles as curbing to block vehicles from parking on his property
Lands, Buildings, Parks (3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
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- Discuss the purchase of 109 Muskingum Drive
- Discuss park bench donation (3rd & Warren)
- Discuss I77 Culvert Lining Project – ODOT requesting Temporary Easement
Employee Relations (4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.)
- Update on the FOP Contract negotiations
Planning, Zoning, Annexation & Housing (4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
- Discuss Permitting
Police & Fire (4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.)
- Discuss (Ordinance No. 107 20-21) MCO 506.01 Keeping Certain Animals Prohibited – Roosters
Here is the full ordinance.
Exhibit "A"
Ordinance 107 (20-21)
506.01
KEEPING CERTAIN ANIMALS PROHIBITED.
(a) No person shall own, keep, harbor, or otherwise have control of any of the following
enumerated animals at any premises, or on any property, public or private, within the corporate limits of the City, regardless of the size or location of the premises or
property. or the design thereof.
1. All crotalid, elapid and venomous colubroid snakes.
2. Apes: chimpanzees (Pan); gibbons (hylobates); gorillas (Gorilla); orangutans (Pongo);
and siamangs (Symphalangus);
3. Baboons (Papoi, Mandrillus);
4. Bears (Ursidae);
5. Bison (Bison);
6. Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus);
7. Crocodilians (Crocodilia) when seventy-two inches in length or more;
8. Constrictor snakes when fourteen feet in length or more;
9. Coyotes (Canis latrans);
10. Deer (Cervidae) includes all members of the deer family, for example, white-tailed deer,
elk, antelope and moose;
11. Elephants (Elephas and Loxodonta);
12. Foxes (Canis vulpes);
13. Roosters without anti-crowing devices, Game Cocks and other fighting birds;
14. Hippopotami (Hippopotamidae);
15. Hyenas (Hyaenidae);
16. Jaguars (Panthera onca);
17. Leopards (Panthera pardus);
18. Lions (Pantheraleo);
19. Lynxes (Lynx);
20. Monkeys: old world (Cercopithecidae);
21. Ostriches (Struthio);
22. Pumas (Felis concolor), also known as cougars, mountain lions and panthers;
23. Rhinoceroses (Rhinocero tidae);
24. Sharks (class Chondrichthyes)
25. Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia);
26. Tigers (Panthera tigris); or
27. Wolves (Canis lupus).
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