Shall mean any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
Shall mean any dog which has attained the age of seven months,
or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Shall mean any dog, as defined in this section, which attacks
and bites, or attempts to attack and bite, persons or dogs or other
animals, without being incited to do so, or which has shown such savagery,
fierceness or ferocity as to indicate that it is a threat to the safety
of persons.
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, shall mean and
include every person having a right of propriety of such dog, and
every person who has such dog or other animal in his keeping or under
his control. A person shall be deemed to have a dog or other animal
in his keeping whenever the ownership or custody of any dog or other
animal is in an unemancipated infant or other member of his household.
Shall mean off the property of the owner and not on a leash.
Shall mean an establishment for the confinement of dogs seized
under the provisions of this chapter, state statutes or otherwise.
Shall mean the Borough of Waldwick, County of Bergen and
State of New Jersey.
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing
age shall, within 10 days after the acquisition thereof and annually
thereafter in the month of January, apply for and procure from the
Borough 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. Such 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 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.
(See § 48:42-3.)
(See § 48:42-3.1.)
The disposition of license fees and registration fees collected
hereunder shall be in accordance with N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.11.
The Board of Health of the Borough shall annually cause a canvass
to be made of all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the Borough
and shall report, on or before May 1 of each year, to the Borough
Clerk 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 and 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.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person owning, keeping harboring or
having the custody and possession of any dog, whether registered or
not, to permit such dog to be at large within the Borough unless securely
confined in a vehicle and under the direct and immediate close supervision
of a person capable of controlling such dog. The provisions of this
section shall not be applicable to the canine unit of the Borough's
Police force, the canine units of other governmental agencies called
by the Waldwick Police Department as part of mutual aid, or dogs that
are members of the Waldwick Volunteer Goose Patrol.
[Amended 4-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-14]
B.
No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog shall
cause, suffer or allow such dog 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 dog under the following
conditions:
(1)
The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately remove all feces
deposited by such dog by any sanitary method approved by the local
Health Authority.
(2)
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be
disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any dog curbed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter,
in a sanitary manner approved by the local Health Authority.
Any dog found at large within the Borough shall be taken into
custody and impounded, or caused to be taken into custody and impounded
by the Board of Health, or any person authorized by it and acting
on its behalf.
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 of the owner, or the person keeping or harboring
said dog is known, the Board of Health, or any person authorized by
it and acting on its behalf, shall forthwith serve on the person whose
address is given on the collar, or the owner or persons keeping or
harboring said dog, if known, a notice in writing stating that the
dog has been seized and that it will be liable to be disposed of or
destroyed if not claimed within seven days after the service of the
notice.
The 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.
When any dog so seized has been detained for seven days after
notice, where notice can be given, as set forth above, or has been
detained for seven days after seizure, when no notice has been given
as set forth above, and if the owner or person keeping or harboring
said dog has not claimed said dog and paid all expenses incurred by
reason of its detention, including maintenance, and if the dog be
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 Board of Health, or any person authorized by
it in that behalf, may cause the dog to be destroyed in a manner causing
as little pain as possible.
Any vicious dog found at large or any dog which shows definite
signs of having been infected with rabies may be destroyed immediately
by any police officer, Health Officer or other person authorized by
and acting on behalf of the Board of Health.
A.
The Board of Health of the Borough shall be responsible for all dogs
impounded or taken into custody under the provisions of this chapter
or state statutes and shall designate the place where such dogs are
to be impounded or held in custody.
B.
Except for the issuance of dog licenses, which, shall be done by
the Borough Clerk, this chapter shall be enforced by the Board of
Health of the Borough. However, nothing herein shall be deemed to
prohibit any Police Officer of the Borough from enforcing any provisions
hereof.
