[Added 5-14-1991 by Ord. No. 1479-91]
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Dog or cat.
Any person or agency designated or certified by the State
of New Jersey to enforce the provisions of this article.
Any member of the domestic feline species; male, female,
or altered.
Any cat which has attained the age of seven months, or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein cats for sale are kept or displayed.
The agency or department of Fair Lawn or any designated representative
thereof charged with administering the issuance and/or revocation
of permits and licenses under the provisions of this article.
Rendered permanently incapable of reproduction as certified
by a licensed veterinarian.
When applied to the proprietorship of a cat shall include
every person having a right of property (or custody) in such cat and
every person who has such cat in his/her keeping or who harbors or
maintains a cat or knowingly permits a cat to remain on or about any
premises occupied by that person.
Any individual, corporation, partnership, organization or
institution commonly recognized by law as a unit.
A.Â
Vaccination and license requirements. No person shall
keep, harbor or maintain any cat over seven months of age within Fair
Lawn, unless such cat is vaccinated and licensed. The provisions of
this article do not apply to cats held in a cattery or those held
by a state or federal licensed research facility or a veterinary establishment
where cats are received or kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical
or other treatments, or licensed animal shelters, pounds, kennels
or pet shops.
B.Â
Vaccination. All cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization, published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, except as provided for in Subsection D.
C.Â
Vaccination certificate. A certificate of vaccination
shall be issued to the owner of each animal vaccinated on a form recommended
by the state.
D.Â
Exemptions. Any cat may be exempted from the requirements
of such vaccination for a specified period of time by the Health Department,
upon presentation of a veterinarians certificate stating that because
of an infirmity or other physical condition, regimen of therapy, the
inoculation of such cat shall be deemed inadvisable.
A.Â
Cats must have license number displayed. Any person
who shall own, keep or harbor a cat of licensing age shall annually
apply for and procure from the Health Department thereof to license
cats in the municipality in which he/she resides, a license and official
registration tag with license number, or a registration sleeve for
each cat so owned, kept or harbored, and shall place upon cat a collar
or other device with the license number securely fastened or displayed
thereto when the cat is outside the owner's premises. Acceptable methods
of displaying license number shall include, but are not limited to,
breakaway or elastic collars. License tags or sleeves are not transferable.
B.Â
Time for applying for license. The owner of any newly
acquired cat of licensing age or of any cat which attains licensing
age shall make application for license tag of sleeve for such cat
within 10 days after such acquisition or age attainment. This requirement
will not apply to a nonresident keeping a cat within Fair Lawn for
no longer than 90 days.
C.Â
Cats brought into jurisdiction.
(1)Â
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought
into Fair Lawn any cat licensed in another state for the current year,
and bearing registration tag or sleeve, and shall keep the same or
permit the same to be kept within Fair Lawn for a period of more than
90 days, shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag
or sleeve for each such cat.
(2)Â
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought
into Fair Lawn any unlicensed cat, and shall keep same or permit same
to be kept within Fair Lawn for a period of more than 10 days, shall
immediately apply for a license and registration tag or sleeve for
each such cat.
D.Â
Application, contents, preservation of information.
The application shall state the breed, sex, age, color and markings
of the cat for which license and registration are sought, and whether
it is of a long-or-shorthaired variety; also the name, street and
post office address of the owner, and the person who shall keep or
harbor such cat. The information on said application and the registration
number issued for the cat shall be preserved for a period of three
years by the Health Department.
E.Â
License forms and tags. License forms and official
tags or sleeves shall be furnished by the municipality and shall be
numbered serially and shall bear the year of issuance and the name
of the municipality.
F.Â
Evidence of inoculation with rabies vaccine or certification of exemption; requirement for license. No member of the Health Department of Fair Lawn designated to license cats therein shall grant any such license and official registration tag or sleeve for any cat, unless the owner thereof provides evidence that the cat to be licensed and registered has been inoculated with a rabies vaccine of a type approved by and administered in accordance with the recommendations of the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Human Services, or has been certified exempt as provided by § 62-22 of this article. The rabies inoculation shall be administered by a duly licensed veterinarian or by such other veterinarian permitted by law to do the same.
G.Â
License fee schedule.
[Amended 5-23-1995 by Ord. No. 1599-95; 3-27-2001 by Ord. No. 1848-2001]
(1)Â
The person applying for the license shall pay fees
as follows:
(a)Â
For any sterilized cat over the age of six months,
for which proof of sterilization must be presented at the time of
application: the fee as provided in § 94-12B(6)(a).
(b)Â
For any nonsterilized cat over the age of six
months: the fee as provided in § 94-12B(6)(b).
(c)Â
For three-year licenses covering a three-year
period for any sterilized cat over the age of six months, for which
proof of sterilization must be presented at the time of application,
and for a three-year license for any nonsterilized cat over the age
of six months: the fees as provided in § 94-12B(6)(a) and
(b).
(2)Â
Except for three-year licenses, which shall be renewed
every three years, each license shall be renewed annually. Proof of
rabies immunization must be presented at the time of license or renewal
application. Said licenses and renewals thereof shall expire on the
30th day of June.
(3)Â
H.Â
Fees, renewals, expiration date of license:
(1)Â
License from another municipality shall be accepted.
The person applying for the license and registration tag and/or sleeve
shall pay the fee fixed or authorized. The fee for the renewal of
license and registration tag or sleeve shall be the same as for the
original, and said license, registration tag or sleeve and renewal
thereof shall expire on June 30, 1992, initially and June 30 of every
year thereafter.
(2)Â
Only one license and registration tag or sleeve shall
be required in the licensing year for any cat in Fair Lawn. Any valid
New Jersey license tag or sleeve issued by a New Jersey municipality
shall be accepted by this municipality as evidence of compliance.
I.Â
Loss of license. If a license tag or sleeve has been
misplaced or lost, the Health Department may issue a duplicate license
and/or registration sleeve for that particular cat at a fee as set
from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council.[2]
J.Â
Proof of licensing. Proof of licensing shall be produced
by any person owning, keeping or maintaining or harboring a cat, upon
the request of any health official, police officer, animal control
officer or other authorized person.
K.Â
Interfering with persons performing duties under this
article. No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this article.
L.Â
Disposition of fees collected. License fees and other
moneys collected or received under the provisions of this article
shall be forwarded to the Treasurer/Chief Financial Officer of the
municipality and shall be placed in a special account separate from
any of the other accounts of the municipality and shall be used for
the following purposes: collecting, keeping and disposing of cats
liable to seizure, for local prevention and control of rabies, providing
anti-rabies treatment under the direction of the Health Department
for any person known or suspected to have been exposed to rabies,
and for administering the provisions of this article. Any unexpended
balance remaining in such special account shall be retained until
the end of the third fiscal year following and may be used for any
purpose set forth in this article. At the end of the third fiscal
year following, and at the end of each fiscal year thereafter, there
shall be transferred from such special account to the general funds
of the municipality any amount then in such account which is in excess
of the total amount paid into the special account during the last
two fiscal years next preceding.
Except as otherwise provided in this article,
any person who violates or who fails or refuses to comply with this
article shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $15, nor more
than $100, for each offense, to be recovered by and in the name of
the Health Department or by and in the name of the municipality.