[Amended 2-9-2006 by Ord. No. 1953]
No person owning or having the control, custody or possession of a dog shall permit or suffer such dog to run at large or to go or be upon the public streets, sidewalks or other public places within the Borough unless said dog shall be on a leash, which leash shall have an overall length as provided in Chapter
91, Animals, Article
I, Licensing and Control of Dogs, and shall be in the custody of some person or persons capable of controlling such dog.
No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any dog shall cause, suffer or allow such dog to soil, defile,
defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk,
passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate
or walk, upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property
without the permission of the owner of said property. The restriction
in this section shall not apply to that portion of the street lying
between the curblines, which shall be used to curb such dog under
the following conditions:
A. The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately
remove all feces deposited by such dog, by any sanitary method approved
by the local health authority.
B. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping
or in charge of any dog curbed, in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, in a sanitary manner approved by the local health
authority.
[Added 5-14-1980 by Ord. No. 13-75-80; amended 2-9-2006 by Ord. No. 1953]
The provisions of this chapter and all the rules
and regulations promulgated pursuant hereto shall be enforced by the
members of the New Jersey State Police Department, Bergen County Police
Department, North Arlington Police Department, Health Officer, Animal
Control Officer and any employee of the North Arlington Board of Health.
Said persons shall have such duties and powers as shall be prescribed
by the Board of Health of the Borough of North Arlington and shall
have power to issue summonses for any violation of any section of
this chapter and other violations of rules and regulations promulgated
hereto.
[Amended 2-9-2006 by Ord. No. 1953]
Any person violating or failing to comply with
any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof,
be punishable by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $500 in
the discretion of the court. The continuation of such violation for
each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person
or persons allowing or permitting the continuance of the violation
may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.