The following words and terms when used in this
article shall be deemed to have the meanings herein stated:
The thorough removal of contaminating material or materials.
Any person feeding and/or sheltering a hoofed animal on premises
for a period longer than 24 consecutive hours.
Any animal which is a solid-hoofed or cleft-hoofed quadruped,
including but not limited to horses, ponies, sheep, goats, cows, mules,
donkeys and swine, whether mature animals or their young.
Any person having the custody, care or control over a hoofed
animal, or knowingly permitting a hoofed animal to remain on his premises
for a period longer than 24 consecutive hours.
Any person having a property right or ownership interest
in a hoofed animal or a fee ownership interest in premises where a
hoofed animal is kept, housed or maintained.
An individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association
of persons.
A.
Any person desiring to keep, harbor or maintain one
or more hoofed animals in the Borough of Harrington Park shall obtain
a permit for each said hoofed animal. Application for each said permit
shall be made to the Health Officer of the Borough of Harrington Park
on application forms to be provided by the Board of Health.
(1)
Each
application for a permit shall specify the following information:
(a)
The name and address of the applicant.
(b)
A description by common address and lot and
block number of the premises on which the applicant desires to keep,
harbor or maintain a hoofed animal.
(c)
A description of the type of hoofed animal to
be kept, harbored or maintained.
(d)
The dimensions and size of the premises on which
the applicant desires to harbor, maintain or keep a hoofed animal.
(e)
The number of hoofed animals that the applicant
proposes to keep, harbor or maintain on the premises.
(2)
Each application shall illustrate by diagram the location
and dimensions on the premises of all buildings, stables and accessory
buildings to be used to house the hoofed animal or animals and the
location of the corral or sty to be used for the outdoor containment
of the hoofed animal or animals. The diagram shall illustrate the
location of each said building, corral or sty in relation to the dwelling
house, if any, on the premises; the boundary lines of the applicant's
property; and all other buildings on said premises; and all other
buildings on the premises immediately adjacent on all sides of the
premises which are the subject of the application.
(3)
Each application for a permit to keep, harbor, or
maintain a horse, pony or other hoofed animal shall be accompanied
by a laboratory certificate of a negative equine infectious anemia
test dated within the year of each application for each animal to
be licensed.
B.
Any person who owns, harbors, keeps or maintains a
hoofed animal within the Borough at the time of the effective date
of this article shall make application, within 15 days after the effective
date, to the Health Officer for a permit pursuant to and in accordance
with the terms and provisions of this article. If an application is
not made within the time prescribed herein, and if said person continues
to own, harbor or maintain a hoofed animal within the Borough thereafter,
said person shall be deemed to be in violation of the terms and provisions
of this article.
An annual permit fee in the amount set forth in Chapter 373, Fees, shall be paid for each permit issued, which permit fee shall be paid prior to the issuance of a permit. Each permit shall expire on June 30 of each year unless sooner revoked by the Board of Health.
A.
No person who owns, harbors, maintains or is the keeper
of a hoofed animal shall permit a hoofed animal to be kept or maintained
in the Borough of Harrington Park unless the premises on which said
animal is kept, harbored or maintained has a stable or separate building
for its shelter and a fully enclosed corral or sty for the containment
of the hoofed animal.
B.
No person who owns, keeps or harbors a hoofed animal
shall permit it to run at large at any time on any public or private
property within the Borough except on private property belonging to
the owner, harborer or keeper of such animal.
Every person who owns, keeps, harbors or maintains
a hoofed animal within the Borough of Harrington Park shall keep and
maintain the property on which said animals are kept, and all buildings
and facilities thereon, in accordance with the following:
A.
Barring acts of nature which render compliance with
this subsection impractical:
(1)
All stables, buildings, corrals, sties and other places
in which a hoofed animal is kept, harbored or maintained must, where
soiled by urine or feculent matter, be limed or cleaned daily and
cleaned weekly.
(2)
Feculent matter and soiled bedding materials must
be stored in closed containers.
(3)
All feculent matter and soiled bedding materials must
be removed at least bimonthly from the premises, or they must be so
spread and treated bimonthly with lime and such other chemicals as
shall be necessary to minimize odor and the attraction of insects.
B.
No person owning, keeping or harboring a hoofed animal
shall willfully permit such animal to soil or defile or commit any
nuisance upon any public sidewalk, public street, public park, public
playground, school playground or the property of persons other than
the owner or the person or persons owning or having the care, custody
or control of such animal. Said person shall be responsible for cleaning
and removing said material on the same day of occurrence.
C.
All stables and buildings in which a hoofed animal
is kept, harbored or maintained shall be fogged or sprayed regularly
with a residual insecticide which is designed to kill flies and insects
and regularly used for that purpose. Spraying must be performed weekly
from May 1 through September 30 of each calendar year.
D.
Grain feeds, including but not limited to oats and
corn, shall be kept in covered, solid-walled containers to prevent
the attraction or sustenance of rodents.
All hoofed animals kept, harbored or maintained
in the Borough shall be kept free from sickness and contagious disease.
In the event that the Health Officer or the Board of Health of the
Borough of Harrington Park shall have reasonable cause to question
the health of any hoofed animal kept, harbored or maintained within
the Borough, the Health Officer or the Board of Health shall have
the authority to require an examination of said animal by a doctor
of veterinary medicine within 48 hours after notice to the owner,
harborer or keeper of said animal. Said examination shall be conducted
at the expense of the owner, harborer or keeper of the hoofed animal.
A.
No permit required by this article shall be issued
to any person unless the applicant presents documentary proof that
the hoofed animal for which a permit is being applied for has received
such inoculations required by regulations established from time to
time by the Board of Health and/or appropriate governmental agencies
of the State of New Jersey.
B.
No permit shall be issued to any person unless the applicant is in compliance with all of the terms and provisions of this article and Chapter 350, Zoning, of the Code of the Borough of Harrington Park. On and after the effective date of this article, no person shall keep, harbor or maintain a hoofed animal within the Borough of Harrington Park unless said person is the holder of a permit applied for and issued pursuant to the terms and provisions of this article.
The Health Officer shall give written notice
to the owner, keeper or harborer of any violations of the provisions
of this article, giving notice of specific violations. Should such
violations remain uncorrected for a period of 10 days after the giving
of written notice, at least five days' written notice shall be given
by the Health Officer requiring the owner, keeper or harborer to appear
at a hearing before the Board of Health. After findings by the Board
of Health (pursuant to said hearing) of a violation of the provisions
of this article, and the willful continuance of such violation during
the entire ten-day period following the receipt of the notice referred
to above, the Board of Health may thereafter revoke any permit. No
new permit shall be reissued to any owner, keeper or harborer whose
permit has been revoked pursuant to this section, except upon a showing
of good and sufficient reason and upon reapplication pursuant to the
provisions of this article.
The Health Officer and the Board of Health of
the Borough of Harrington Park are charged with the responsibility
of administering and enforcing the provisions of this article. The
Health Officer of the Board of Health of the Borough of Harrington
Park is hereby authorized and shall, upon reasonable notice, be permitted
by the adult owner, keeper, harborer or maintainer of any hoofed animal
to enter upon the premises of said person for the purpose of administering
and enforcing the terms and provisions of this article. Prior to inspection
of the premises, the Health Officer of the Board of Health shall identify
himself to said adult owner, keeper, harborer or maintainer.
Any person who violates any of the terms and provisions of this article shall be in violation of the law and, upon conviction, shall be liable to the penalties in Chapter 352, Article III, Enforcement and Penalties, for each offense. Each day for which a violation of this article continues shall be considered to be a separate violation hereunder.
