For purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses
a set of permanent teeth.
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.
A.
No dog license required by this Article to be obtained
from the Borough Clerk shall be issued for any dog unless and until the person
making application for such license shall present to the Borough Clerk with
the application, as required by § 133-5, a certificate issued by
a duly licensed veterinarian of the state, attesting that such dog has been
vaccinated against rabies within one year prior to the application for such
license, if formalized vaccine was used, or within three years prior to the
application for such license, if avianized vaccine was used.
B.
Any dog may be exempt from the requirement for vaccination
for a specified period of time upon presentation of a certificate from a licensed
veterinarian of the state, stating that by reason of age, infirmity or other
physical condition, the vaccination of such dog for such specified period
of time is contraindicated.
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.
A.
Any person who brings or causes to be brought into the
Borough any dog licensed in another state for the current year and bearing
a registration tag and who keeps the dog or permits it to be kept within the
borough or within the borough and within any other municipality of the state
for a period of more than 90 days shall immediately apply for a license and
registration tag for such dog. This subsection shall not be applicable if
such dog has been licensed for the current year in another municipality of
this state.
B.
Any person who brings or causes to be brought into the
borough any unlicensed dog and keeps the dog or permits it to be kept within
the borough for a period of more than 10 days shall immediately apply for
a license and registration tag for such dog.
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.
A.
If any dog so seized wears a collar or harness having
inscribed thereon or attached thereto the name and address of any person or
a registration tag or if the owner or other person keeping or harboring the
dog is known, the Chief of Police or any person authorized by him in that
behalf shall forthwith serve upon the person whose address is given on the
collar or on the owner or on the person keeping or harboring the dog, if known,
a notice in writing. The notice shall state that the dog has been seized and
will be liable to be disposed of or destroyed if not claimed within seven
days after the service of the notice.
B.
A notice under this section may be served by delivering
it to the person upon whom it is to be served or by leaving it at the person's
usual or last known place of abode or at the address given on the collar.
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.
A.
No person owning, possessing, keeping or harboring a
dog, whether such dog is licensed or unlicensed, shall allow, suffer or permit
such dog to run at large on or about any place within the borough. For the
purpose of this section, the term "such dog to run at large" shall be defined
as and shall refer to a licensed or unlicensed dog which is not accompanied
by or is not under the immediate control of a responsible person.
B.
Whenever a dog is found in or about any street, thoroughfare,
place, lot, building, structure or premises contrary to the provisions of
this Article, it shall be the duty of the Dog Warden to take such animal into
custody and remove or cause the same to be removed to the Borough Pound and
thereafter destroyed or disposed of as provided in §§ 133-14
and 133-15.
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.
