[Ord. 5/13/48, § 1; Ord. 7/24/67]
As used in this section:
a.
DOG - Shall mean any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
b.
DOG OF LICENSING AGE - Shall mean any dog which has attained the
age of seven months or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
c.
KENNEL - Shall mean any establishment wherein or whereon the business
of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on,
except a pet shop.
d.
PET SHOP - Shall mean any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition
pen, not part of a kennel, wherein dogs for sale are kept or displayed.
e.
POUND - Shall mean an establishment for the confinement of dogs seized
either under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise.
f.
SHELTER - Shall mean any establishment where dogs are received, housed
and distributed without charge.
g.
OWNER when applied to the proprietorship of a dog - Shall mean and
include every person having a right of property in such dog and every
person who has such dog in his keeping.
h.
The words "and" and "or" may be used interchangeably, and either
of the two may be applicable, whichever is more conducive towards
the effectuating of this chapter.
i.
PERSONAL PRONOUNS - Shall mean either the singular or the plural,
whichever is applicable and conducive towards the effectuating of
this chapter.
j.
The masculine, feminine or the neuter gender shall be implied, whichever
is appropriate and conducive for the effectuating of this chapter.
k.
VICIOUS DOG - Shall mean any dog which has attacked or bitten a human
being upon property not the property of the person owning, keeping
or harboring such dog or which attacks other dogs or domestic animals
upon property not the property of the person owning, keeping or harboring
such dog.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 2]
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing
age in the Borough shall in the month of January in each and every
year 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.
[Ord. 12/8/66; Ord. 8/9/79; Ord. 9/24/81; Ord. 9/27/90, § 1; Ord. 2/2/06, § 1; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1; Ord. No. 16-006G § 3]
a.
Each and every dog shall be duly licensed and shall bear evidence
of such license at all times, in accordance with the laws of the State
of New Jersey. The annual fee for such license shall be set annually
by Borough Council resolution for each neutered or spayed dog (evidenced
by a veterinarian's certification) or nonneutered and nonspayed
dogs. Fees collected by the Borough shall include all State fees and
take effect on January 1, 2009. Said licenses and renewals thereof
shall expire on the last day of January in each year. A late fee of
$5 shall be assessed each month on all license renewals issued to
a dog owner after the expiration date of January 31.
b.
The fee to license a "potentially dangerous dog" or a "vicious dog"
shall be $700 annually.
[Ord. 12/8/66; Ord. 9/27/90, § 2]
The owner of any dog may, if a license tag is mislaid, stolen
or lost, procure a duplicate tag upon the payment of an additional
one ($1.00) dollar.
[Ord. 12/8/66]
Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as
"seeing eye," "service dogs" and "hearing dogs" shall be licensed
and registered as other dogs hereinabove provided for, except that
the owner or keeper of such dogs shall not be required to pay any
fee therefor.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 4]
No license to own, keep or harbor a dog in the Borough shall
be issued to or in the name of the minor.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 5]
The owner of any newly-acquired dog of licensing age or of any
dog which attains licensing age shall make application for license
and registration tag for such dog within 10 days after such acquisition
or age attainment.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 6]
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. The information on the application and the registration
number issued for the dog shall be preserved for a period of three
years by the Borough Clerk. In addition, he shall forward similar
information to the State department of health on forms furnished by
the department. Registration numbers shall be issued in the order
of the application.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 7]
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Borough any dog licensed in any other State for the current year and bearing a registration tag 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 for each such dog unless such dog be licensed under section 5-3.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 7]
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this Borough any unlicensed 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 for each such dog unless such dog be licensed under Section 5-3.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 8]
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.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 9]
Any person who keeps or operates or proposes to establish a
kennel, a pet shop, a shelter or a pound shall apply to the Borough
Clerk for a license entitling him to keep or operate such establishment.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 9]
The application shall describe the premises where the establishment
is located or is proposed to be located, the purpose or purposes for
which it is to be maintained, and shall be accompanied by the written
approval of the Chief of Police or other person or persons, appointed
by the Mayor and Borough Council enforce the provisions of this chapter
and by the written approval of the health officer of the Board of
Health of the Borough showing compliance with the Borough and State
rules and regulations governing location of and sanitation at such
establishments.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 9]
All licenses issued for a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound
shall state the purpose for which the establishment is maintained
and all such licenses shall expire on January 31 of each year, and
be subject to revocation by the Borough on recommendations of the
State Department of Health or the Board of Health of the Borough for
failure to comply with the rules and regulations of the State Department
of Health or Board of Health of the Borough after the owner has been
afforded a hearing by either the State Department of Health or the
Board of Health of the Borough.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 9]
Any person holding such license shall not be required to secure
individual licenses for dogs owned by such licensee and kept at such
establishments; such licenses shall not be transferable to another
owner or different premises.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 10; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
The annual license fee for a kennel providing accommodations
for 10 or less dogs shall be $10 and for more than 10 dogs $25. The
annual license fee for a pet shop shall be $10. No fee shall be charged
for a shelter or pound.
