Town of West New York, NJ
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2022-12-14
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 174 Dogs and Other Animals
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Article IV Dangerous Animals
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Agreements, Joint
- Ch 4 Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
- Ch 5 Attendance Policy
- Ch 6 Authorities
- Ch 8 Automotive Maintenance and Repair, Division of
- Ch 10 Board of Education
- Ch 11 Civil Rights Commission
- Ch 13 Civil Service
- Ch 16 Community Development, Department of
- Ch 19 Construction Board of Appeals
- Ch 21 Construction Code Official
- Ch 24 Court, Municipal
- Ch 27 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 30 Electrical Subcode Official
- Ch 31 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 33 Environmental Commission
- Ch 36 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 39 Finances
- Ch 42 Fire Department
- Ch 46 Franchises
- Ch 49 Housing, Department of
- Ch 53 (Reserved)
- Ch 56 Law Department
- Ch 58 Library Board
- Ch 59 License Department
- Ch 62 Local Civil Defense Council
- Ch 66 (Reserved)
- Ch 69 Officers and Employees
- Ch 72 Parking Services Agency
- Ch 74 Pensions
- Ch 76 Personnel
- Ch 80 Police Department
- Ch 83 Police and Fire Department Affairs
- Ch 86 Public Affairs, Department of
- Ch 88 Purchasing
- Ch 90 Residency Requirements
- Ch 93 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 95 Sanitation Division
- Ch 97 Swimming Pool Commission, Municipal
- Ch 98 Tenants Advocacy
- Ch 100 Urban Enterprise Zone
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 108 Air Pollution
- Ch 111 Alarm Systems
- Ch 114 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 117 Amusements
- Ch 121 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 124 Automobile Service Stations
- Ch 125 Background Checks
- Ch 126 Bamboo
- Ch 127 Barbershops, Beauty Salons and Nail Salons
- Ch 130 Bicycles, Electric Bicycles and Scooters
- Ch 135 Building Construction Standards
- Ch 139 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 142 Burglary Prevention
- Ch 145 Canopies and Awnings
- Ch 148 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 151 Checks, Returned
- Ch 154 Christmas Tree Sales
- Ch 158 Condominium Conversions
- Ch 161 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 162 Construction Cranes
- Ch 164 Contractors, Registration of
- Ch 167 Curfew
- Ch 170 Defacement of Property
- Ch 174 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 174 Art IV Dangerous Animals
- § 174-25 Definitions.
- § 174-26 Owning, keeping, harboring, exhibiting or walking in public.
- § 174-27 Investigation of complaint; notice; seizure and impoundment.
- § 174-28 Costs to be charged against owner or keeper.
- § 174-29 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 178 Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 181 Dumpsters/Construction Containers
- Ch 186 Fees
- Ch 189 Filming
- Ch 192 Firearms and Fireworks
- Ch 195 Fire Limits
- Ch 198 Fire Prevention
- Ch 200 First Responder Radio Communications
- Ch 201 Flea Markets
- Ch 204 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 207 Food Handling
- Ch 210 Fuel Devices and Suppliers
- Ch 215 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 218 Heating
- Ch 221 Housing, Affordable
- Ch 222 Identification Card Program
- Ch 223 Insurance
- Ch 227 Junk Dealers
- Ch 231 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 234 Laundries and Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 237 Limousines and Livery Vehicles
- Ch 242 Littering
- Ch 245 (Reserved)
- Ch 248 Massage Parlors
- Ch 251 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 254 Mobile or Street Food Vendors
- Ch 257 Mopeds
- Ch 260 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 263 Newsracks
- Ch 266 Noise
- Ch 269 Nuisances
- Ch 273 Obscenity
- Ch 277 Parking
- Ch 280 Parking Lots, Municipal
- Ch 284 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 287 Plastic Coverings and Bags
- Ch 290 Plumbing Standards
- Ch 293 Police Protection
- Ch 296 Precious Metals
- Ch 299 Property Maintenance
- Ch 302 Public Property, Damage to
- Ch 304 Real Property
- Ch 306 Recycling
- Ch 309 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 310 Relocation Assistance
- Ch 312 Rent Control
- Ch 316 Rooming, Lodging and Boarding Houses
- Ch 319 Sales, Special
- Ch 322 Sanitation
- Ch 325 Screens, Protective
- Ch 327 Security Cameras
- Ch 328 Sewage Disposal, Individual
- Ch 329 Sewerage Authority, North Hudson
- Ch 331 Sewers
- Ch 335 Shows and Exhibitions
- Ch 338 Signs
- Ch 341 Skates, Skateboards, Roller Blades, In-Line Skates and Scooters
- Ch 344 Smoke Detectors
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 348 Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 352 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Strikebreakers
- Ch 358 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 361 Swimming Pools
- Ch 364 Taxation
- Ch 367 Taxicabs
- Ch 370 Telephones
- Ch 374 Tort Claims
- Ch 377 Towing
- Ch 379 Tree Removal
- Ch 380 Utility Poles and Underground Facilities
- Ch 380A Vacation Rentals, Short-Term
- Ch 381 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 382 Vehicle Boot Pilot Program
- Ch 384 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 387 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 391 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 394 Vending Machines, Food
- Ch 398 Vibration
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 403 Waterfronts
- Ch 406 Weapons
- Ch 409 Weeds
- Ch 414 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 8-17-1994 as part of Ord. No. 92/94]
As used in this Article IV, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
Includes any mammal, reptile or fowl which is not naturally
tame or gentle and which because of its size, vicious nature or other
characteristics would constitute a danger to human life or property
if it is not kept or maintained in a safe manner or in secure quarters.
Seize summarily, confine and retain in custody.
The owner, keeper, handler or harborer.
Includes any natural person, association, partnership or
organization or corporation.
No person shall own, keep or harbor any dangerous
animal in the town nor permit said animal to be exhibited or walked
in public anywhere in the town.
A.
Upon the written complaint of any person that a person
owns or is keeping or harboring or exhibiting or walking a dangerous
animal in the town, the Chief of Police shall forthwith cause the
matter to be investigated, and if after investigation the facts indicate
that such person named in the complaint is in fact the owner or is
keeping or harboring any such dangerous animal in the town, he shall
forthwith send written notice to such person, requiring such person
to safely remove said animal from the town within two days of the
date of said notice. Notices herein provided shall not be required
where such dangerous animal has previously caused or threatened to
cause serious physical harm or death to any person or has escaped
and is at large, in which case the Chief of Police shall cause said
animal to be immediately seized and impounded or killed, if seizure
and impoundment are not possible without risk of serious physical
harm or death to any person.
B.
The Chief of Police shall forthwith cause to be seized
and impounded any dangerous animal where the person owning, keeping
or harboring such animal has failed to comply with the notice sent
pursuant to this section. Upon a seizure and impoundment, such animal
shall be delivered to a place of confinement which may be with any
organization which is authorized by law to accept, own, keep or harbor
such animals.
C.
If, during the course of seizing and impounding any
such animal, the animal poses a risk of serious physical harm or death
to any person, such person or persons authorized by the Chief of Police
may render said animal immobile by means of tranquilizers or other
safe drugs or if that is not safely possible, then said animal may
be killed.
Any reasonable costs incurred by the Chief of
Police in seizing, impounding and for confining any dangerous animal
shall be charged against the owner, keeper or harborer of such animal.
Such charge shall be in addition to any fine or penalty provided for
violating this article.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
provision of this article shall be fined not less than $100 nor more
than $1,000 for each offense and may be confined to the Hudson County
Jail for a period not in excess of six months. A separate offense
shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation
occurs or continues.
