[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.1]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Shall mean any member of the domestic feline species: male,
female or altered.
Shall mean any cat which has attained the age of six months.
Shall mean a room, group of rooms, cage, exhibition pen or
kennel where cats are kept for organized shows, breeding for exhibition,
for sale or display.
Shall mean any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
Shall mean any dog which has attained the age of seven months
or which possess a set of permanent teeth.
Shall mean maintaining custody, possession or control over
a cat or permitting a cat to remain on premises or providing shelter
or food.
Shall mean any properly licensed and appropriately zoned
establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding or selling
more than two dogs or cats or breeding more than two dogs or cats
for sale is carried on, except a pet shop.
Shall mean the agency or department of the Borough of Pine
Hill or any designated representative thereof charged with administering
the issuance and/or revocation of permits and licenses under the provisions
of this section.
Shall mean rendered permanently incapable of reproduction
as certified by a licensed veterinarian.
Shall include every person having a right of property (or
custody) in a dog or cat and every person who has such dog or cat
in his/her keeping, possession or control or who harbors or maintains
a dog or cat or knowingly permits a dog or cat to remain on or about
any premises occupied by the owner. The owner must be at least 18
years of age, a parent or legal guardian shall become co-owner of
the dog or cat and assume full responsibility, in lieu of the minor,
in order to comply with the provisions in this chapter, which include
obtaining a license under the name or names of either the parent or
guardian or under both the parent or guardian and minor.
Shall mean any properly licensed and appropriately zoned
retail establishment where the sale of domesticated animals and supplied
therefore is the primary business.
See the definition of harboring.
Shall mean an establishment for the confinement of dogs or
other animals seized either under the provisions of this act or otherwise.
Shall mean a dog or cat that damages or harms persons, public
or private property.
Shall mean a dog or cat having no known owner or custodian
or known place of care and shelter.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.2]
Hereafter, each and every person owning, harboring, keeping
or having charge of any animal as described in this chapter or any
other chapter of the Code of the Borough of Pine Hill shall:
a.
Be
prohibited from owning, harboring, keeping or having charge of more
than two of any type of animal described in this or any other chapter
of the Code of the Borough of Pine Hill or more than a total of six
of any combination thereof, except for kennels and pet shops.
b.
Be
prohibited from constructing any building, shed, hutch, barn, stable,
pigeon coop, doghouse or any other such housing structure for the
keeping or harboring of any such animal described in this chapter
or any other chapter of the Code of the Borough of Pine Hill, which
has as its purpose the accommodation of more than two of any type
of such animal and which exceeds the reasonable space requirement
to accommodate more than two of such type of animal, except for kennels
and pet shops.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.3a]
No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any dog or cat
over six months of age within the Borough of Pine Hill unless such
cat or dog is vaccinated and licensed. All dogs or cats as defined
must be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance
with the guidelines of the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines
and Recommendations for Immunization, published by the National Association
of State Public Health Veterinarians, or as otherwise required by
the terms of this Ordinance of the appropriate departments of the
State of New Jersey.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.3b]
A certificate of vaccination shall be issued to the owner of
each vaccinated cat or dog, on a form recommended by the State of
New Jersey. It shall be the duty of every veterinarian, at the time
of vaccinating the cat or dog, to provide a copy of the rabies vaccination
certificate as set forth herein.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.4]
Licenses must be procured for all cats or dogs over the age
of six months. Application for such license shall be made to the Animal
Control Officer, and the following information, including presentation
of a valid rabies certificate showing that the cat has been immunized
for rabies shall be furnished.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.5]
Each person owning or possessing any cat or dog is obligated
to make certain that said cat or dog bears identification, either
by collar, tag, harness or other suitable means. The rabies vaccination
tag must be attached to and made a part of the identification.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6a]
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a cat or dog of licensing
age shall annually apply for the procure from the Animal Control Officer
of the Borough or other official designated by the governing body
license cats and dogs, a license and official registration tag with
license number or a registration sleeve for each cat or dog so owned,
kept or harbored and shall place upon such cat or dog a collar or
other device with the license number securely fastened or displayed
thereto. Acceptable methods of displaying the license number shall
include, but are not limited to, breakaway or elastic collars. License
tags or sleeves are not transferable.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6b]
The owner of any newly acquired cat or dog of licensing age
or of any cat or dog which attains licensing age shall make application
for a license tag or sleeve for such within 10 days after such acquisition
or age attainment. This requirement will not apply to a nonresident
keeping a cat or dog within the Borough of Pine Hill for no longer
than 90 days.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6c]
a.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this Borough
any cat or dog licensed in another state for the current year and
bearing a registration tag or sleeve and shall keep the same or permit
the same to be kept within the Borough for a period of more than 90
days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag or
sleeve for such cat or dog.
