The third and final reading of the revised chicken ordinance failed to pass during Hampton city council’s meeting on Thursday evening.
The ordinance revisions included allowing chicken owners to sell their eggs and setting the maximum height for coops at six feet, along with striking the portion about written consent from councilors to have livestock within city limits.
The city council had been working on the revised ordinance since last September, with the first two readings passing.
However, two city councilors questioned the revised ordinance when a property owner asked if his special permission to have livestock on his land would transfer to his son, if he were to sell it to him, and he was told no.
Because of this, city councilors Jim Davies and Barry Lamos voted against the third reading of the revised ordinance. Councilors Jerre Grefe, Bill Holmstrom and Jeanne Fay voted for it, and councilor Kristin Roode was not in attendance at the meeting to vote, so the motion failed, as it required four affirmative votes.
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