Looking for permit cost feedback

[Ol Grey Mare]

3 or fewer birds require no permit. More than three requires an exception which falls under the "animal facility license" through the city. The fee is $40/2 years.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I guess I don't get the issue with permit fees since at least it means you can have chickens - think of all the areas where you can't, at all (the 30 dozen egg tax is a little goofy though... you'd think they'd just charge the amount they want in the fees upfront). I don't have any fees for livestock or poultry but its $30 annually to license 1 dog. I don't think most people have issue with dog and cat licensing fees do they?

X2....I, personally, had no issue applying and paying for my permit....I was grateful an option was offered to allow me to exceed the three bird limit set by the local ordinance.
I licences my dog...cats are not required to be licensed here...no issue with that either.

 

[Peppercorngal]

I guess I don't get the issue with permit fees since at least it means you can have chickens - think of all the areas where you can't, at all (the 30 dozen egg tax is a little goofy though... you'd think they'd just charge the amount they want in the fees upfront). I don't have any fees for livestock or poultry but its $30 annually to license 1 dog. I don't think most people have issue with dog and cat licensing fees do they?

The "30 dozen egg tax" is for selling eggs, not a fee for having chickens. I just want that to be clear.

 

[rosemarythyme]

The "30 dozen egg tax" is for selling eggs, not a fee for having chickens. I just want that to be clear.

I got that, it's just funny to me that 30 dozen is a magic number. If they just want another source of tax, I would think it far simpler to have a flat "egg seller" fee and leave it at that.

Here you only have to license a dog (never a cat) in the city limits, which I am not. I have 4 dogs! Why pay a fee to have an animal that takes and never gives, except for love?

I pay the license fee for my dogs because I know it pays for county animal services, and if my dogs happen to get lost but are licensed, I'll have less issue getting them back than if they are unlicensed. That's never been an issue before but doesn't mean it can't happen someday.

 

[Peppercorngal]

I got that, it's just funny to me that 30 dozen is a magic number. If they just want another source of tax, I would think it far simpler to have a flat "egg seller" fee and leave it at that.

I agree that the "30 dozen" is an odd number, and the tax is 15 Cents each 30 dozen. I sold 460 dozen last year, my tax would have been $2.26!! Very strange. Leave it to California to think something like this up.

I pay the license fee for my dogs because I know it pays for county animal services, and if my dogs happen to get lost but are licensed, I'll have less issue getting them back than if they are unlicensed. That's never been an issue before but doesn't mean it can't happen someday.

I understand about the license fee and "getting your dog(s) back if lost. All my dogs have tags with name, phone, and (for one of them) special needs. They are all microchipped and, in theory, you can be found by that, and your dog returned. I found out that there are hundreds of companies that sell and register microchips and that it's not a guarantee. I'm not in love with our shelters as they kill animals that don't get adopted. I worked at a shelter and it broke my heart to see dead dogs (some of my favorites) just because the two weeks was up and they didn't get adopted. So sad.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I microchip as well, but if a lost dog is turned in to the county shelter system and wasn't licensed, you have to pay a fine (and pay to get a license) to get it back. So I'm just trying to avoid that, just in case.

Back to chickens, there was a story on here not too long ago of someone losing ownership of a runaway chicken because they didn't pay for the permit for their chickens. If they had, they would've probably gotten the chicken back.

 

[cjoffutt]

Makes me glad I live in rural Indiana. No fees for anything. Want to have dogs, go have dogs, want to have cats, go have cats, want chickens, go get some.

They attempted the cat & dog tax when I was younger (20 years ago or so), it failed miserably. Rather hard to enforce a stupid tax when you cannot force residents to prove 'ownership' over stray animals.

 

[Scorpy89]

East Alabama, no permits in most areas. Laws only state that animals have to be "contained" and kept in sanitary conditions with regards to polite practice with your neighbor in close/small lots. i.e. no smells or loud noises.

 

[child_of_air]

In my county of San Bernardino (CA) it's based on square feet of plot sizes- I'm allowed to have four hens. But you have to have an acre to have a rooster and two acres to have horses or other animals. We are closing escrow on my house soon and there was a section in the escrow of "Right to Farm", which I thought was interesting.