[Adopted by Ord. No. 12-2004 (Ch. 6.12 of the 1996 Municipal Code)]
A. 
Report by veterinarian. Every veterinarian who shall attend any animal within this City, having or suspected of having a reportable disease defined as rabies, glanders or farcy, anthrax or any other communicable disease transmittable to humans, shall within 12 hours thereafter report, in writing, to the Board of Health, the location of such diseased animal, the type and character of the disease and the name and address of the owner.
B. 
Report of suspected cases of rabies. Whenever a dog, cat or other animal is affected by rabies or suspected of being affected by rabies or any other communicable disease within the City, the owner or person in charge of the animal or any person having knowledge thereof shall forthwith notify the Board of Health, in writing, signed by the person making the report, and shall state the location where it may be found.
C. 
Report by physician attending person bitten by animal. Every physician shall, within 12 hours after his first professional attendance upon any person bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, report to the person Board of Health authorized to receive reports of communicable diseases in the City and provide the name of the person bitten, the age, sex, color and the precise location of the person so bitten.
D. 
Report by parent or guardian when child is bitten and no physician attends. The parent or guardian of a child bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, when no physician attends such child, shall, within 12 hours after first having knowledge that the child was so bitten, report to the person designated by law or by the Board of Health under authority of law to receive reports of reportable communicable diseases in the municipality in which the child so bitten may be the name, age, sex, color and the precise location of the child.
E. 
Report when adult is bitten and no physician attends.
(1) 
If an adult is bitten by a dog, cat or other animal and no physician attends him, the adult, or if he is incapacitated, the person caring for him, shall report to the person designated by law or by the Board of Health to receive reports of communicable diseases in the municipality in which the adult so bitten may be, the name, age, sex, color and the precise location of the adult.
(2) 
The report shall be made within 12 hours after the adult was so bitten, or if he is incapacitated, the report shall be made within 12 hours after the person caring for him shall first have knowledge that the adult was so bitten.
A. 
Confining animal which has attacked or bitten person. The Board of Health may serve notice upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal which has attacked or bitten a person to confine the animal at the expense of the owner or person in charge of it upon the premises of the owner or person in charge or at some other place designated in the notice, for at least 10 days after the animal has attacked or bitten a person.
B. 
Killing or confining animal bitten by another. The Board of Health of the City shall serve a notice, in writing, upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal known or suspected to have been bitten by an animal known or suspected of being affected by rabies or any other reportable disease requiring the owner or person in charge of the animal to kill it or confine it for a period of not less than six months.
C. 
Confining animals to prevent spread of rabies. Whenever the Board of Health or any officer or inspector thereof has reason to believe or has been notified by the State Department of Health and Senior Services that there is danger that rabies may spread within the jurisdiction of such Board, such Board, officer or inspector shall serve a notice, in writing, upon all persons within the City, so far as the same may be known to the Board or to such officer or inspector thereof, owning or having charge of any dog, requiring such person to confine such dog, or such Board, officer or inspector in lieu of serving such notice, in writing, may cause a notice to be published in the official newspaper of such municipality. Other animals may be included in the order whenever, in the opinion of such Board, this is necessary.
A. 
The Board of Health or the duly authorized agent of such Board within the City shall be permitted by the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal, which has attacked or bitten a person, to examine the animal at any time, and daily if desired, within a period of 10 days after the animal has attacked or bitten a person, to determine whether the animal shows symptoms of rabies.
B. 
If the animal dies within the ten-day confinement period or if the owner or person in charge of the animal elects to destroy the animal at any time during the confinement period, the Board of Health may order a laboratory examination for rabies to be performed.
C. 
No person shall refuse, obstruct or interfere with the Board of Health in making any examination authorized pursuant to this article.
The Mayor of the City, and the Municipal Clerk, with the consent of the governing body of the City, may, whenever the public safety may require such action, issue a proclamation authorizing the killing of any dog found running at large within the limits of the City without being properly muzzled with a wire muzzle securely fastened about the nose.
The governing body of the City may appoint one or more persons to kill dogs running at large after the issuance of a proclamation as provided in § 84-28 of this article, and any such person or persons so appointed shall have full power and authority and are hereby authorized to kill any such dogs found running at large. No dog shall be killed until notice of the proclamation has been given for one day by written or printed handbills, and no dog shall be killed which is accompanied by its owner.
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article, except §§ 84-28 and 84-30, or any notice served thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of $5 for the first offense, and not less than $5 nor more than $50 for each subsequent offense, to be recovered in a civil action brought by and in the name of the State Department of Health and Senior Services or the Board of Health. Penalties hereunder shall be enforced and collected pursuant to N.J.S.A. 26:3-72, 26:3-77 and 26:3-78.