[1]
Editor's Note: License fees for kennels and pet shops
are established by N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.9.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 11]
No dog kept in a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall be
permitted off such premises, except on leash or in a crate or other
safe control.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 12; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
License fees and other moneys collected or received under the provisions of subsections 5-2.2, 5-3.1, 5-3.5 and 5-8.1 except registration tag fees, shall be forwarded to the Chief Financial Officer of the Borough within 48 hours after collection or receipt and shall be placed in a special account separate from any of the other accounts of the Borough and which shall be used for the following purposes only: for collecting, keeping and disposing of dogs liable to seizure under this chapter; for local prevention and control of rabies; for providing anti-rabies treatment under the direction of the Borough Board of Health for any person known or suspected to have been exposed to rabies; for payment of damage to or losses of poultry and domestic animals, except dogs and cats, caused by a dog or dogs and for administering the provisions of this chapter. Any unexpended balance remaining in such special account shall be retained therein until the end of the third (3rd) fiscal year following and may
be used for any of the purposes set forth in this section. At the
end of the said third (3rd) fiscal year following, and at the end
of each fiscal year thereafter, there shall be transferred from such
special account to the general funds of the Borough any amount then
in such account which is in excess of the total amount paid into said
special account during the last two fiscal years next preceding.
The registration tag fee for each dog shall be forwarded within
30 days after collection by the Municipal Clerk to the State Department
of Health.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 13]
The Borough Clerk shall forward to the State Department of Health
a list of all kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds licensed within
30 days after the licenses therefor are issued, which list shall include
the name and address of each licensee and the kind of license issued.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 14; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
The Chief of Police of the Borough, or any person appointed
for that purpose by the Borough Council, shall promptly after February
1 of each year, and bi-annually thereafter, cause a canvass to be
made of all dogs, owned, kept or harbored within the limits of the
Borough and shall report to the Municipal Clerk, the Board of Health
of the Borough, 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 dogs, the number of licensed dogs
owned, kept or harbored by each of these persons together with the
registration numbers of each of the dogs, and the number of unlicensed
dogs owned, kept or harbored by each of these persons, together with
a complete description of each of the licensed dogs.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 15]
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police of the Borough or
any person appointed by the Borough Council for that purpose, to enforce
the provisions of this section.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 16
& § 17; Ord. 12/13/56; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
The Chief of Police of the Borough, or any person appointed
for the purpose by the Borough Council shall take into custody and
impound or cause to be taken into custody and impounded, and thereafter
destroyed or disposed of as provided in this section:
a.
Any dog off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or
harboring said dog and not under control as provided.
b.
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;
c.
Any female dog in season off the premises of the owner or of the
person keeping or harboring said dog.
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 the person keeping or harboring
the dog is known, the Chief of Police, 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 the person keeping or harboring
the 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 days after the service of 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.
When any dog so seized has been detained for seven days after
notice, when notice can be given as above set forth, or has been detained
for seven days after seizure, when no notice has been given as above
set forth 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 not exceeding the rate charged
by Monmouth County S.P.C.A. per day, 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 aforesaid Chief of Police, or any person authorized by him
in that behalf, may cause the dog to be destroyed in manner causing
as little pain as possible.
Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any
duty under this chapter is hereby authorized to go upon any premises
to seize for impounding any dog or dogs which he may lawfully seize
and impound when such officer is in immediate pursuit of such dog
or dogs, except upon the premises of the owner of the dog if said
owner is present and forbids the same.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 18]
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this act.
[Ord. 6/28/73]
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any dog which barks
or cries so as to disturb the public peace.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 20]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any female dog shall
suffer or permit the same to run at large on private property not
the property of such person, or upon the public streets or other public
places of the Borough while the female dog is in season, or for the
five days immediately following thereafter.
[Ord. 12/13/56]
a.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit
the same to run at large anywhere in the Borough except upon the property
of the person owning, keeping or harboring the dog.
b.
Any dog off the premises of the person owning, keeping or harboring
the same shall be accompanied by a person capable of controlling it
and who has the dog upon a leash not exceeding six feet in length
or in a crate or otherwise securely confined.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 22]
The Police Committee of the Borough may, at any time when in
their judgment the public safety demands it, order by public notice
the muzzling of all dogs running at large in the Borough with a secure
muzzle for any period not exceeding 90 days.
[Ord. 5/13/48, § 23]
No person owning, keeping or harboring a dog shall permit the
same or suffer it to do any injury, or to do any damage to any lawn,
shrubbery, flowers, grounds or property.
[Ord. 5/22/80, § 1; Ord. 9/26/91, § 1]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall take or
walk such dog or suffer or permit such dog to be upon any public playground,
school yard, public park or other public recreation area, except that
persons shall be permitted to walk their licensed and leashed dogs
on the Borough right-of-way, provided that the person owning, keeping
or harboring the dog immediately removes any deposit left by the dog.
In addition, persons shall be permitted to walk their dogs at
the Borough launching ramp property, provided that the dog is licensed,
is on a leash and the person with the dog has some form of pooper
scooper with him and is responsible for the immediate removal of any
deposit left by the dog.
[Ord. 7/27/67; Ord. 4/24/03, § 1]
No person owning, keeping or harboring any vicious dog shall
suffer the same to run at large anywhere in the Borough except upon
the property of the person owning, keeping or harboring such vicious
dog. Any vicious dog off the property of the person owning, keeping
or harboring the same shall be accompanied by a person capable of
controlling it and who has the dog securely upon a leash not exceeding
six feet in length or in a crate or otherwise securely confined.
[Ord. 10/7/93, § 2]
a.
No person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog
shall permit such dog to soil or defile or to commit any nuisance
upon any sidewalk, gutter, street, thoroughfare, park, in or upon
any public property or in or upon the property of persons other than
the owner or person having the care, custody and control of such dog.
b.
No person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog
shall suffer or permit it to soil or defile or 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.
c.
It shall be the duty of any person owning or having the care, custody
or control of any dog to immediately remove any feces left by such
dog on any sidewalk, gutter, street, thoroughfare, park or other public
area or private property not his own.
[Ord. 7/27/67; Ord. 5/24/79; Ord. 6/26/86; Ord. 2/27/92, §§ 1,
2; Ord. 10/7/93, § 3; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1; Ord. No. 13-009G; Ord.
No. 16-006G § 3]
a.
Unless a specific penalty is provided by statute, any person(s), firm(s) or corporation(s) who violates or neglects to comply with any provisions of this section or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto (except subsection 5-8.5 as stated below), or who violates or refuses to comply with the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Department of Health pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.14 governing the sanitary conduct and operation of kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds to preserve sanitation therein and prevent the spread of rabies and other diseases of dogs within and from such establishments shall be subject to the penalty as stated in Chapter 3, Section 3-1.
b.
Any person who violates or refuses to comply with the provisions of subsection 5-8.5 shall be subject to the following fines and costs upon conviction thereof:
|
Offense and Conviction
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Fine
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|---|---|
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1st
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$25.00
|
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2nd
|
$50.00
|
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3rd
|
$50.00 and mandatory court appearance of licensee
|
|
4th
|
$75.00 and mandatory court appearance of licensee
|
|
5th
|
$100.00 and mandatory court appearance of licensee
|
|
6th
|
$200.00 and mandatory court appearance of licensee
|
All fines after the sixth (6th) violation shall require a mandatory court appearance of licensee and all fines imposed shall be at the discretion of the Municipal Judge, which shall not exceed $2,000 as stated in Chapter 3, Section 3-1. If a period of two years elapses between violations all previous violations will be eliminated from the record.
c.