b.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this Borough
any unlicensed cat or dog and shall keep the same or permit the same
to be kept within the Borough for a period of more than 10 days shall
immediately apply for a license and registration tag or sleeve for
each such cat or dog.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6d]
License forms and official tags or sleeves shall be furnished
by the municipality and shall be numbered serially and shall bear
the year of issuance and the name of the municipality.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6e]
No official designated by the governing body of the municipality
to license cats or dogs therein shall grant any such license and official
registration tag or sleeve for any cat or dog unless the owner thereof
provides evidence that the cat or dog to be licensed and registered
has been inoculated with an appropriate rabies vaccine.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6f; Ord. No. 2014-911]
A license shall be issued after payment of a fee of $15 for
non-neutered/spayed dogs, $12 for neutered/spayed dogs. The fee for
cats is established at $12 for non-neutered/spayed cats and $9 for
neutered/spayed cats. Persons who fail to obtain a license as required
within the time period specified in this section will be subject to
a delinquent fee of $15 after April 15th of the applicable year.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6g]
a.
The person applying for the license and registration tag and/or sleeve
shall pay the fee fixed or authorized. The fee for the renewal of
a license and registration tag or sleeve shall be the same as for
the original. All licenses shall expire on the 31st day of December
of the calendar year for which issued.
b.
Only one license and registration tag or sleeve shall be required
in the licensing year for each cat or dog. Any valid New Jersey license
tag or sleeve issued by a New Jersey municipality shall be accepted
by this Borough as evidence of compliance.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6h]
If a license tag or sleeve has been misplaced or lost, the Animal
Control Officer shall issue a duplicate license and/or registration
sleeve for that particular dog or cat at a fee of $1.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6i]
Proof of licensing shall be produced by any person owning, keeping,
maintaining or harboring a cat or dog, upon the request of any Health
Official, Police Officer, Animal Control Officer or other authorized
person.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.6j]
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.7a]
Any person who keeps or operates or purposes to establish a
kennel or pet shop shall apply to the Animal Control Officer for a
license entitling him to keep or operate such establishment and any
person holding such license shall not be required to secure individual
license for cats or dogs owned, by such licensee and kept at such
establishment, such licenses shall not be transferable to another
owner or different premises.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 7b]
The annual license fee for a kennel providing accommodations
for 10 or less cats or dogs shall be $10 and for more than 10 cats
or dogs $25. The annual license fee for a pet shop shall be $10. No
fee shall be charged for a pound.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 7c]
The Animal Control Officer shall forward to the State Department
of Health a list of all kennels, pet shops and pounds licensed within
30 days after the licenses thereof are issued, which list shall include
the name and address of the licensee and the kind of license issued.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 7d]
The Animal Control Officer shall annually after February 1st
cause a canvass to be made of all cats or dogs owned, kept or harbored,
within the Borough and shall report 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 such cats or dogs, the number of unlicensed cats or dogs
owned, kept or harbored by each of the persons, together with a complete
list and description of each of the unlicensed cats or dogs.
[Ord. No. 2016-940]
a.
ANIMAL CARE FACILITY
ANIMAL RESCUE ORGANIZATION
CAT
DOG
OFFER FOR SALE
PET SHOP
Definitions.
Shall mean an animal control center or animal shelter, maintained
by or under contract with any state, county, or municipality, whose
mission and practice is, in whole, or significant part, the rescue
and placement of animals in permanent homes or rescue organizations.
Shall mean any not-for-profit organization which has tax-exempt
status under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue
Code, whose mission and practice is, in whole or in significant part,
the rescue and placement of animals in permanent homes.
Shall mean a member of the species of domestic cat, Felis
catus.
Shall mean a member of the species of domestic dog, Canis
familiaris.
Shall mean to sell, offer for sale or adoption, advertise
for the sale of, barter, auction, give away or otherwise dispose of
a dog or cat.
Shall mean a retail establishment where dogs and cats are
sold, exchanged, bartered or offered for sale as pet animals to the
general public at retail. Such definition shall not include an animal
care facility or animal rescue organization, as defined.
b.
Restrictions on the Sale of Animals.
c.
Violations and Penalties.
Upon adoption of this subsection, the County of Camden shall
provide enforcement through the County Department of health and Human
Services.
