[Adopted 3-6-1957 as Ord. No. 1957-3]
Hereafter each and every person owning, harboring,
keeping or having charge of any male or female dog shall:
A.
Prevent such dog from running at large upon any public
highway, street, alley, park or other public place in the Township
at any time.
B.
Prevent such dog from being on any public highway,
street, avenue, park or other public place in the Township at any
time unless such dog is securely confined and controlled by an adequate
leash not more than six feet in length in the hands of a person or
persons capable of leading and controlling such dog.
[Amended 6-20-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-5]
C.
Prevent such dog from running at large in the Township
upon the lands or other real estate of any person without the consent
of the owner of such lands or other real estate.
D.
Prevent such dog from injuring or damaging property
of any person other than the person owning harboring, keeping or having
charge of such dog.
[Amended 6-20-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-5]
E.
Prevent such dog from wounding, killing or exhibiting
otherwise violent behavior towards any person or domestic animal other
than the person owning, harboring, keeping or having charge of such
dog.
[Amended 6-20-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-5]
F.
Not cause, suffer, permit or allow such dog to soil,
defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare,
street, sidewalk, passageway, road, bypass, play area, park or any
place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public property
whatsoever, or upon any private property without the permission of
the owner of the private property in the last instance. If any such
person shall permit such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit
any nuisance on the areas aforesaid, he or she shall immediately remove
and dispose of all feces and droppings deposited by such dog, which
removal shall be in a sanitary manner by a shovel, container, disposal
bag, etc.
[Added 12-7-1981 by Ord. No. 1981-29]
Hunting dogs while hunting under the control
of their owners or custodians, and dogs being trained for hunting
by their owners or custodians, shall not be deemed to be at large
or running at large within the meaning and operation of this article.
[Amended 12-7-1981 by Ord. No. 1981-29]
A.
Any male or female dog that shall be found running
at large on any public highway, street, avenue, alley, park or other
public place in the Township shall forthwith be taken and impounded
by the Dog Warden of the Township and shall be kept and destroyed
or otherwise disposed of according to law; provided, however, that
within said period of seven days, the Dog Warden of the Township shall
release such dog to the owner thereof upon claim therefor and upon
payment to the Dog Warden for the expense of keeping such dog while
impounded, at the rate prescribed by the Dog Warden.
B.
The Dog Warden shall report on a monthly basis to
the office of the Animal Registrar all dogs taken by him and the place
where said dog was taken into his custody and the registration tag
number on said dog.
[Amended 6-20-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-5]
Any person who shall violate any of the terms
or provisions of this article or do any act or thing therein prohibited,
or neglect, fail or refuse to do any act or thing therein required
to be done, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Municipal Judge,
forfeit and pay such fine not exceeding the sum of $1,000 or be imprisoned
in the Township jail or county jail for such term not exceeding 30
days as the Municipal Judge, in his discretion, shall determine; provided,
however, that the Municipal Judge shall have power, in his discretion,
to impose sentence of both fine and imprisonment not exceeding the
maximum limits herein fixed.
