[Adopted 8-28-1970 by Ord. No. O-11-70 as Art. I of Ch. 34 of the 1970
Code of the Township of Winslow[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This legislation was originally adopted 2-26-1965
by Ord. No. 0-1-65.
The following words, when used in this article, shall have the
meanings as specified:
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, every person
having a right of 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.
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized either
under the provisions of this article or otherwise.
Any establishment where dogs are received, housed and distributed
without charge.
A.
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing age in
the Township of Winslow shall annually apply for and procure from
the Township Clerk 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.
[Amended 1-25-74 by Ord. No. 0-1-74; 12-16-81 by Ord. No. 0-29-81; 3-27-85 by Ord. No. 0-14-85;
6-26-07 by Ord. No. 0-17-07]
The person applying for the license and registration tag or
for the annual renewal thereof shall pay to the Township Clerk the
following fees:
A.
License fee of fifteen dollars and eighty cents ($15.80). The dog
license fee of fifteen dollars and eighty cents ($15.80) is hereby
reduced to one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50), the statutory minimum
permitted, for active volunteer firemen and active volunteer EMS squad
members, including life members for each dog license issued in any
given year.
[Amended 3-25-03 by Ord. No. 0-11-03]
B.
State tag fee of one dollar ($1.).
C.
State Pilot Clinic Fund fee of twenty cents ($0.20).
D.
State Animal Population Control Fund fee of three dollars ($3.) for
any dog of reproductive age which has not been neutered or spayed.
E.
Potentially dangerous dog license fee of five hundred dollars ($500.)
when applicable by law.
[Added 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-16-96]
F.
Lost tag replacement fee of two dollars ($2.) when applicable.
[Added 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-16-96]
G.
The dog license fee of fifteen dollars and eighty cents ($15.80)
is hereby reduced to five dollars ($5.) for senior citizens sixty-five
(65) years of age, or older, for the first dog license in any given
year. Additional dog licenses would be subject to the standard licensing
fees. The senior citizen discount shall not take effect until the
1999 licensing year.
[Added 9-22-98 by Ord. No. 0-19-98]
H.
The dog license fee of fifteen dollars and eighty cents ($15.80)
is hereby reduced to one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50), the statutory
minimum permitted, for disabled veterans for each dog license issued
in any given year.
[Added 2-25-14 by Ord. No. O-2014-002]
[Added 6-26-07 by Ord. No. 0-17-07]
[Amended 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-16-96]
Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as
"seeing-eye" dogs, dogs used to assist handicapped persons and commonly
known as "service dogs," or dogs used to assist deaf persons and commonly
known as "hearing ear" dogs shall be licensed and registered as other
dogs hereinabove provided for, except that the owner or keeper of
such dog shall not be required to pay any fee therefor.
License forms and uniform official registration tags designed
by the State Department of Health shall be furnished by the Township
of Winslow, shall be numbered serially and shall bear the year of
issuance and the name of the Township of Winslow.
The owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age or of any
dog which attains licensing age shall make application for a license
and registration tag for such dog within ten (10) days after such
acquisition or age attainment.
A.
The application 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 said application and the registration number issued
for the dog shall be preserved for a period of three (3) years by
the Township Clerk. In addition, he shall forward to the State Department
of Health each month, on forms furnished by the said Department, an
accurate account of registration numbers issued or otherwise disposed
of. Registration numbers shall be issued in the order of the application.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
A.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Township of Winslow any dog licensed in another state for the current year and bearing a registration tag and shall keep or permit the same to be kept within the Township for a period of more than ninety (90) days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog, unless such dog is licensed under § 126-25.
B.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Township of Winslow any unlicensed dog and shall keep or permit the same to be kept within the Township for a period of more than ten (10) days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog, unless such dog is licensed under § 126-25.
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.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
No person owning or having the control, custody or possession
of a dog shall permit or suffer such dog to run at large or to go
or be upon the public streets, sidewalks or other public places within
the Township unless said dog shall be on a leash and in the custody
of some person or persons capable of controlling such dog.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
A.
License fees and other moneys collected or received under this article,
except registration tag fees, shall be forwarded to the Treasurer
of the Township 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 Township of Winslow, and such funds shall be
used, expended or transferred only in accordance with statutes of
the State of New Jersey governing and regulating the use, expenditure
or transfer of such funds.
