[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough of Rutherford Board of Health as
indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 11-27-1989 by Ord.
No. BH 3-89]
This chapter shall pertain to any person, firm or corporation that owns,
harbors, keeps and maintains a dog, cat or other animal within the Borough
of Rutherford.
Any dog, cat or other animal that bites or attacks a human shall be
quarantined for a ten-day period of time at the owner's expense. Confinement
shall take place on the animal owner's property or, if off the owner's property,
on a leash in the custody of some person or persons capable of controlling
such animal or at another site approved by the Rutherford Health Department.
A.
Any dog, cat or other animal shall not be released from
quarantine until the owner of said animal, at the owner's own expense, submits
written proof from a licensed veterinarian to the Rutherford Health Department
that said animal was examined by a licensed veterinarian and found to be in
good health.
B.
This examination shall take place after the ten-day quarantine
period and no later than the 15th day of quarantine, at which time a copy
of the veterinarian's report shall be forwarded to the Rutherford Health Department.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A.
26:3-70, be liable to a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $500 for
each violation. Each day a particular violation continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
The provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable, and if
any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof shall, for any
reason, be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining sections, subsections, sentences, clauses
and phrases of this chapter, but they shall remain in effect, it being the
legislative intent that this chapter shall stand notwithstanding the invalidity
of any part
This chapter will take effect immediately upon publication according
to law.
