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ORDINANCE 2022-07 2 provision of any grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts, salt licks, or any other food that attracts wild animals. a) Living food sources such as trees and other live vegetation shall not be considered food for wild animals. 2) Feeding Songbirds. The feeding of songbirds is permitted under the following conditions: a) Feeding is done from a bird feeder that is designed to prevent other wild animals from feeding and is placed at least 5 feet above the ground. b) The bird feeder does not become an attractive nuisance to other wild animals. c) Songbird feeding occurs on private property owned or controlled by the person responsible for the feeder. 3) Exemptions. a) Specific to Section 91.57(2a), persons that cannot physically place materials 5 feet or higher from the ground, must place feeder at the highest point physically possible and must comply with the other standards contained in Section 91.57(2). b) Snakes (less than four (4) feet in length), gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs mice, turtles, fish (not prohibited by Minnesota DNR) and birds (not prohibited by Minnesota DNR) kept inside of a residence and within a restrictive cage or habitat c) Animal Species otherwise allowed and/or licensed by the City. d) The provisions of Section 91.57 shall not apply to the employees or agents of the City, County, the State, the Federal government or veterinarians who in the course of their official duties have wild animals in their custody or under their management. Section 4.Section §91.58 is hereby added to read as follows: INTERFERENCE WITH CITY PERSONNEL. No person may in any manner molest, hinder, or interfere with any person employed by the city to capture and impound dogs or other animals while the person is within the course and scope of employment. Section 5.Section §94.15 is hereby amended to read as follows: OBSTRUCTIONS PROHIBITED. No person, except under a proper permit issued by the City Manager or otherwise permitted in this code, shall obstruct or encumber any sidewalk, street, avenue, alley, lane, or other public way in the city with yard clippings, leaves, stone, brick, sand, lumber, or other material or property. Consistent with Minnesota Statute 160.2715 Section (a) subdivision (1) which advises that pushing / blowing snow from driveways and sidewalks onto public roads may be punishable as a misdemeanor, no person shall plow, shovel or blow or permit the plowing, shoveling or blowing of snow onto any sidewalk, street, avenue, alley, lane, or other public way in the city. Section 6.Section §96.02 is hereby amended to read as follows: ELECTION TO MANAGE THE PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY Pursuant to the authority granted to the city under state and federal statutory, administrative and common law, the city hereby elects, pursuant Minn. Stat. 237.163 subd. 2(b), to manage rights-of-way within its jurisdiction. Except as specifically authorized by this Chapter, no person shall deposit or permit to be deposited onto the traveled portion of any public street or alley, leaves, grass, sand or