As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ANIMAL CONTROL AUTHORITY
Any person or agency designated or certified by the State
of New Jersey to enforce the provisions of this article.
CAT
Any member of the domestic feline species; male, female or
altered.
CAT OF LICENSING AGE
Any cat which has attained the age of seven months or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
CATTERY
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein cats for sale are kept or displayed.
HARBORING
Maintaining custody or control over a cat or permitting a
cat to remain on premises or providing shelter or food, which shall
include the leaving of food in an area to which stray cats have access.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The agency or department of the Borough of Oaklyn or any
designated representative thereof charged with administering the issuance
and/or revocation of permits and licenses under the provisions of
this article.
NEUTERED
Rendered permanently incapable of reproduction as certified
by a licensed veterinarian.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a cat, includes every
person having a right of property (or custody) in such cat and every
person who has such cat in his/her keeping or who harbors or maintains
a cat or knowingly permits a cat to remain on or about any premises
occupied by that person.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation. partnership, organization or
institution commonly recognized by law as a unit.
PUBLIC NUISANCE
A cat that damages either public or private property or harms
the lawful users or occupants thereof.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
STRAY CAT
A cat having no known owner or custodian or known place of
care and shelter.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
[Amended 12-27-2006 by Ord. No. 17-06]
A. No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any animal, as defined in §
55-1 above, over six months of age within the Borough of Oaklyn unless such animal is vaccinated and licensed. The provisions of this section do not apply to animals held by a state or federally licensed research facility or veterinary establishment where animals are received and kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical or other treatments or licensed animal shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.
B. There shall be permitted no more than five animals, as defined in §
55-1, above, of six months of age or over to be kept or maintained in or on the premises of any home, dwelling, apartment, residential unit or business place within the Borough of Oaklyn.
C. Any person, firm or corporation who shall keep, possess or have custody and control of six or more animals, as defined in §
55-1 above, or any combination thereof amounting to six animals, but not including newborn animals less than six months of age, within the territorial jurisdiction of the Borough of Oaklyn, shall be deemed to be maintaining a cattery, kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound, and shall be required to obtain any and all state, county and municipal licenses and permits and to submit to the rules, regulations and jurisdiction of those bodies politic.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
Any person who owns, keeps or harbors any cat
located within the Borough of Oaklyn or permits a cat to enter the
Borough of Oaklyn shall exercise sufficient and proper care and control
over such animal at all times so as to prevent the animal from becoming
a public nuisance or otherwise violating this article.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any cat
shall permit it to soil, defile or commit any nuisance on any place
where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever.
This provision shall apply to all privately owned property in the
Borough, except the property of the owner or keeper of the cat and
the property owned or controlled by persons who have invited or permitted
the owner or keeper of a cat to bring such cat upon the premises.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
No person owning or keeping a cat shall permit
such cat to become a public nuisance as defined herein.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
No person shall abandon any cat of any age or
permit a cat to become a stray.
[Added 7-12-1988 by Ord. No. 10-88]
No person shall harbor any nonowned, unlicensed
or stray cat or make food or shelter available to the same following
receipt of a notice from the Secretary of the Borough Board of Health
advising said person that a harboring in violation of this article
is occurring and giving said person seven days within which to cease
and desist such harboring.
[Amended 2-15-1994 by Ord. No. 3-94; 12-28-2010 by Ord. No. 18-10]
Except as otherwise provided in this article,
any person who violates or refuses to comply with any part of any
section of this article shall be liable to a fine and/or penalty of
not less than $150 for each offense, together with the proof of acquisition
of any license that may be required under this chapter. Each day that
a violation occurs shall be deemed a separate and distinct violation,
subject to the penalty provisions of this section.