Any person who violates this subsection shall, upon conviction,
be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 90 days or both. Each day that a violation is permitted
to exist after notice in writing has been served of violation shall
constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 8]
It is hereby declared unlawful for any owner, keeper or harborer
of any female cat or dog to permit such cat or dog to run at large
while in heat, whether or not a valid registration tag is attached.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.9]
Any dog or cat running at large in violation of the provisions
of this chapter is declared to be a public nuisance. Said dog or cat
may be impounded by the appropriate local authorities. All fees as
per Animal Control Officer's contract shall be charged against the
owner of said dog or cat. Failure to pay the fee shall constitute
a separate violation of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.10]
No person shall abandon any dog or cat of any age or permit
a dog or cat to become a stray.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.11]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any cat or 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.
These provisions shall apply to all privately owned property in the
Borough, except the property of owner or keeper of the cat or dog
and the property owned or controlled by persons who have invited or
permitted the owner or keeper of a cat or dog to bring such dog or
cat upon the premises.[1]
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.12]
The Animal Control Officer shall take into custody and impound
and thereafter destroy or dispose of as provided in this chapter any
cat or dog whose owner is in violation of this chapter.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.13]
If any cat or 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 such dog is known the Animal Control Officer, or any person
authorized by him in that behalf, shall serve on the person whose
address is given on the collar or harness, or on the owner of the
person keeping or harboring such cat or dog, if known, in writing
stating that the cat or dog has been seized and shall be liable to
be disposed or destroyed if not claimed within seven days after the
service of the notice.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.14]
No person shall permit a cat or dog owned, kept or harbored,
either licensed or unlicensed, to run at large upon the public sidewalks
or highways, unless attached to a leash and no cat or dog kept in
a kennel, pet shop or pound shall be permitted off the premises wherein
such kennel, pet shop or pound is situated, except attached to a leash
or in a crate or other safe control within the Borough.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.14b]
Each violation of this subsection shall be punishable by a fine
of $30 plus $25 court costs.
[Ord. No. 2008-810 § 6.15]
Whenever a penalty is not proscribed under the NJ Statutes,
the following penalty shall apply: Any person violating any of the
provisions of this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject
to pay a fine of $30 plus $25 court costs.
[Added 7-1-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-980]
a.
Any dog declared by the Borough Municipal Court pursuant to N.J.S.A.
4:19-24 et seq. to be potentially dangerous must apply to the Borough
Municipal Clerk for a special municipal potentially dangerous dog
license, a municipal registration number and a red identification
tag. The owner of such a dog so identified shall, at its expense,
have the registration number placed into the dog by a microchip in
a prominent location. The owner such a dog shall be required to:
1.
Display, in a conspicuous manner, a sign on his premises warning that a potentially dangerous dog is on the premises. The sign shall be visible and legible from 50 feet of the enclosure required pursuant to Subsection a2 of this subsection;
2.
Immediately erect and maintain an enclosure for the potentially dangerous
dog on the property where the potentially dangerous dog will be kept
and maintained, which has sound sides, top and bottom to prevent the
potentially dangerous dog from escaping by climbing, jumping or digging
and within a fence of at least six feet in height separated by at
least three feet from the confined area. The owner of a potentially
dangerous dog shall securely lock the enclosure to prevent the entry
of the general public and to preclude any release or escape of a potentially
dangerous dog by an unknowing child or other person. All potentially
dangerous dogs shall be confined in the enclosure or, if taken out
of the enclosure, securely muzzled and restrained with a tether approved
by the Animal Control Officer and having a minimum tensile strength
sufficiently in excess of that required to restrict the potentially
dangerous dog's movements to a radius of no more than three feet from
the owner and under the direct supervision of the owner.
b.
A dangerous dog license fee shall be assessed to the owner on an
annual basis to the owner of the dog in the amount of $700.
[Added 6-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1031]
As used in this section, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any free roaming feral cat that may be cared for by one or
more residents of the immediate areas and which has no discernible
from of ownership identification.
A person who may provide care including food, water, shelter
or medical care to a community cat. A community cat caregiver shall
be considered to be the owner, custodian, harborer, controller or
keeper of a community cat.
A group of cats that congregate, more or less, together as
a unit.
A cat that is socialized to humans and is appropriate as
a companion for humans.
The removal of the 1/4 inch tip of a community cat's
left ear, performed while the cat is under anesthesia by a licensed
veterinarian and designed to be an indication that the community cat
has been sterilized and vaccinated for rabies.