B.
The State registration tag fee for each tag shall be forwarded within
thirty (30) days after collection to the State Department of Health
in accordance with statutes and regulations of the State of New Jersey
and in the amount specified therein.
[Amended 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-16-96]
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
The Township Clerk shall forward to the State Department of
Health a list of all kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds licensed
within thirty (30) days after the licenses therefor are issued, which
list shall include the name and address of the licensee and the kind
of license issued.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
The Animal Control Officer, when no other person has been appointed
by the governing body, shall annually cause a canvass to be made of
all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the limits of the Township
of Winslow and shall report, on or before September 1 of each year,
to the Township Clerk, to the local Board of Health and to the State
Department of Health, the result thereof, setting forth in separate
columns the names and addresses of persons owning, keeping or harboring
unlicensed dogs, the number of unlicensed dogs owned, kept or harbored
by each of said persons, together with a complete description of each
of said unlicensed dogs.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
A.
The Chief of Police or Dog Warden shall take into custody and impound
or cause to be taken into custody and impounded and thereafter destroyed
or disposed of, in accordance with statutes of the State of New Jersey,
the following:
(1)
Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or
harboring said dog which said Chief of Police or Dog Warden or his
agents or agent has or have reason to believe is a stray dog.
(2)
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.
(3)
Any female dog in season off the premises of the owner or of the
person keeping or harboring the dog.
B.
If any dog so seized 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 person keeping or harboring said dog is known,
the Chief of Police or Dog Warden or any person authorized by him
in that behalf shall forthwith serve on the person whose address is
given on the collar, or on the owner or on the person keeping or harboring
said 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 (7) days after service of the notice. 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 or to the address set forth on the application for the
license.
C.
When any dog so seized has been detained for seven (7) days after
notice, when notice can be given as above set forth, or has been detained
for seven (7) days after seizure, when no notice has been given, and
if the owner of the dog or person keeping or harboring said dog has
not claimed the said dog and paid all expenses incurred by reason
of its detention, including maintenance not exceeding one dollar ($1.)
per day, and further, if the dog is unlicensed at the time of the
seizure and the owner or person keeping or harboring said dog has
not produced a license and registration tag for said dog, the Chief
of Police or Dog Warden or any person authorized by him in that behalf
may cause the dog to be destroyed in a manner causing as little pain
as possible, in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any
duty hereunder is hereby authorized to go upon any premises to seize
for impounding any dog or dogs which he may lawfully seize and impound
when he is in immediate pursuit of such dog or dogs, in accordance
with laws of the State of New Jersey, except upon the premises of
the owner of the dog if such owner is present and forbids the same.
[Amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this article.
[Added 7-23-96 by Ord. No. 0-9-96; amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
No person owning, keeping, or harboring any dog shall permit
it to soil, defile or commit any nuisance on any place where people
congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever. This provision
shall apply to all privately owned property in the Township, except
the property of the owner or keeper of the dog and the property owned
or controlled by persons who have invited or permitted the owner or
keeper of a dog to bring such dog upon the premises.
Editor's Note: See also Chapter 202, Pet Waste Disposal.
[Added 12-17-96 by Ord. No. 0-16-96; amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
New Jersey Law P.L. 1994 Chapter 187 and N.J.S.A. 4:19 entitled
"Dogs, Taxation and Liabilities for Injuries Caused By" and all subsequent
amendments thereto, be and the same is hereby ordained and referenced
as though set forth herein.
The municipal license fee for a potentially dangerous dog shall
be five hundred dollars ($500.) per year. The Animal Control Officer
shall adhere to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:19 including, but not
limited to, all periodic inspections, reports and enforcement measures
provided therein.
[Added 7-17-01 by Ord. No. 0-14-01; amended 3-22-16 by Ord. No. O-2016-008]
It shall be unlawful for any person to own, keep, harbor, or
have custody of any dog which frequently or for continued duration
barks or makes unnecessary or unusual sounds that create a noise disturbance
across residential property lines. For the purpose of this provision,
a noise disturbance from a barking dog shall be defined as that created
by a dog barking continually for ten (10) minutes or intermittently
for thirty (30) minutes, unless said dog has been provoked.
