The Public Health Coordinator and legal counsel of the Ocean
County Board of Health are hereby determined to be the representatives
of the Borough of Pine Beach for the purpose of conducting hearings
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., with the Public Health Coordinator
to be responsible for the appointment of members of the panel who
shall conduct such hearings and with the attorney for the Ocean County
Board of Health to serve as legal counsel for said panel.
All costs associated with the hearing and billed by the Ocean
County Board of Health to the Borough of Pine Beach shall be reimbursed
to the borough by the owner of the dog. Included among those costs
shall be a maximum fee of $100 to each panel member utilized in the
conduct of the hearings.
The owner of a potentially dangerous dog who is found by a preponderance
of the evidence to have violated the Act, (See N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et
seq., the Vicious Dog Act) or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant
thereto or to have failed to comply with a panel's order shall
be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 per day of the violation,
and each day's continuance of the violation shall constitute
a separate and distinct violation, with the Municipal Court having
jurisdiction to enforce this section. In addition, an Animal Control
Officer is authorized to seize and impound any potentially dangerous
dog whose owner fails to comply with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:19-17
et seq., or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, or a
panel's order. The Municipal Court may order that the dog so
seized and impounded be destroyed in an expeditious and humane manner.
The owner of any potentially dangerous dog shall obtain from
the Borough of Pine Beach a potentially dangerous dog registration
number and identification tag along with a municipal potentially dangerous
dog license upon presentation of sufficient evidence by the owner
to the Animal Control Officer that he has complied with the panel's
orders. The fee for the potentially dangerous dog license and each
renewal thereof shall be $700.