{"id":160774,"date":"2023-06-16T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=160774"},"modified":"2023-06-16T14:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:12:30","slug":"council-adds-penalties-for-backyard-hen-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-adds-penalties-for-backyard-hen-offenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Council adds penalties for backyard hen offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council added overt penalties to the <em>Backyard Hen By-Law<\/em> on Tuesday after complaints were made recently about at-large chickens.<\/p>\n<p>The penalties include <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/9AAB26354E214267981DF8012A4E844A-Att%202%20-%20Bylaw%204519-2019%20Schedule%20_C_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial fines<\/a> of $100 for exceeding the allowable hen limit (with that number being six in settlement areas, and 10 in farm areas), and $300 for allowing hens to stray at-large.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/693B368D3B6B4C1EB1DEC92B66878DE6-Att%201%20-%20By%20Law%20Amendment.pdf\">by-law changes<\/a> allow for the county to take reoffending individuals to court, as a last resort, where they could be subject to initial <em>Provincial Offences Act<\/em> fines as high as $25,000, upon conviction.<\/p>\n<p>On that, Picton Coun. Kate MacNaughton voiced concern over subjecting individuals to that level of potential penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Ameliasburgh Coun. Roy Pennell, however, thought that the maximum fines were a suitable deterrent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council added overt penalties to the Backyard Hen By-Law on Tuesday after complaints were made recently about at-large chickens. The penalties include initial fines of $100 for exceeding the allowable hen limit (with that number being six in settlement areas, and 10 in farm areas), and $300 for allowing hens to stray&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":160783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[14496,27160,27161,27159,544,27163,14241,16733,27162,25919],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161113,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160774\/revisions\/161113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160774"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=160774"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=160774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}