A chapter to prohibit the feeding of unconfined wildlife in any public
park or on any other property owned or operated by the Borough of Hillsdale,
so as to protect public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties
for failure to comply.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words
and their derivations shall have the meanings stated herein unless their use
in the text of this chapter 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 sense of taking 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 Borough of Hillsdale, any wildlife, excluding confined
wildlife (for example, wildlife confined in zoos, parks or rehabilitation
center, or unconfined wildlife at environmental education centers, or feral
cats as part of an approved trap-neuter-release program).
Any person(s) who is found to be in violation of the provisions of this
ordinance shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $500.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase of this chapter
is declared to be an independent section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase, and the finding or holding of any such portion of this chapter to
be unconstitutional, void, or ineffective for any cause, or reason, shall
not affect any other portion of this chapter.