§ 10-6. City declared a bird sanctuary.

(a)

All territory embraced within the city is declared to be a bird sanctuary.

(b)

It shall be prohibited for any person to injure, kill, hunt, destroy, capture or molest, by any means whatsoever or in any manner or form, any bird within the city; provided, that the chief of police may issue a special permit therefor to persons holding a valid permit to destroy birds for scientific purposes issued by the state fish and game commission and by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.

(c)

No person shall, at any time, within the city, make use of any pitfall, deadfall, scaffold, cage, snare, trap, net, salt-lick, blind-pen, bait-hook, bait-field or any similar device or any drug, poison, chemical or explosive for the purpose of injuring, capturing or killing any game birds or wild birds.

(d)

No person within the city shall take or willfully destroy the nests or eggs of any game birds or wild birds or shall have nests or eggs of any game bird or wild bird in his possession.

(Code 1964, §§ 4-6.2—4-6.5)