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City of Somers Point, NJ
Atlantic County
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No dog or other animal shall be taken or permitted upon the bathing beaches fronting the bays of the Atlantic Ocean, including the beaches of Kennedy Park.
A. 
No person owning or in charge of any dog or other animal shall cause or allow such animal 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 or upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of said property.
B. 
No person shall keep, harbor, feed, raise or breed common pigeons and seagulls which are hereby declared to be a nuisance and a hazard to health; the littering of public or private grounds for the purpose of feeding such birds or placing or causing to be placed any food designated or intended for the purpose of feeding such birds or in such a manner as to increase the hazard of rat infestation therein or thereabout is also hereby declared specifically to be a nuisance and a hazard to health.
A. 
Any person owning or in charge of any dog or other animal which soils, defiles, defecates on or commits any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of said property shall immediately remove all feces deposited by any such dog or other animal by any sanitary method approved by the local health authority. Sanitary methods for removing all feces approved by the local Board of Health are mechanical devices, such as pooch scoops, small shovels, etc. All feces removed by the person owning, harboring, keeping, or in charge of any such animal shall properly dispose of all feces in a sealed, nonabsorbent, leakproof container in an appropriate trash receptacle.
B. 
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be disposed of by the person owning or in charge of any such dog in accordance with provisions of this chapter.
The provisions of this chapter as to removal and disposal of dog feces shall not apply to blind persons who may use dogs as guides.