[Ord. No. 3886, 5-24-2005, § 1]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any animal of the domestic canine species; male, female,
or altered.
Shall mean that the solid waste is removed at once, without
delay.
Any person who shall possess, maintain, house or harbor any
dog or otherwise have custody of any dog, whether or not the owner
of such dog.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association or political subdivision of the state subject to municipal
jurisdiction.
Placement in a designated waste receptacle or other suitable
container and discarded in a refuse container which is regularly emptied
by the municipality or some other refuse collector; or disposal into
a system designed to convey domestic sewage for proper treatment and
removal.
Waste matter expelled from the bowels of the dog; excrement.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 15; amended by Ord. No. 3511, 8-5-1997, § 1; Ord. No. 6-2021, 2-23-2021]
No person shall own, keep, harbor or protect a dog, either male
or female, within the Township without having such dog registered
and licensed in the manner provided by this article. Dog licenses
shall be applied for during the month of December and shall be effective
for either a one-year or three-year period beginning January 1. The
owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age or any dog which
attains licensing age during any other period must purchase a license
within 10 days of such acquisition or age attainment.
[1]
Editor's Note: For state law as to registration and licensing
of dogs, see N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.1 to 4:19-15.29.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 16; amended by Ord. No. 999, § 1; Ord. No. 1292, § 1; Ord. No. 1840, § 1; Ord. No. 1937, 12-15-1981, § 6; Res.
No. 201-83, 8-9-1983; Ord. No. 2017, 1-3-1984, §§ 1, 2; Ord. No. 3038, 6-17-1986, § 1; Ord. No. 3246, 12-12-1989, § 2; Ord.
No. 3511, 8-5-1997, § 2]
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 17; amended by Ord. No. 3511, 8-5-1997, §§ 3, 4 and 5]
Any person desiring to have a dog registered and licensed in
the Township shall present to the Health Department of the Township
an application signed by the applicant, setting forth the following
facts and agreements:
(a)
Such information as is required by N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.5.
(b)
An agreement that the dog proposed to be registered and licensed
will be confined to the premises designated in the application, or
when not confined there, shall be kept in strict control on a leash
in the hands of a responsible person.
(c)
An agreement that should the dog proposed to be registered and licensed
escape the complete control of its master, or escape from the place
where such dog is to be kept as stated in the application, then the
authorities of the Township may take up, impound, destroy or sell
such registered and licensed dog, in the same manner as an unregistered
or unlicensed dog, except as provided in this article.
(d)
An agreement that the registration and license tag to be supplied
with the certificate of registration and license will be securely
fastened at all times to the neck of the dog described in the application
and which may be registered and licensed, and that such license tag
is not transferable and will be used on one dog only.
(e)
An agreement that should such dog, being registered and licensed,
be found at large within the Township and taken to the public animal
shelter, and notice thereof sent by postal card to the registered
owner or master as indicated by the license tag found on the dog when
so impounded, such master or owner will redeem the dog from the public
animal shelter within seven days of the mailing of the postal card
notice, and pay therefor a boarding fee as set forth in the current
year animal shelter contract for each day, and, in consideration of
such payment, will resume the rights, privileges and obligations of
the original registration and license, or failing to redeem such dog
from the public animal shelter within seven days after the mailing
of such postal card notice, the tag shall be taken up and the registration
and license shall become void and the dog may be destroyed or disposed
of in the same manner as any unregistered or unlicensed dog.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
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When such application is properly made to the Health Department,
it shall issue and deliver to the applicant a proper registration
certificate which shall be numbered in accordance with the consecutive
numbers of all such certificates, and also a metal dog license tag
of suitable design and bearing the same number as the certificate.
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[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 18; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
It shall be the duty of the Health Department to keep a permanent
record of all dog registration certificates issued by the department.
Such record shall set forth all the important statements and agreements
in the application and the number of the certificates and license
tags issued.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 19; amended by Ord. No. 6-2021, 2-23-2021]
All registration certificates and licenses issued under this
article shall be for either the one calendar year or three calendar
years for which they are issued, and shall expire on the last day
of January in the calendar year following either the one-calendar-year
or three-calendar-year period for which the certificate and license
were issued.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 23; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
No person owning or in charge of any dog shall permit such dog
to run at large, whether registered and licensed under this chapter
or not. It shall be the duty of the Animal Control Officer to catch
and confine in the animal shelter all dogs, male or female, registered
or not registered, licensed or unlicensed. which are found at large
within the Township and not in immediate control of a competent master.
