City of Woodbury, NJ
Gloucester County
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[Adopted by the Board of Health 4-14-1986]
[Amended 11-28-2005 by Ord. No. 2016-05]
Every person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog is herewith required to ensure that such dog shall defecate only upon such person's real property or, if such person is a tenant, on real property leased by such person or the real property of such person's landlord provided for such purpose.
[Amended 11-28-2005 by Ord. No. 2016-05]
The feces of any dog who defecates on real property other than that owned by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of such dog or, if such person is a tenant of real property, on real property other than that leased by such person or the real property of such person's landlord provided for such purpose shall immediately be removed by such person in a sanitary manner and disposed of in a sanitary manner.
[Added by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Woodbury 3-28-2005 by Ord. No. 1989-05[1]]
Any owner or keeper who requires the use of a disability assistance animal shall be exempt from the provisions of this article while such animal is being used for that purpose.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed original §§ 211-3 and 211-4 and replaced them with §§ 211-3 through 211-7.
The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Police Department and the Local Board of Health of the City of Woodbury.
Nothing contained in § 211-1 or § 211-2 shall be construed to relieve an owner or lessee of real property from removing dog feces from the same.
Penalties for violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be not less than $5 nor more than $500.
Each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase of this article is declared to be an independent section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase, and the finding or holding of any such portion of this article to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause, or reason shall not affect any other portion of this article.