What does this mean?

ChickForLife

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Does this mean that the maximum chickens I can have is 50 if I have 1 acre or more?

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Do you have more than just this chart?

I'm reading it has 50, plus 10 more per 0.2 acre of land. Like my ordinance is 3 up to 1/2 acre, then after that 1 chicken per sq ft of housing (so on an acre you could have thousands, basically). But I could be reading it wrong. It'd be 50 at the very least from how this is worded.
 
Forget the chart. What does the statute say???

NEVER EVER EVER read a Statute out of context, or worse, read only part of a Statute. About the only greater mistake you can make is using a modern dictionary definition to interpret a word in isolation, written at some point in the distant past. (With apologies to the current Supreme Court who is not Last because they are Right, but Right because they are Last).

Lewis Carrol's Humpty Dumpty offered instruction on statutory interpretation we should make every effort to avoid.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
 

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