[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Health
of the Township of Hanover 12-22-1952. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 10-14-1988 by Ord. No. BHI-88]
It shall be unlawful from the date of the adoption
of this chapter for any person, firm, association, partnership or
corporation to raise or maintain any mink or minks within the Township
of Hanover without first having procured from the Board of Health
of the Township of Hanover a license for that purpose. Said license
shall allow the holder thereof to have, keep, raise or maintain on
the premises mentioned in said license not more than four mink, except
as hereinafter provided.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any premises within the corporate limits of the Township
of Hanover, County of Morris, where four or fewer mink are raised,
grown, kept and maintained.
Any person, firm, association, partnership or
corporation desiring a license to operate, conduct or maintain a mink
ranch or mink farm or who desires to raise mink shall file with the
Health Officer of the Township of Hanover in the County of Morris
a written application, signed by the applicant or applicants, which
shall state:
A.
The name and residence of the applicant and, if a
firm, association or partnership, the names and addresses of the members
thereof and, if a corporation, the names and addresses of the stockholders,
directors and officers thereof, together with the name and address
of its registered agent and the address of its principal office.
B.
The location of the premises, giving a full description
thereof, at which it is proposed to operate, conduct or maintain a
mink ranch, mink farm or the raising of mink and whether the applicant
or applicants own or lease such premises.
C.
An agreement by the applicant or applicants that,
should the license be issued to him, her, them or it, he, she. they
or it will accept such license upon condition that it may be suspended
or revoked by the Board of Health for cause after five days' notice
of hearing before said Board of Health, which right of suspension
or revocation for cause the applicant, by acceptance of the license,
agrees is vested in said Board of Health.
D.
An agreement by the applicant or applicants permitting
inspection of the premises at reasonable times and within reasonable
hours by the Health Officer of the Township of Hanover, whose judgment
as to conditions pertaining to the applicant's or applicants' conduct
of his, her, its or their mink ranch or mink farm or place to raise
mink and as to the applicant's or applicants' compliance with this
chapter, approved by the Board of Health, shall be determinative of
the applicant's or applicants' compliance with this chapter.
All applications for a license pursuant to this
chapter shall be submitted by the Secretary of the Board of Health
to the Board of Health of the Township of Hanover in the County of
Morris for approval by it, and no license may be issued by said Secretary
of the Board of Health unless first approved by the Board of Health
aforesaid, which approval shall be based upon the location, suitability
and fitness of the premises for use as a mink ranch or mink farm or
place to raise mink and the compliance of said premises with the existing
Zoning Ordinance of the Township of Hanover in the County of Morris.[1]
[Amended 2-10-1993 by Ord. No. BH2-93]
A license fee as provided in Chapter 284, Fees, of the Code of the Township of Hanover shall be paid for such license, which license is to run for one year from January 1 to December 31 next, and any license obtained during said period shall be subject to a full charge and shall expire on the 31st day of December of the year in which issued. Such license, however, shall not be transferable to any person or to any other premises, but shall expire as of course upon a transfer of ownership of the licensed premises.
If said mink are kept for breeding purposes
and a litter is obtained from said breeding, the number in said litter
shall be immediately reported to the Health Officer of the Township
of Hanover, and said litter shall be disposed of in order to reduce
the number of mink to four or fewer within nine months after said
litter is born.
The applicant or applicants to whom a license
pursuant to this chapter is granted shall comply with all applicable
statutes, ordinances and regulations now existing or hereafter promulgated
and with the following rules and regulations and such rules and regulations
as may be subsequently established:
A.
All mink shall be raised off the ground to allow for
the proper cleaning and disinfecting of the area.
B.
The area beneath which the mink are raised shall be
disinfected with an effective disinfectant at least once in each week
and shall be limed at least once each month.
C.
Refuse and manure shall be removed daily from the
grounds above which the mink are raised and shall be properly buried.
D.
All food fed to mink which is not consumed, as well
as spoiled food, shall be removed daily and shall be properly buried.
E.
Proper fly and rodent control shall be maintained.
F.
Mink raising shall be conducted in such manner so
as not to constitute a nuisance, the constitution of which shall be
determined by the Board of Health.
The record of such license, when issued, shall
be kept by the Board of Health of the Township of Hanover in the County
of Morris. The license shall be subject to revocation for the violation
of any law, rule or regulation existing or promulgated at the time
of the adoption of this chapter or subsequently established.
[Amended 10-14-1988 by Ord. No. BH1-88]
Any person, firm, association, partnership or
corporation violating this chapter, in addition to the suspension
or revocation of the license as hereinabove provided, shall be subject
to a fine, upon conviction before the local Judge who shall have jurisdiction
over any violation of this chapter, of not less than $2 and not more
than $500 in the discretion of the Judge imposing the same.
