A. It is unlawful for any owner to keep or maintain pigeons within the city limits unless the same are housed and confined in such a manner as to prevent their escape at any time from confinement.

B. It is not unlawful for any member of a recognized national pigeon association which supplies pigeons to the United States Armed Forces in times of emergency to keep, house, and allow to fly for exercise within the corporate limits of the city racing, carrier, or homing pigeons which are suitable and of the type used as messengers in time of war and in civil defense and which are banded with numbered leg bands showing the same to be registered with such associations; provided, that such pigeons are not kept so as to constitute a nuisance or create a hazard to public health.

C. Any owner violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $250.00. [Ord. 10468 § 2, 1993].