Legal Opinion
People v. Miller
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 23, 1952PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuld, J.
Defendant keeps pigeons as a hobby, and since 1945 has harbored them on his property, located in a residential area of the Town of North Hempstead. In 1947, the town’s Building-Zone Ordinance was amended to outlaw such a use of property in a residential, business or commercial zone: “ In any use district ”, Article XV, section 155.5, provides, “ no premises may be used or occupied and no structure may be erected or *107maintained for the harboring of pigeons, swine, goats, rabbits or foxes, minks, skunks or other similar furbearing animals, except,when authorized by the Board of Appeals ” under…
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