STANTON

The City Council recently repealed a clause in a 1972 ordinance that allowed residents to keep farm animals--including chickens, pigs and cows. Under the ordinance’s “grandfather clause,” residents could keep the animals for up to two years. The provision was readopted in 1997, but City Atty. Thomas Allen said the city simply overlooked the clause at the time. Allen said the provision needed to be addressed to eliminate any possible defense to an animal control citation.