[Adopted 8-20-1963 (Ch.
68 of the 1981 Code)]
For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
As defined in N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.1.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding
or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a
pet shop.
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, shall include
every person having a right to property in such dog and every person
who has such dog in his keeping.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein dogs for sale are kept or displayed.[1]
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized either
under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise.
Any establishment where dogs are received, housed and distributed.[2]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
[Amended 8-17-1981 by Ord. No. 6-81]
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing age shall annually in the month of January apply for and procure from the Clerk of the Township or other official designated by the Township Council thereof to license dogs a license and official metal registration tag for each such dog so owned, kept or harbored and shall place upon each such dog a collar or harness with the registration tag securely fastened thereto. The fees for the annual registration tag and the license shall be as provided in Chapter A565, Fees.
A.
The application for licenses and registration under this article
shall state the breed, sex, age, color and markings of the dog for
which license and registration are sought and whether it is of a long-
or short-haired variety; also, the name, street and post-office address
of the owner and the person who shall keep or harbor such dog.
B.
The information on such application and the registration number issued
for the dog shall be preserved for a period of three years by the
Township Clerk or other person designated to issue such licenses and,
in addition, such Clerk or other person shall forward to the State
Department of Health each month, on forms furnished by such Department,
an accurate account of registration numbers issued or otherwise disposed
of. Registration numbers shall be issued in the order of the applications.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Dogs used as guides dogs or service dogs (as defined in N.J.S.A.
10:5-5) shall be licensed and registered as other dogs as hereinabove
provided for, except that the owner or keeper of such dog shall not
be required to pay any fee therefor. A dog temporarily placed in a
foster home as part of a formalized training to be a guide dog or
service dog shall not be required to be licensed and registered while
the dog remains in the foster home for such training.
The owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age or of any
dog which attains licensing age shall make application for license
and registration tag for such dog within 10 days after such acquisition
or age attainment.[1]
A.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Township any dog licensed in another state for the current year and bearing a registration tag and shall keep the same or permit the same to be kept within the Township for a period of more than 90 days shall immediately apply for a license, as herein provided, unless such dog is licensed under § 145-7.
B.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Township any unlicensed dog and shall keep the same or permit the same to be kept within the Township for a period of more than 10 days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog unless such dog is licensed under § 145-7.
No person, except an officer in the performance of his duties,
shall remove a registration tag from the collar of any dog without
the consent of the owner, nor shall any person attach a registration
tag to a dog for which it was not issued.
Any person who keeps or operates or proposes to establish a
kennel, a pet shop, or a shelter shall apply to the Clerk of the Township
for a license entitling him to keep or operate such establishment.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The application for a license required by the preceding section
shall describe the premises where the establishment is located or
is proposed to be located, the purpose for which it is to be maintained
and shall be accompanied by the written approval of the Township showing
compliance with the local and state rules and regulations governing
location of and sanitation at such establishments.
A.
All licenses issued for a kennel, pet shop, or shelter shall state
the purpose for which the establishment is maintained, and all such
licenses shall expire on the last day of January of each year and
be subject to revocation by the Township on recommendations of the
State Department of Health or the Township for failure to comply with
the rules and regulations of the State Department or Township governing
the same after the owner has been afforded a hearing by either the
State Department of Health or the Township.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
In addition to the foregoing, the person who proposes to operate
or establish a kennel shall comply with the rules and regulations
of the State Department of Health as established by it.
[Amended 8-17-1981 by Ord. No. 6-81]
No dog kept in a kennel, pet shop, or shelter shall be permitted
off such premises except on a leash or in a crate or other safe control.
The Chief of Police or Animal Control Officer shall take into custody and impound or cause to be taken into custody and impounded and thereafter destroyed or disposed of as provided in § 145-19:
A.
Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or
harboring the dog which such official or his agent or agents have
reason to believe is a stray dog.
B.
Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or
harboring said dog without a current registration tag on his collar.
C.
Any female dog in season off the premises of the owner or of the
person keeping or harboring such dog.
A.
If any dog seized as provided in the preceding section wears a collar
or harness having inscribed thereon or attached thereto the name and
address of any person or a registration tag or the owner or the person
keeping or harboring such dog is known, the Chief of Police or Animal
Control Officer shall forthwith serve on the person whose address
is given on the collar, or on the owner or the person keeping or harboring
such dog, if known, a notice, in writing, stating that the dog has
been seized and will be liable to be disposed of or destroyed if not
claimed within seven days after the service of the notice.
B.
A notice under this section may be served either by delivering it
to the person on whom it is to be served or by leaving it at the person's
usual or last known place of abode or at the address given on the
collar or by forwarding it by post in a prepaid letter addressed to
that person at his usual or last known place of abode or to the address
given on the collar.
[Amended 8-17-1981 by Ord. No. 6-81]
When any dog seized as provided in § 145-17 has been detained for seven days after notice, when notice can be given as set forth in the preceding section, or has been detained for seven days after seizure, when no notice has been given as set forth in the preceding section and if the owner or person keeping or harboring such dog has not claimed such dog and paid all expenses incurred by reason of its detention, including maintenance not exceeding the fee provided for in Chapter A565, Fees, and if the dog be unlicensed at the time of the seizure and the owner or person keeping or harboring the dog has not produced a license and registration tag for the dog, the Chief of Police or Animal Control Officer may cause the dog to be destroyed in a manner causing as little pain as possible.
[Added 11-1-1976 by Ord.
No. 18-76; amended at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any animal
shall cause, suffer 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. The restriction
in this section shall not apply to that portion of the street lying
between the curblines, which shall be used to curb such animal under
the following conditions:
A.
The person who so curbs such animal shall immediately remove all
feces deposited by such animal by any sanitary method approved by
the local health authority.
B.
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be
disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any animal curbed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
in a sanitary manner approved by the local health authority.
[Amended 6-17-1985 by Ord. No. 11-85]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer
or permit it to run at large upon the public streets or in any public
park or in any public building or at any other public place within
the Township. No person shall permit any dog in his care or under
his control to go upon the lawn, yard or entrance walk or driveway
of any private residence without the permission of the owner thereof.
Except when confined to the property of the owner, dogs will be on
a leash at all times.
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any dog which habitually
barks, howls or whines.[1]
No owner or keeper shall allow any dog to injure or damage any
vegetable garden, flower garden, lawn, plant, tree, shrubbery, grounds
or other property of any other person other than the person owning,
harboring or keeping or having charge of such dog.
Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any
duty under this chapter is hereby authorized to go upon any premises
to seize for impounding any dog which he may lawfully seize and impound
when such officer is in immediate pursuit of such dog except upon
the premises of the owner of the dog if the owner is present and forbids
the same.
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this chapter.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Sec. 6.26 of the 1963 Revised Ordinances,
which immediately followed this section, and which provided for nuisances
on public property, was deleted 8-17-1981 by Ord. No. 6-81.
[Amended 8-17-1981 by Ord. No. 6-81; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
