[N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.1]
As used in this Article:
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.
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog shall include
every person having a right of property in that dog and every person
who has that dog in his keeping, and when applied to the proprietorship
of any other animal, including, but not limited to, a cat, shall include
every person having a right of property in that animal and every person
who has that animal in his keeping.
[2002 Code § 6.04.070; Ord. No.
2007-6; New; Ord. No. 2008-03 § II; Ord. No. 2008-18; amended 12-19-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-18]
a.
Every dog shall be duly licensed in accordance with N.J.S.A. 4:19-15 et seq. and shall bear evidence of such license at all times. The annual fee for such license shall be $15 for each spayed or neutered dog. The annual license fee for each nonspayed or nonneutered dog shall be $20. Persons who fail to obtain a license within the time period specified will be subject to a delinquent fee of $5 per month. (Fees restated in subsection 2-56.1, Fee Schedule.)
b.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-16 et seq. and N.J.S.A. 4:19-31, the annual
license fee for a potentially dangerous dog shall be $150.
[2002 Code § 6.04.070; New]
a.
Applications for licenses for dogs which are required to be licensed
shall be made before the last day of January of each year. In all
other cases, the application for a license shall be made within 10
days of the date upon which the dog in question first becomes subject
to the provision of this section.
b.
The license and registration shall expire on January 31 of the year
following the year in which it was issued.
[New]
Licenses shall be required for the following dogs of licensing
age:
a.
Dogs owned and kept within the Borough on the first day of January
of any calendar year.
b.
Any dog acquired by any person during the course of any calendar
year and kept within the Borough for more than 10 days after acquisition.
c.
Any dog attaining licensing age during the course of the calendar
year.
d.
Any unlicensed dog brought into the Borough by any person and kept
within the Borough for more than 10 days.
e.
Any dog licensed by another state, brought into the Borough by any
person and kept within the Borough for more than 90 days.
[N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.3]
Only one license and registration tag shall be required in any
licensing year for any dog owned in New Jersey, and the license and
tag issued by any other municipality of this State shall be accepted
by the Borough as evidence of compliance with this section.
[N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.3]
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.
[N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.2a]
No Municipal Clerk or other official designated by the Governing
Body shall grant any such license and official metal registration
tag for any dog unless the owner thereof provides evidence that the
dog to be licensed and registered has been inoculated with a rabies
vaccine of a type approved by and administered in accordance with
the recommendations of the United States Department of Agriculture
and the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
or has been certified exempt as provided by regulations of the State
Department of Health. Such vaccination shall be repeated at intervals
as provided by regulations of the State Department of Health, and
shall be administered by a duly licensed veterinarian or by such other
veterinarian permitted by law to do the same. The State Department
of Health shall promulgate regulations providing for the recognized
duration of immunity, interval of inoculation, certificate of vaccination,
certificate of exemption, and such other matters related to this act.
[N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.19; Ord. No. 2008-10]
Any person who violates or who fails or refuses to comply with
N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.2, Dogs; license and metal registration tag required;
placing tag on dog, N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.4, Time for applying for license;
N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.6, Dogs brought into State; N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.7, Removing
tag from dog without owner's consent; attaching tag to another dog;
N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.8, License for kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound;
N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.10, Kennels, pet shops, shelters or pounds; permitting
dogs to go off premises; and N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.18, Interfering with
persons performing duties under act, or the rules and regulations
promulgated by the State Department of Health pursuant to N.J.S.A.
4:19-15.14, shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for each offense.
[2002 Code § 6.04.010]
No dog shall run at large at any time in this Borough.
[2002 Code § 6.04.020; Ord. No.
2008-10]
Any dog off the premises of the person owning, keeping or harboring
it shall be accompanied by a person who is capable of controlling
it and who has the dog securely confined and controlled by an adequate
leash not more than six feet long. Notwithstanding the aforesaid,
dogs shall be prohibited from playground areas and marked athletic
fields and courts.
[2002 Code § 6.04.040]
No person owning or having the case, custody or control of any
dog shall suffer or permit it to soil or defile, or to do any injury
or damage to, any lawn, shrubbery, flowers, grounds, trees, or any
property of persons other than the owner or person having the care,
custody or control of such dog.
[2002 Code § 6.04.06]
The owner or custodian of any dog shall be responsible for any
damage done by such dog.
[2002 Code § 6.04.05; 2002 Code Title 3]
[Ord. No. 2008-10; New]
