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it vi ORDINANCE NO. 179 A COMPREHENSIVE ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS ESTABLISHING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE KEEPING OF HORSES: PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR ANIMAL MAINTENANCE, CORRALS, PASTURES, ETC., AND FOR THE GENERAL MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL AND RIDING STABLES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE TOM; OF LOS ALTOS HILLS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Purpose. The Ordinance is adopted to establish requirements for the keeping of horses and maintenance thereof in order to protect the public health, safety, welfare, comfort and convenience while permitting residents to keep horses under appropriate and suitable conditions and further to establish conditions and requirements for the operation of commercial stables. This Ordinance is intended to provide rules for correcting unhealthy or unsafe conditions. SECTION 2. Definitions. For the purpose of this Ordinance, salient words and phrases and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have a different meaning. Agriculture. Includes animal husbandry, livestock farming, flower growing, crop and tree farming and viticulture. Corral. A fenced area for the concentration of livestock. Any fenced area of less than one acre shall be deemed a corral. Foal. Young of a horse, donkey or mule, up to age eighteen (18) months. Horse. A large, solid -hoofed herbivorous quadruped of the family Equidae, including donkey, mule, pony, etc. Pasture. A plot of ground other than a corral with grass or other planta available for grazing livestock. Horse Stable. A roofed structure or portion thereof designed or used for housing or feeding of horses. Horses - Maintenance for Private Use. The keeping of horses for private use as an accessory use to a residence on the same parcel, or on a vacant parcel of land, but not primarly for remuneration or sale. Commercial Stable. Any establishment regularly providing services for the keeping and/or use of horses, other than for private use, as regulated under Section 5 of this Ordinance, including but not limited to boarding stables, riding schools, and stables and corrals to accommodate horses belonging to clubs or organizations or members thereof.