The purpose of this article is to prohibit the feeding of unconfined
wildlife in any public park or on any other property owned or operated by
the Township of Hillsborough, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare,
and to prescribe penalties for failure to comply.
For the purpose of this article, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use
in the text of this article clearly demonstrates a different meaning. When
not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include
the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number, and
words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory.
FEED
To give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any edible
material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing wildlife. Feeding
does not include baiting in the legal taking of fish and/or game.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association
or political subdivision of this state subject to municipal jurisdiction.
WILDLIFE
All animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
No person shall feed, in any public park or on any other property owned
or operated by the Township of Hillsborough, any wildlife, excluding confined
wildlife (for example, wildlife confined in zoos, parks or rehabilitation
centers or unconfined wildlife at environmental education centers).
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this
article shall be subject to, after being duly notified, imprisonment in the
Somerset County Jail or in any place provided by the Township of the detention
of prisoners, for any term not exceeding 90 days; or by a fine not exceeding
$1,250; or by a period of community service not exceeding 90 days.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase of this article
is declared to be an independent section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase, and the finding or holding of any such portion of this article to
be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause or reason shall not
affect any other portion of this article.
This article shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption
and any publication as may be required by law.