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The Case of the Crowing Rooster

It is not illegal to own roosters in the Town of East Hampton, but not everyone enjoys their enthusiastic way of meeting the morning. But, in the three years Kevin Cooper has served as the director of code enforcement for the town, he has issued only a single ticket for a noise nuisance violation, to a Springs man whose rooster's early-morning calls have sparked a slew of complaints from a neighbor.