Back during the February freeze, 10-year-old Indiana & her sister, 8-year-old Phoenix, started collecting extra eggs from the chickens on their property and sold them to neighbors.
The sisters made less than $100 a week, but their father, Brian Johnson, thought it was be a good lesson for them to manage their money.
Someone apparently complained and they received a letter from the city ordering them to immediately stop selling eggs.
In a statement to CBS-Austin, City Manager Danny Batts says:
“city staff are bound to investigate complaints of ordinance violations which are presented to us and to seek compliance with the laws as they are written. If Mr. Johnson believes that he is not in violation of the city ordinance against producing and selling chicken eggs in a residential zone, he will be given an opportunity to present his case to the Municipal Court judge for a ruling....the selling of chicken eggs or any other animal products produced on the property, from a residentially zoned lot is a violation of city ordinance, regardless of the age of the person conducting the sales.”
Johnson says the girls will now gift the eggs to the neighbors and if they want to donate back, they can.