For purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
DOG
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
DOG OF LICENSING AGE
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses
a set of permanent teeth.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, includes every person
having a right of property in such dog and every person who has such dog in
his keeping.
No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog within the borough without
registering and obtaining a license therefor, to be issued by the Borough
Clerk upon application by the owner and payment of the prescribed fee. No
person shall own, keep or harbor any dog in the borough except in compliance
with the provisions of this Article.
The application shall state the breed, sex, age, color and marking of
the dog for which license and registration are sought and whether it is of
a long- or short-haired variety. The application shall also state the name,
street and post office address of the owner and of the person who will keep
or harbor such dog. The information on the application and the registration
number issued for the dog shall be preserved for a period of three years by
the Clerk. Registration numbers shall be issued in the order of application.
Any person who owns, keeps or harbors a dog of licensing age shall,
annually in the month of January, apply for and procure from the Clerk a license
and official registration tag for each such dog so owned, kept or harbored.
Such person shall place upon each such dog a collar or harness with the registration
tag securely fastened thereto.
For each annual renewal, the fee for the license and for the registration
tag shall be the same as for the original license and tag. The licenses, registration
tags and renewals thereof shall expire on the last day of January of the following
year.
Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as "Seeing
Eye" dogs and veteran dogs, also known as "K-9" dogs, shall be licensed and
registered as other dogs, except that the owner or keeper of such dog shall
not be required to pay any fee therefor.
The owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age or of any dog that
attains licensing age shall make application for license and registration
tag for such dog within 10 days after such acquisition or age attainment.
No person, except an officer in the performance of his duties, shall
remove a registration tag from the collar of any dog without the consent of
the owner, nor shall any person attach a registration tag to a dog for which
it was not issued.
The Dog Warden shall take into custody and impound or cause to be taken
into custody and impounded and thereafter destroyed or disposed of, as provided
in §§
133-14 and
133-15:
A. Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person
keeping or harboring the dog which the Dog Warden or his assistant or assistants
have reason to believe is a stray dog.
B. Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person
keeping or harboring the dog without a current registration tag on his collar.
C. Any female dog in season off the premises of the owner
or of the person keeping or harboring the dog.
For every dog seized under §
133-13, there shall be detention
expense charged in the amount of $3, which shall include maintenance for the
first calendar day. Thereafter there shall be a maintenance charge for each
dog so seized at the rate of $1 per day. When any dog so seized has been detained
for seven days after notice or has been detained for seven days after seizure,
when notice has not been and cannot be given as set forth in §
133-14
and if the owner or person keeping or harboring the dog has not claimed the
dog and has not paid expenses incurred by reason of its detention, including
the maintenance charge, or if the dog is unlicensed at the time of the seizure
and the owner or person keeping or harboring the dog has not produced a license
and registration tag for such dog, the Dog Warden may cause the dog to be
destroyed in manner causing as little pain as possible or otherwise dispose
of the dog.
The Dog Warden shall annually, after February 1 of each year, promptly
cause a canvass to be made of all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the
borough. He shall report to the Clerk, to the Board of Health and to the State
Department of Health the result thereof, setting forth in separate columns:
A. The names and addresses of persons owning, keeping or
harboring dogs.
B. The number of licensed dogs owned, kept or harbored by
each of such persons, together with the registration number of each of such
dogs.
C. The number of unlicensed dogs owned, kept or harbored
by each of said such persons, together with a complete description of each
unlicensed dog.
No person owning, keeping or harboring a dog shall permit or suffer
it to do any injury or to do any damage to any lawn, shrubbery, flowers, grounds
or property or to any person or animal.
The provisions of this Article shall be construed to be in addition
to the provisions of the statutes of the state and of ordinances of the Board
of Health, relating to rabies and the control of dogs and to the penalties
provided therein.