In the event an animal is transported to the Monmouth County S.P.C.A.
or other approved agency by the Rumson Animal Control Officer, the
owner of the animal shall, in addition to the above listed penalties,
pay to the Borough of Rumson the sum of $75 per animal, plus $50 per
animal for transportation costs, at the time the animal is returned
to the owners. The owner shall also reimburse the Borough of Rumson
for fees paid to the Monmouth County S.P.C.A. or other approved facility.
[Ord. 6/4/1908; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
No animals, including, but not limited to, horses, mules, cattle,
sheep, goat or swine shall be allowed to run at large within the limits
of this Borough and it is hereby made the duty of the Police Officers
of the Borough to cause all such animals found running at large to
be immediately placed in the public pound.
[Ord. 6/4/08]
Any and all animals impounded as aforesaid, shall after the
expiration of three days from the date of such impounding, upon five
days written notice to the owner thereof, be sold at public auction,
or if the owner is unknown then upon a notice published for the space
of one week in a newspaper published in the County of Monmouth and
circulated in this Borough and the proceeds of such sale shall be
applied to the payment of the costs of impounding and the expense
of the sale and the balance, if any remaining, shall be paid over
to the owner of the animal impounded and sold.
[Ord. 6/4/08]
The owner of any animal impounded as aforesaid may at any time
before the sale thereof redeem the same upon payment of all fees and
costs of said impounding and expenses incurred under this section.
[Ord. 6/4/1908; Ord. No. 08-016G, § 1]
The pound keeper for his services and expenses shall receive
the sum of $25 for each and every day such animal shall remain impounded
and for the sale thereof the sum of $25 exclusive of cost.
[Ord. 9/27/90, § 3]
a.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Rumson find and declare that
certain dogs are an increasingly serious and widespread threat to
the safety and welfare of citizens of the Borough by virtue of their
unprovoked attacks on, and associated injury to, individuals and other
animals; that these attacks are in part attributable to the failure
of owners to confine and properly train and control these dogs; that
existing laws at the local level inadequately address this problem;
and that it is therefore appropriate and necessary to impose a uniform
set of State requirements on the owners of vicious or potentially
dangerous dogs.
b.
Accordingly, all the terms and provisions of R.S.4:19-18 et seq. are adopted in their entirety and shall apply to all dogs licensed in the Borough of Rumson or owned by residents of the Borough of Rumson and any provisions of Section 5-8 of Chapter 5 of the Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Rumson inconsistent therewith are accordingly amended.
[Ord. 5/9/91, § 1; Ord. No. 13-009G]
a.
Vaccination Requirement. No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain
any cat which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses
a set of permanent teeth within the Borough of Rumson, unless such
cat is vaccinated for rabies. The provisions of this section do not
apply to cats held by a State or Federal licensed research facility,
or a veterinary establishment where cats are received or kept for
diagnostic, medical, surgical, or other treatments, or licensed animal
shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.
b.
Vaccination. All cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed
veterinarian in accordance with the latest "Compendium of Animal Rabies
Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization" published by the National
Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, except as provided
for in paragraph d.
c.
Vaccination Certificate. A certificate of vaccination shall be issued
to the person owning, keeping or harboring each cat vaccinated on
a form recommended by the State. Such certificate shall be retained
by the person owning, keeping or harboring each cat for as long as
the cat remains in the possession of such person and said certificate
shall be shown on the demand of the Rumson Police Department or the
Rumson Board of Health.
d.
Exemptions. Any cat may be exempted from the requirements of such
vaccination for a specified period of time by the animal control authority,
upon presentation of a veterinarian's certificate stating that
because of an infirmity or other physical conditions, or regimen of
therapy, the inoculation of such cat shall be deemed inadvisable.
[Ord. No. 13-009G]
The feeding of wild (feral) cats shall be prohibited.
