1. Enclosure: a pen, cage, stable, stable, aviary, shed or any other fully enclosed structure or area where pigeons are kept or housed and confined. 4. The person feeds and waters the pigeons within the boundaries of the pen and does not provide food or water to the pigeons outside the pen. You can report people catching pigeons on private, commercial or public property without a permit. The city does not accept complaints about people keeping pigeons in stables or as pets. Owning pigeons is not illegal in New York. 1. Pigeons are kept in a pen that is not located in the front garden of the property where pigeons are kept. You need a permit to catch pigeons in New York. 3. The enclosure complies with the applicable provisions of the Building Code. (2) Adult pigeon: a pigeon that is at least thirty days old.

* Editor`s note – Order G-4776, adopted on February 8, 2006, effective March 10, 2006, added this subsection No. 8-7.01D. As there was already a paragraph 8-7.01D and in order to maintain alphabetical order, this paragraph was renumbered as paragraph 8-7.01F by order of the City Attorney`s Office. 2. The pen shall not have less than one square foot of floor area for each adult pigeon kept or housed in the pen. 3. Pigeon: any bird of the family Columbidae and the species Columba livia, commonly known as rock pigeon, carrier pigeon or carrier pigeon. (Order No. G-4776, § 2, 2006).