For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply:
Includes but shall not be limited to mean all of the following adult animals and their respective young: horses, ponies, sheep, goats, cows, mules and donkeys.
[Adopted 7-9-1971 by Ord. No. 71-1BH (Ch. 266, Art. I, of the 1985 Code)]
No animal or animals shall be kept or maintained in the Borough unless such animal or animals has a building for its shelter and a fully enclosed coral or coop for its containment. The running at large of such animal or animals is specifically prohibited.
A.
No building, stable, outhouse or accessory building used for housing an animal or animals shall be located within less than 75 feet from a property line of an adjoining property owner or within 100 feet from any dwelling or within four hundred (400) feet from any other building other than a common dwelling in which people normally congregate, including but not limited to churches and meeting halls and the like or where food is served or sold.
B.
No animal or animals shall be kept, harbored, grazed or other way maintained within less than 25 feet of the property line of an adjoining landowner or within 350 feet from any building in which food is served other than a common dwelling in which people normally congregate, including but not limited to a church meeting hall or the like.
A.
The area requirement shall be one acre per animal for the first two animals and each additional animal shall require 1/2 acre per animal.
B.
The keeping or maintaining of an animal or animals shall be forbidden unless such animal is kept on a plot of land of sufficient area so it shall conform to §§ 392-3 and 392-4A for the first two animals, one acre per animal, and an additional square footage for each additional animal to half of the requirements of §§ 392-3 and 392-4A, 1/2 acre per animal.
In the keeping or the maintaining of an animal or animals, the following rules and regulations shall be applied:
A.
All stables, buildings or accessory buildings must be cleaned weekly of all manure, feculent matter and waste.
B.
All manure, feculent matter and waste must be removed from the premises or spread and treated with lime and with such other chemicals as shall be necessary to prevent odor and the attraction of insects and rodents.
C.
All stables, buildings or accessory buildings shall be fogged or sprayed regularly with an insecticide which is designed to kill flies and insects.
D.
All stable floors and corral areas shall be treated with lime to control odor.
E.
All premises on which animals are kept must be maintained in a sanitary condition.
F.
The keeping of animals in a manner that may foster the breeding of insects and rodents and the germination of bacteria and other infectious microbes is forbidden.
The Health Inspector and the Board of Health are charged with the responsibility of administering this article.
Each animal must be free from sickness and contagious disease. Should the Health Officer or the Borough Board of Health have reasonable cause to question the health of any animal, it shall have the authority to require, after notice to the owner, an examination by a doctor of veterinary medicine within 48 hours, such examination to be at the expense of the owner.
A permit shall be required to be obtained by any person desiring to keep or maintain one or more animals as herein defined in the Borough of Woodcliff Lake. Application for such a permit shall be made to the Health Officer of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake. The said application form shall be provided by the Board of Health and shall set forth the name and address of the applicant, a description of the premises by lot and block number and type of animals to be kept, owned or harbored at the premises and shall illustrate, by diagram, the lands and buildings to be used by the applicant and the relative position of the buildings and the land to be used in respect to the boundary line of the applicant's property and other building within said lot or plot and the relative position of all other buildings on land immediately adjacent on all sides of the land of the applicant.
[Amended 5-8-1985 by Ord. No. 85-2BH]
A license fee as provided in Chapter 396, Fees, Board of Health, shall be paid for each permit issued, and each such permit shall expire on May 15 of each year, unless sooner revoked by the Board of Health.
Any permit granted hereunder may be revoked by the Board of Health for any violations of the provisions herein and for good cause shown after five days' notice, in writing, to the person, firm or corporation to which the permit was granted upon hearing of the charges presented, and no permit so revoked shall be reissued except for good and sufficient reason shown.
Any person, firm or corporation who now owns animals as herein defined shall make application to the Health Officer for a permit pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and provisions of this article within 15 days after the effective date hereof, otherwise any such persons, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be in violation herein.
No permit shall be issued unless the applicant is in compliance with the provisions of this article.
[Amended 5-8-1985 by Ord. No. 85-2BH]
Any person who shall do an act or omit to do an act which is in violation of any operative provision of this article shall be in violation of the law and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a penalty or fine of not more than $500 nor less than $5, in the discretion of the court. Each day for which a violation of this chapter continues shall be considered to be a separate violation hereunder.