[Adopted 6-13-1966 by Ord. No. 66-4]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Includes all cats over the age of six months.
A house, apartment, store or other building, whether or not
used or designated for use as a dwelling.
The immediate family group occupying one dwelling unit.
[Amended 8-9-2004 by Ord.
No. 2004-13]
A.
It shall be unlawful to own, harbor or maintain a cat of more than
six months of age unless the owner thereof or the person or persons
harboring or maintaining the same shall have a valid or subsisting
license for such cat.
C.
Said license shall not be transferable to a cat other than the one
for which said license was originally issued.
D.
All licenses shall expire on the first day of July each year.
E.
The Borough Clerk shall keep a record book showing the names of owners,
custodians or harborers of cats, the description of each cat so owned
or harbored, date of the issuance of the license and the amount of
the fee therefor, which fees shall be deposited into the general funds
of the Borough of Neptune City.
A.
No more than three cats shall be sheltered or kept by any one family
group.
B.
No cat shall be sheltered or kept that is not domesticated.
C.
The quarters where cats are kept shall be clean and sanitary and
such as not to create a health hazard nor disturbances by reason of
noise, odor or other causes.
A.
The Chief of Police of the Borough of Neptune City, any police officer
designated for that purpose by the Chief of Police, the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and/or any similar organization
designated by said Borough of Neptune City shall take into custody
and impound or cause to be taken into custody or impounded, and thereafter
destroyed or disposed of as provided for in this Article:
(1)
Any cat off the premises of the owner or of the person keeping or
harboring said cat which said official or his agent or agents have
reason to believe is a stray cat.
(2)
Any female cat in season off the premises of the owner or of the
person keeping or harboring said cat.
(3)
Any cat which, upon complaint by one or more residents, shall be
bothering, disturbing or causing a nuisance to said resident or residents.
B.
If any cat so seized wears a collar or harness having inscribed thereon
or attached thereto the name and address of any person or registration
tag of the owner or the person keeping or harboring said cat is known,
the Chief of Police shall forthwith serve on the person whose address
is given on the collar or on the owner or the person keeping or harboring
said cat, if known, a notice, in writing, stating that the cat has
been seized and will be liable to be disposed of or destroyed if not
claimed within seven days after the service of the notice.
C.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to require the placing of
a collar on any cat.
When any cat so seized has been detained for seven days after notice, which notice can be given as set forth in Section 43-31, or has been detained for seven days after seizure, when notice has not been and cannot be given as set forth in Section 43-31, and if the owner or person keeping or harboring said cat has not claimed said cat and paid all expenses incurred by reason of its seizure and detention, including maintenance at the prevailing rates charged per day, and if the cat is unlicensed at the time of the seizure and the owner or person keeping or harboring said cat has not claimed nor produced a license for said cat and paid for its seizure, detention and maintenance as above set forth, the said Chief of Police and/or the Society for the Preservation of Cruelty to Animals and/or any similar organization and/or any person designated for that purpose may cause said cat to be destroyed in a humane manner, causing as little pain as possible.
A notice under this Article 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 place of abode, or to the address
given on the collar.
[Added 11-23-1992 by Ord.
No. 1992-17; amended 3-27-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-04]
A.
No person who owns, keeps, harbors or maintains any cat shall permit
or suffer it to do any damage to any person, fowl or domestic animal,
or permit or suffer it to do any damage to or to soil or defile any
lawn, shrubbery, garden, flowers, grounds or property of any person
other than the person owning, keeping, harboring or maintaining such
cat.
B.
The Borough Council may revoke any license if the person holding
the license refuses or fails to comply with this Article, the regulations
promulgated by the Borough Council or any state or local law governing
cruelty to animals or the keeping of animals. Any person whose license
is revoked shall, within 10 days thereafter, humanely dispose of all
animals being owned, kept or harbored by such person, and no part
of the license fee shall be refunded.[1]