[Ord. No. 3058, 10-7-1986, § 1]
No person shall maintain a dog on property in the R-S Residential
Single-Family Detached District with insufficient restraints so as
to cause any person lawfully in the public right-of-way or on adjoining
property to be put in fear of imminent serious bodily injury. Such
conduct is deemed to be a nuisance, a detriment to the public and
a violation of this chapter. Such conduct shall not, however, be punishable
hereunder, unless the dog owner or custodian was previously warned
by any person or by any agency of the Township of the fears created
by the dog and of the insufficiency of existing restraints. As used
herein, "insufficient restraints" shall mean fencing of insufficient
height or construction which would cause a reasonable person to believe
that said fence cannot restrain the dog. It shall be an absolute defense
to this offense if the dog is muzzled or leashed or chained to a fixed,
durable structure or tree within the dog owner's yard.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 17]
If at any time any dog is found running at large, the license
number of such dog, together with the name and address of the owner
of the dog. shall be reported to the Police Department. It shall be
the duty of the desk officer to immediately issue and have served
a summons calling upon the owner of the dog to appear before the Municipal
Court at its next session.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 25]
The Animal Control Officer shall keep a permanent record of
all licensed dogs found at large, showing the date found and impounded,
date of notice to owner, date redeemed, if at all, and, if not redeemed,
the date such licensed dog was destroyed or sold.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 24; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
After a licensed dog is caught and impounded, and provided that
its owner can be identified by a regular license tag of the Township
on the dog, or if the owner or person keeping or harboring such dog
is known, the Animal Control Officer shall immediately notify the
owner or licensee by postal card that the dog has been found at large
contrary to the terms of the license and agreement in the application
therefor. The Animal Control Officer shall give notice that the license
will be void, and the dog destroyed or sold if not redeemed from the
animal shelter within seven days after the date of the postal card
notice, by the payment of a boarding fee as set forth in the current
year animal shelter contract for each day or portion thereof that
such dog is impounded. The payment of such charge shall entitle the
owner or licensee to a renewal of the original license and the possession
of the impounded dog.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 27]
The Animal Control Officer shall promptly destroy by humane methods or sell all dogs found at large within the Township without a license or registration tag issued in accordance with the terms of this article or which are not redeemed according to § 6-24. The Animal Control Officer is hereby authorized, in his discretion, in lieu of the destruction of any dog, to sell the same at such price as he may deem proper. The revenue so derived shall be for the account of the Township and shall be accounted for and reported to the Township Council as all other revenue is reported.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 26; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
Receipts regularly numbered and countersigned in the same manner
as original registration certificates shall be issued by the Health
Department for all money paid to redeem impounded dogs and renew licenses,
and a careful account shall be kept of such receipts.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 29; amended at time of adoption
of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
A monthly report of the amounts collected in accordance with
this article during the previous calendar month shall be sent by the
Health Officer to the CFO.
[R.O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 30; amended by Ord. No. 1840, § 2; Ord. No. 3220, 7-11-1989, § 1; Ord.
No. 3886, 5-24-2005, § 2; Ord. No. 4129, 5-19-2009, § 1]
(a)
Curbing of dogs. No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall
suffer or permit it to soil, defile 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. The restrictions in this section shall not apply:
(1)
To
that portion of the public right-of-way between the lateral line of
the roadway and the adjacent sidewalk, which shall be used to curb
such dog; or
(2)
Where
there is no sidewalk, to that portion of the street within four feet
of a lateral line of the roadway, which shall be used to curb such
dog.
(b)
Leashing and control of dogs. No person owning, keeping or harboring
any dog shall suffer or permit it to be upon the public streets or
in any of the public places of the Township of Teaneck, unless such
dog is accompanied by a person who is capable of controlling the dog
and who has the dog securely confined and controlled by a leash.
(c)
Carrying of pooper scooper. No person owning, keeping, harboring,
in charge of or in control of any dog shall suffer or permit it to
be upon the public streets or in any of the public places of the Township
of Teaneck, unless such person shall at all times have on his person
a proper scoop or container or similar efficient sanitary means to
immediately remove any and all feces deposited by the dog, and such
person shall be required to immediately remove and dispose of, in
a sanitary manner, all feces thus deposited.
(d)
All dog owners and keepers are required to immediately and properly
dispose of their dog's solid waste deposited on any property, public
or private. When the dog shall have defecated on the portion of a
public street between the curblines, it shall not be considered a
violation of this article; provided, however, that the person owning
or in charge or control of the dog shall immediately remove and dispose
of, in a sanitary manner, all feces deposited.
(e)
Any owner or keeper who requires the use of a disability assistance
animal shall be exempt from the provisions of this section while such
animal is being used for that purpose.
[R. O. 1951, Ch. 6, § 28]
It shall be the duty of the Animal Control Officer to report
to the Township Council, at its first regular meeting each month,
in detail as follows:
(a)
The number of redemptions of licensed dogs from the animal shelter
and the amounts collected therefor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
(b)
The number of dogs sold and the amount collected therefor.
(c)
The number of arrests and prosecutions for not taking out registration
certificates and licenses for dogs and the amount of fines collected
therefor.
[Ord. No. 1981, 3-15-1983, § 1; amended by Ord. No. 3058, 10-7-1986, § 2]
The general penalty provisions of § 1-6 of this Code shall apply to any violation hereunder, except that the owner or person having custody of any dog which, while running at large, attacks any person by biting or, while running at large, chases, snaps at or otherwise puts a person in reasonable fear of his or her safety shall be fined not less than $100 for each offense. In addition, the court may impose, as a condition of any sentence, that the dog wear a muzzle when not within the confines of the owner's residence or be confined to the owner's residence.
