HB 2325 Summary

• Prohibits municipalities and counties from banning residents of single-family detached homes on lots of one-half acre or less from keeping up to six domestic chickens in their backyards.

• Allows local governments to prohibit roosters and male fowl, and to require enclosures in rear or side yards at least 20 feet from neighboring property with maximum dimensions of 200 square feet and 8 feet in height.

• Permits local regulation requiring enclosure maintenance with manure removal twice weekly, insect prevention measures for compost, adequate water drainage, rodent-proof feed storage, and prohibition on fowl running at large.

• Requires enclosures in residential communities on lots under one acre to be shorter than the property fence line.

• Declares backyard fowl property rights a matter of statewide concern and preempts all conflicting local laws, ordinances, and charter provisions; does not apply retroactively to enclosures built before the bill's effective date.