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Council adopts ordinance allowing backyard hens with limits; roosters not grandfathered
Summary
Malden adopted a new ordinance adding section 6-14 to the animal control code permitting residents to keep live chickens under specified conditions. Council approved the measure on second reading after a brief debate about roosters, ducks and enforcement.
The Malden City Council voted to add section 6-14, allowing residents to keep live chickens under standards in the city’s animal-control ordinance.
On Aug. 18 the council adopted the ordinance on second reading after a motion to “adopt section 6-14, the keeping of live chickens to chapter 6, animals of the Malden code of ordinance as written and…
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