Any person desiring to keep fowl, swine, cows or goats within the City of Perth Amboy shall, before keeping the same, apply to the Division of Health in writing, stating the location of the enclosure in which it is proposed to keep the said fowl, swine, cows or goats and the approximate number which is to be kept in said enclosure; and no person shall keep the said fowl, swine, cows or goats unless petition is favorably acted upon by the Division of Health and a permit in writing is granted by said Division.
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to keep fowl shall secure a permit from the Division of Health, and no building, yard or apartment in which fowl are continuously kept shall be built or maintained within twenty-five (25) feet of any door or window of any dwelling.
Any fowl, swine, cow, goat or any other animal having any contagious or communicable disease shall be promptly destroyed by the owner or person in possession thereof.
No goat pen, chicken coop, runway, yard or other place for the keeping of any goat, chicken, duck, goose or other fowl shall be maintained or suffered to exist or permitted nearer than twenty-five (25) feet to any building used in whole or in part as a place of human habitation or as a place where food is prepared, placed, kept or sold, except that fowl for the purpose of sale or killing may be kept in crates, provided:
A. 
Every such crate shall be maintained in a cleanly condition.
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Every such crate shall be kept upon a watertight floor or pavement that is thoroughly flushed with water daily.
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No crate containing or used to contain live fowl shall be kept in the same room in which food other than live fowl is prepared, placed, kept or sold.
No stable, pen, coop, runway or any other place for the keeping of any horse, mule, donkey, bovine, goat, chicken, duck, goose or other fowl shall exist or be permitted to exist unless such stable, pen, coop, runway or other place is maintained in a clean condition, free from any accumulation of filth, garbage, rubbish or other waste.
Every owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of any stable or apartment in which any horse, cattle, swine or fowl shall be kept or any place in which any manure or any solid or liquid discharge or excrement may collect or accumulate shall at all times keep or cause to be kept such stalls or apartments and the drainage yard and appurtenances thereof in a cleanly, healthful and wholesome condition. In all cases in which the Division of Health shall by written notice so require, all manure or excrement shall be removed from all stables and premises where it may accumulate as often as deemed necessary by the Division of Health.
Every stable or apartment in which any horse or other cattle shall be kept shall be provided with a properly covered manure vault or other receptacle of sufficient capacity to care for all manure that may accumulate in such stable or apartment. No manure vault or other receptacle used for the storage of stable manure shall be directly connected with any sewer, nor shall the drainage from any other stable or other building be emptied into said manure vault or other receptacle. Said manure vault or other receptacle shall be kept dry and shall be kept protected from sun, rain, snow and all other conditions which tend to produce wetness and offensive decomposition of manure stored within. Said manure vault or other receptacle for the storage of stable manure shall not be built or maintained within five (5) feet of any party line, within twenty (20) feet of any street line nor within forty (40) feet of any door or window of any dwelling house or other building, factory, etc., used by man, unless otherwise permitted by the Division of Health.
Every stable or apartment hereafter constructed or reconstructed in the City of Perth Amboy in which any horse, mule or cow is kept or stabled shall be so constructed or reconstructed and drained that no fluid excrement or refuse liquids shall flow upon or into the ground.
The floors of all such stables or apartments shall be constructed of concrete or other material impervious to water not less than six (6) inches in thickness and so graded that all fluid excrement will flow to a trapped sewer connection.
No refuse liquids nor any fluid excrement shall fall upon or flow or soak into the ground beneath or adjoining any stable or apartment which is already erected in the City of Perth Amboy and in which any horse, mule or cow may be kept or stabled.
Whenever the floor of such stable or apartment is not watertight and is not graded and drained in accordance with the requirements of this section, then the owner, lessee, tenant or occupant of every such stable or apartment shall, within thirty (30) days after receiving notice from the Division of Health, cause the floor of such stable or apartment to be relaid in conformity with the requirements and specifications of this section.
[Amended 12-22-47 by Ord. No C-377]
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The slaughtering, killing or dressing of cattle, swine or sheep shall not be allowed within the limits of the City of Perth Amboy, excepting at regularly authorized slaughterhouses, without a permit for the purpose from the Division of Health; and no slaughterhouse or other place where cattle, sheep or swine are slaughtered, killed or dressed shall be allowed within this city unless a permit for the purpose shall be granted by the Division. The permit fee shall be two hundred dollars ($200) per annum and such permit shall be effective from the first day of January to the last day of December of each year.
B. 
Slaughtering, killing or dressing of fowl shall not be allowed within the limits of the City of Perth Amboy, excepting at regularly authorized slaughterhouses, without a permit from the Division of Health, and no slaughterhouse or other place where fowl are slaughtered, killed or dressed shall be allowed within the city unless a permit for that purpose shall be granted by the Division. The permit fee shall be two hundred dollars ($200) per annum and such permit shall be effective from the first day of January to the last day of December of each year.
[Amended 7-14-2010 by Ord. No. 1519-2010]
No cattle, sheep or swine shall be killed for human food unless such cattle, sheep or swine shall have passed an examination by the Food Inspector or some other person designated by the Division of Health, and no viscera shall be removed from any slaughtered animal except in the presence of the said Inspector or person designated by the Division. No calf which shall be less than four (4) weeks old, no pigs which shall be less than five (5) weeks old and no lamb which shall be less than eight (8) weeks old shall be killed for human food or shall be kept or offered for sale or sold to be killed for human food.
It shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale or hold for the purpose of sale the flesh of any cattle, sheep or swine which does not bear the stamp of federal or state inspection or the stamp of inspection of the Division of Health of Perth Amboy or of a municipality maintaining the same standard of regulation as to purity and quality as the City of Perth Amboy.
No cattle, sheep or swine shall be slaughtered at any time other than between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on each day, Sunday excepted, except by special permit of the Division of Health.
All offal and viscera of slaughtered animals, together with condemned animals, shall be kept in a separate refrigerated room, the temperature being maintained not higher than fifty degrees Fahrenheit (50° F.).