A cat that:
Disturbing of the peace by a) habitually or continually howling,
crying or screaming, or b) the habitual and significant destruction,
desecration or soiling of property against the wishes of the owner
of the property
Trap, neuter, return.
A program pursuant to which feral and stray cats are trapped,
neutered or spayed, vaccinated against rabies and returned to the
location where they congregate
[Added 6-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1031]
a.
Purpose. To permit implementation of a Community Cat Program (CCP)
in Pine Hill Borough, New Jersey for the purpose of reducing the population
of feral and free roaming cats, benefitting public health, improving
the quality of life for residents and ensuring the humane treatment
of community cats.
b.
Implementation. The Borough's Animal Control contractor, the
Borough Police Department or other representative as designated by
the Borough shall administer and implement the programs set forth
in this section in accordance with applicable guidelines and standards
as set forth in the state and local statutes.
[Added 6-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1031]
a.
The Borough establishes the following community cats' requirements:
1.
Community cats may be cared for on the private property of the caregiver
or upon the property of another with the permission of the owner or
property manager.
2.
All community cat caregivers shall make reasonable efforts to have
all free-roaming cats within their care sterilized, vaccinated against
rabies and ear tipped at their cost for easy identification. Community
cat caregivers shall have 30 days from the time they render care to
a community cat to arrange for sterilization, rabies vaccination and
ear tipping or to be placed on a waiting list if no appointment can
be scheduled within 30 days.
3.
All community cat caregivers are required to make reasonable efforts
to provide certain necessities to each community cat under his/her
care on a regular/ongoing basis, including but not limited to proper
nutrition, adequate quantities of visibly clean and fresh water and
medical care as needed. If medical care is unavailable or too expensive,
the community cat caregiver must not allow the cat to suffer. Feeding
is permitted during daylight hours only. Food must be offered to cats
in a container and shall not be dumped on the ground. Any food remaining
after cats have eaten must be removed before dark. Feeding areas must
be maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.
4.
Community cat caregivers shall make reasonable attempts to remove
young kittens from the field for domestication.
b.
Community cats meeting the requirements of this section are exempt
from any licensing, stray and at-large provisions of this section.
c.
Animal Services or the Police Department shall have the right to
remove or authorize the removal of any free-roaming cat or community
cat because of immediate public health or safety concern. In such
case, a reasonable attempt shall be made to notify the caregiver.
d.
No community cat shall be released at any governmentally owned or
managed park, natural area, area deemed as environmentally sensitive
land or on any easement adjacent to such lands without approval from
the Borough or its representatives.
e.
Trapping of community cats by those who are not community cat caregivers,
as defined above, or an animal control officer employed by the Borough,
or members of law enforcement, is prohibited unless the person trapping
the cats is doing so for the purpose of providing medical attention
for a sick or injured cat or for the purpose of TNR. Persons who trap
free-roaming cats for the purpose of TNR must comply with the provisions
of this section to be considered a "community cat caregiver".
f.
Nuisance abatement and resolution.
1.
A community cat that (a) habitually howls, squawks or causes other
objectionable noise resulting in a serious annoyance to a reasonable
person shall be deemed to be committing an act in violation of this
section; or (b) disturbs the peace by habitually or repeatedly destroying,
desecrating or soiling public or private property shall constitute
a public nuisance. This provision shall not apply to community cats
or caregivers in compliance with paragraph a.
2.
Animal Services and/or the Pine Hill Borough Police Department shall
investigate an alleged violation of this section upon the receipt
of a Sworn Affidavit of complaint in a form provided by Animal Services
and signed by the individual making the complaint and who resides
where the violation occurred or in close vicinity of the alleged violation.
For the enforcement of paragraph f2 herein, the affidavit shall specify
the address or location of the alleged violation, the nature, time
and date(s) of the act, the name and address of the Caregiver, if
known, and a description of the animal, if known.
3.
Animal Services and/or the Pine Hill Borough Police Department, upon
receipt of the sworn Affidavit of Complaint, shall issue a citation
to the Caregiver of any animal alleged to be in violation of the section.
[Added 6-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1031]
The owner of an unneutered domesticated cat shall not permit
the cat to roam off the owner's property unsupervised.
[Added 6-5-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1031]
a.
The Borough through its Enforcement Agencies or Animal Control shall
have the following rights:
1.
The right to seize or remove cats from a colony that have not been
vaccinated against rabies and which are demonstrating signs of disease.
2.
The right to seize/remove a cat from a colony that is creating a
nuisance as defined above and the Caregiver has been given 15 days
to remove and relocate the cat and has failed to do so.
