[Adopted 7-15-1987 as BH:VI of the
1987 Code]
A.
Reports. Whenever a dog, cat or other animal is infected
or is suspected of being infected with rabies or any other like contagious
or dangerous disease, or has been bitten by an animal known or suspected
of being infected with said diseases, the owner or person in charge
of any such animal, or every other person having knowledge thereof,
shall forthwith notify the Board by telephone and within a twenty-four-hour
period notify the Board in writing, such written notification to be
signed by the person making same.
B.
Outdoor feeding prohibited. All feeding of animals
outdoors shall be prohibited with the following exception: birds may
be fed in verminproof containers.
C.
Notice. Whenever the Board or any officer thereof
has reason to believe, or has been notified by the State Department
that there is a danger that contagious or dangerous diseases may spread
within the jurisdiction of such Board, the Board of Health Officer
shall serve a notice, in writing, upon all persons within the jurisdiction
of such Board, so far as the same may be known to the Board or to
such Health Officer, owning, keeping or having charge of any animal,
requiring such person to confine such animal.
When any person is bitten or attacked by a dog
or other animal subject to rabies or other like contagious or dangerous
disease, such person, his parents, or guardian if he is a minor, the
owner of the animal, or the person having possession or control thereof,
the physician who treats the bite or wound, and any veterinarian or
lay person having knowledge of such bite or wound must immediately
notify the Board of Health. The person owning or having possession
or control of the offending animal must immediately provide for the
examination and observation of such animal by a licensed veterinarian
of the State of New Jersey. Said veterinarian shall immediately report
his findings to the Board by telephone and shall confirm such report
in writing within 24 hours. After such preliminary examination the
animal may be returned to the custody of the person from whom it was
received, except that if the animal has inflicted a face bite it shall
not be returned but shall be confined for such period of observation
as the Board may direct, in a veterinary hospital or other place approved
by the Board. An animal must be returned after preliminary examination
for reexamination after 10 days to the veterinarian who made the preliminary
examination, said veterinarian shall report his findings to the Board
immediately, by telephone and in writing within 24 hours. The animal
shall then be released to the person from whom it was received unless
the animal is rabid or suspected of being rabid.
Any animal confined, under order of the Board
of Health, shall not be released until a certificate of release has
been issued by the Board.
A.
Authorization to examine. The Board of Health or the
duly authorized agent of such Board, within its jurisdiction, shall
be permitted by the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other
animal which has attacked or bitten a person, to examine the animal
at any time, and daily if desired, within 10 days after the animal
has attacked or bitten a person, to determine whether the animal shows
symptoms of rabies or any other like contagious or dangerous disease.
B.
Refusal. No person shall refuse, obstruct or interfere
with the Board in making such examination.
The owner or other person in charge of any dog,
cat or other animal known to be rabid or suffering from any other
like contagious or dangerous disease or is known to have been bitten
by an animal known to have been infected by or with rabies or any
other like contagious or dangerous disease, shall, upon notice by
the Board, do either of the following:
Any person who shall keep or harbor a dog of
licensing age (attained the age of seven months, or which possesses
a set of permanent teeth) shall in the month of January and annually
thereafter apply for and procure from the Secretary of the Board a
license and official metal registration tag for each such dog so owned,
kept or harbored, and shall place upon each such dog a collar or harness
with the registration securely fastened.
A.
The person applying for the license and registration
tag shall pay a fee fixed or authorized by the Board.
B.
Registration tags and licenses shall and renewals
thereof shall expire on the last day of January in each year.
C.
The owner of any newly-acquired dog of licensing age
or of any dog which attains licensing age shall make application for
a license and registration tag for such dog within 10 days after such
acquisition or age attainment.
A.
No person shall allow, under any circumstances, any
dog whereof he is the owner, bailee or keeper, to run at large off
his premises.
[Amended 3-9-1993]
B.
Dogs confined with insufficient restraints. No person
shall maintain a dog on property with insufficient restraints so as
to cause any person lawfully in the public right-of-way or on adjoining
property to be put in fear of imminent bodily injury. Such conduct
is deemed to be a nuisance, a detriment to the public and a violation
of this article. As used herein, "insufficient restraints" shall mean
fencing of insufficient height or construction which would cause a
reasonable person to believe that said fence cannot restrain the dog.
It shall also be sufficient if the dog is muzzled and/or leashed or
chained to a fixed, durable structure or tree within the dog owner's
yard and not closer than 18 inches to neighboring property or to the
public right-of way.
[Added 5-12-1998 by Ord. No. 98-1]
B.
Considerations for granting of license. No license
for the keeping or raising of small animals shall be granted to any
person when the keeping or raising of such small animals, because
of the nature or characteristics thereof, would be detrimental to
the general health of the residents of the neighborhood of the premises
sought to be so licensed.
C.
Regulations.
(1)
No person shall keep any small animals in a hutch
or coop of a size having less than eight square feet of floor space
and being less than two feet in height, without special permission
from the Board.
(2)
Each hutch or coop shall be dry and adequately ventilated
and shall be cleaned daily and rebedded with fresh straw, leaves or
other absorbent material.
D.
Control of disease.
(1)
No person shall keep any small animal, affected with
skin mange, cocceidosis, parasitic worms or other diseases contagious
to other animals or human beings, and any such small animal so affected
shall immediately be destroyed and the carcass cremated forthwith.
(2)
Any hutch or coop wherein such affected animal is
found and all adjoining hutches or coops shall be destroyed or thoroughly
disinfected with a germicide approved by the Board and under the direction
of the Board. The provisions of this article shall not apply to any
small animal under regular professional treatment by a duly licensed
veterinarian, but all provisions shall fully apply when such treatment
shall be discontinued without a full cure having been affected or
when such veterinarian shall certify that, in his opinion, such cure
cannot be affected.
E.
Prohibitions.
(1)
No hutch or coop shall be less than 25 feet from any
dwelling nor less than eight feet from all adjoining property lines.
(2)
No person shall allow any small animal, as the term
"small animal" is herein defined, to run at large in the Borough,
but the same shall, at all times, be confined to the premises licensed
for the keeping thereof.
A.
Determination of health hazard. The Mayor and Council
hereby finds and determines that the soiling of public streets, sidewalks
and areas adjacent thereto and of private property without owner's
permission by droppings of dogs, cats and other animals is detrimental
to the public health and safety of the Borough and its inhabitants,
and in the interest of public health, all such soiling of dogs, cats
and other animals by droppings shall henceforth be prohibited.
B.
DROPPINGS
PRIVATE PROPERTY
PUBLIC STREET OR AREA ADJACENT THERETO
Definitions. As used in this section, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
All feces or similar solid waste matter discharged or eliminated
by dogs, cats or other animals.
All property other than that defined in "public street or
area adjacent thereto," below, and which is owned, managed or controlled
by persons other than the owner of the dog, cat or other animal from
whom permission for the coming on, passing over, straying on or trespassing
of such animals shall first be obtained.
Public streets, ways, alleys, roads, squares, lanes, walks,
and areas, including sidewalks, and shall also include areas adjacent
thereto such as lawns, parking lots, loading zones, driveways, common
areas of multiple dwellings, and other areas accessible to the public
or their animals leading to, adjacent, or in the vicinity of such
public places above set forth.
C.
Prohibition. No person shall suffer or permit any
dog, cat or other animal which such person owns or controls to deposit
any droppings on any public street or area adjacent thereto, or on
any private property without owner's permission unless such person
shall forthwith cause such droppings to be gathered in a suitable
bag, wrapper or other container and disposed of in a safe and sanitary
manner.
