[Adopted 11-5-69 by Ord. No. 129-69]
For the purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
CURB
To locate or position the dog at the curb in such a manner as to cause excreta to fall on the street side of the curb in the gutter and not on the sidewalk or on any area on the property side of the curb.
[Added 1-6-70 by Ord. No. 130-70]
DOG
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
DOG OF LICENSING AGE
Any dog which has attained the age of seven (7) months or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
KENNEL
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a pet shop.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, every person having a right of property in such dog and every person who has such dog in his keeping.
PET SHOP
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part of a kennel, wherein dogs for sale are kept or displayed.
POUND
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized either under the provisions of this Article or otherwise.
SHELTER
Any establishment where dogs are received, housed and distributed without charge.
No person shall keep or harbor any dog within the city without first obtaining a license therefor, to be issued by the Health and Welfare Department, upon application by the owner and payment of the prescribed fee, and no person shall keep or harbor any dog in the city, except in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
A. 
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall allow, suffer or permit it to run at large upon any public property or in any public place or upon the property of another.
[Added 12-21-2004 by Ord. No. 31-2004]
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping or harboring a dog to allow, suffer or permit it to run unrestrained on his/her property without first taking the appropriate devices, such as to restrict the dog from leaving the confines of such property.
If in the reasonable judgment of the Township Animal Control Officer, or a Health Department designee, the purposes of this section can only be accomplished by installation of a material fence, then said fence must be of a height and structure necessary to ensure that any dog(s) remains confined to its owner's property. If the installation of a fence would also require the issuance of a permit by the Construction Official, the Animal Control Officer shall so advise the person.
(2) 
Any person whose dog is impounded by the Orange Health Department for violation of this section shall pay the fees as provided in Chapter 88 prior to release of dog.
Where a dog which has been running at large returns home before being impounded, the owner, keeper or harborer shall be subject to the penalties contained in this section.
B. 
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 city, unless such dog is accompanied by a person over the age of twelve (12) years and is securely confined and controlled by an adequate leash not more than six (6) feet long.
C. 
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit it in public parks or at the entranceway to said parks unless such dog is controlled by a leash, and such leash is held by the hand of a person, as set forth in subsection B above.
[Added 9-7-99 by Ord. No. 24-99]
[Added 1-6-70 by Ord. No. 130-70]
A. 
No person keeping, harboring or maintaining any dog and no person in control of any dog shall suffer or permit such dog to deposit any excretions or commit any other nuisance or cause any damage upon any public sidewalk, lawn, park or building or upon any private grounds, lawns, fences, shrubbery, buildings or structures not under the control of the person keeping, harboring, maintaining or having control of such dog.
B. 
Every person keeping, harboring, maintaining or having control of any dog shall curb such dog for the purpose of depositing any excretions whenever such dog shall be on public property dedicated to public use.
C. 
In addition to the requirements set forth in the preceding subsection B., the person keeping, harboring, maintaining or having control of such dog shall comply with the following conditions:
(1) 
Such person shall be responsible for immediately removing all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary method approved by the local Health Officer (e.g. "pooper-scooper," shovel, etc.)
(2) 
The feces removed in accordance with this section shall be disposed of by such person in a sanitary manner (e.g. garbage receptacle with tight fitting cover).
[Added 10-7-1997 by Ord. No. 27-97]
D. 
In addition to the sanctions for the violation of this section, set forth in Article VII, Section 80-30, Violations and Penalties, any person who violates this section shall also perform community service in an amount not to exceed fifty (50) hours.
[Added 10-7-1997 by Ord. No. 27-97]
[Amended 1-6-70 by Ord. No. 130-70]
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any dog which barks or cries habitually or continuously so as to annoy or disturb persons living in the immediate vicinity where the dog is kept, harbored or maintained.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 80-12, pertaining to vicious dogs was superseded by Ordinance No. 28-97 which is codified in this Chapter 80 as Article VIII, Vicious and Potentially Dangerous Dogs.
The Chief of Police shall promptly after February 1, annually, cause a canvass to be made of all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the city and shall report to the Health and Welfare Department and to the State Department of Health the results thereof, setting forth in separate columns the names and addresses of persons owning, keeping or harboring such dogs, the number of licensed dogs owned, kept or harbored by each person, together with the registration numbers of each dog, and the number of unlicensed dogs owned, kept or harbored by each person, together with a complete description of each unlicensed dog.
A. 
License fees and other money collected or received under the provisions of Articles II, III and IV of this chapter, except registration tag fees, shall be forwarded to the City Treasurer within thirty (30) days after collection or receipt and shall be placed in a special account separate from any of the other accounts of the city and shall be used only for the purposes of collecting, keeping and disposing of dogs liable to seizure under this Article, for local prevention and control of rabies, for all other purposes prescribed by the statutes of the state governing the subject, and for administering the provisions of this Article. Any unexpended balance remaining in such special account shall be retained therein until the end of the third fiscal year following and may be used for any of the purposes set forth in this section. At the end of the third fiscal year following, and at the end of each fiscal year thereafter, there shall be transferred from such special account to the general funds of the city any amount then in such account which is in excess of the total amount paid into such special account during the last two (2) fiscal years next preceding.
[Amended 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]
B. 
The registration tag fees shall be forwarded within thirty (30) days after collection by the Health and Welfare Department to the State Department of Health.
[Amended 1-21-75 by Ord. No. 2-75]
The Dog Warden or any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any duty under this Article 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 such owner is present and forbids the same.