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(3) The fenced open pasture which is at least one (1) acre has a means of preventing • the livestock or fowl from coming within twenty-five (25) feet of any property line that abuts an existing residence.; (4) A student residing in a residence within the City of San Marcos is enrolled in bona fide program such as 4H or FFA may keep a single livestock animal, during one school year, as part of a bona fide project related to their enrolment in the program. (b) The keeping or causing to be kept any livestock. chickens geese. ducks. guineas, pigeons, rabbits or any other such animals in those areas appropriately permitted by the zoning ordinances of the city in pens or enclosed areas in such a manner as to become offensive to other persons living nearby is hereby declared to be a nuisance. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person to park or leave standing any truck trailer, or other vehicle that has been used for the hauling of livestock animals or fowl in the city limits when notified by an Animal Control Officer that such vehicle is creating?a nuisance due to odors, gases or fumes. Upon such notification the owner, operator driver or other person responsible for such vehicle shall move such vehicle to a location outside of the city limits. (d) All manure and other excrement shall be disposed of in such a manner as to prevent it from becoming offensive to other persons living nearby. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport slop garbage or other refuse over any alley, street or highway within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of feeding hogs or swine within the city. • Section 4-37. Keeping of Hogs or Swine. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep any live hog within the city limits for a longer period than twenty-four (24) hours. This does not apply to miniature swine. (b) Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to animal shelters, veterinary establishments, government agencies exhibitions at the County facilities, or commercial animal establishments located on property zoned for those purposes Such establishments, however, must meet sanitation requirements and keep all animals securely caged or penned. Section 6.075. Estray. It shall be unlawful for any person firm or corporation to allow an estray(s) to be unattended upon any public street alley thoroughfare or upon the property of another in the corporate city limits of San Marcos The person firm or corporation having ownership or right to immediate control of such estray(s) shall have the burden to keep such estray(s) off the public streets, alleys, and thoroughfares or the property of another in the City. Section 6.076. Placement and Baiting of Animal Traps. • (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or place and bait or to pen-nit the placing or placing and baiting of any trap designed for trapping animals in any highway, street. alley or other public place within the corporate limits of the city unless specific permission by Animal