[Ord. 10/13/64, § 1]
As used in this section:
Shall mean a dog of either sex if over the age of six months.
Shall mean any dog which has attained the age of seven months
or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
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.
Shall mean any person, group of persons or corporation owning,
keeping, maintaining or harboring a dog.
Shall mean an individual, group of individuals, firm, partnership,
corporation or association of persons.
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.
Shall mean an establishment for the confinement of dogs seized
either under the provisions of this section or otherwise.
Shall mean a dog is under restraint if it is on the property
of its owner or is under the immediate and effective control of a
responsible person.
Shall mean any establishment where dogs are received, housed
and distributed without charge.
Shall mean any female dog certified by a licensed veterinarian
to have been spayed.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 2]
Any person who shall own, keep, maintain or harbor a dog of
licensing age shall annually during the month of January, apply for
and procure from the Clerk of the Borough, or other official designated
by the governing body, a license and official registration tag for
each such dog so owned, kept, maintained or harbored, and shall place
upon each such dog a collar or harness with the registration tag securely
fastened thereto.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 3;
Ord. #10-79, § 1; Ord. #1-81, § 1; Ord. #2-84,
§ 1; Ord. #8-95; Ord. No. 2007-11; Ord. No. 2013-02]
a.
The person applying for the license and registration tag shall pay
a fee of $13 in 2014, $15 in 2015, and $18 in 2016 and thereafter
for each dog, which fee is hereby established as the annual license
and registration tag fee. In addition thereto, and in accordance with
P.L. 1983, Chapter 172, if the dog is nonspayed or nonneutered, an
additional fee shall be paid, making the total annual license and
registration tag fee for any dog that is nonspayed or nonneutered
$15 in 2014, $18 in 2015, and $21 in 2016 and thereafter.
Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as
"Seeing Eye" 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.
b.
The licenses and registration tags for all dogs, and renewals thereof,
shall expire on January 31 in each year. To cover the added costs
to the Borough of enforcement and requiring compliance with this section
and with the laws of New Jersey relating to animal census, each license
and registration tag renewed after March 1 of the current year shall
require payment of an additional $5.
c.
Only one license and registration tag shall be required for any dog
in any licensing year, and such license tag issued by any other New
Jersey municipality shall be acceptable by the Borough as evidence
of compliance with this section.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 4]
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. 10/13/64, § 5]
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, maintain
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 Clerk of the Borough or other local official designated
by the governing body to license dogs in the Borough. In addition
he shall forward similar information to the State Department of Health
each month on forms furnished by the department. Registration numbers
shall be issued in the order of the applications.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 6]
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. 10/13/64, § 7]
a.
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.
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 Health Officer of the Board of Health of the Borough,
showing compliance with the local and State rules and regulations
governing location of and sanitation of such establishments.
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 the last day of January of each
year, and be subject to revocation by the Borough Council 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 or the Board of Health of the Borough governing the same
after the owner has been afforded a hearing by either the State Department
of Health or the Board of Health of the Borough.
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.
b.
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.
c.
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. 10/13/64, § 8]
The Chief of Police or any person appointed for this purpose
by the governing body, shall promptly after February 1, annually cause
a canvass to be made of all dogs owned, kept, maintained or harbored
within the limits of the Borough, and shall report on or before May
1 of each year to the Clerk of the Borough, the Board of Health of
the Borough and to the State Department of Health, the result of the
canvass, setting forth in separate columns the names and address of
persons owning, keeping or harboring such dogs, the number of licensed
dogs owned, kept, maintained or harbored by each of the persons, together
with the registration numbers of each of the dogs, and the number
of unlicensed dogs owned, kept, maintained or harbored by each of
the persons, together with a complete description of each of the unlicensed
dogs, for which the canvass the said Chief of Police or other person
appointed for this purpose by the governing body, shall be paid the
sum of $150.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 9]
A dog owner shall keep his dog under restraint at all times.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 10]
a.
The Chief of Police or any person appointed for this purpose by the
governing body, shall take into custody and impound or cause to be
taken into custody and impounded and thereafter disposed of or destroyed,
as provided herein:
1.
Dogs not licensed pursuant to this section;
2.
Dogs found not under restraint or abandoned;
3.
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, maintaining or harboring
the dog is known, the Chief of Police of any person authorized by
him in that behalf, shall within 24 hours, serve on the person whose
address is given on the collar, or on the owner or the person keeping,
maintaining 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 service of the
notice.
b.
A notice under this section may be served 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 to 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.
c.
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 notice has not been and cannot
be given as above set forth, and if the owner or person keeping, maintaining
or harboring the dog has not claimed the dog and paid all expenses
incurred by reason of its detention, including maintenance, and if
the dog be unlicensed at the time of the seizure and the owner or
person keeping, maintaining or harboring the dog has not produced
a license and registration tag for the dog, the Chief of Police or
any other person authorized by him in that behalf may cause the dog
to be disposed of in one of the following ways:
1.
Euthanasia using a method approved by the Humane Society of the United
States.
2.
Release for adoption by a new owner who shows evidence of ability
and intention to provide the dog with an appropriate home and humane
care.
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An owner redeeming a dog from impoundment shall pay, before
release, a boarding charge of one ($1.00) dollar for each 24 hours
or fraction thereof that the dog has been impounded.
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[Ord. 10/13/64, § 11]
Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any
duty under this section is hereby authorized to enter upon any premises
where a dog is kept or maintained or harbored, to inspect conditions
under which the dog is kept, and to require the owner to exhibit a
license for the dog, and to seize for impounding any dog which he
may lawfully seize and impound.
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
or empowered to perform any duty under this section.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 12]
No person shall keep, maintain or harbor any dog which habitually
barks, cries, howls or in other ways is a public nuisance.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 13]
No person owning, keeping, maintaining or harboring a dog shall
permit or suffer it to do any injury, or to do any damage to any lawn,
shrubbery, flowers, grounds or property.
[Ord. 12/13/77, § 1]
a.
No person owning or in charge of any dog shall cause or allow such
dog to soil, defile, defecate on, or commit any nuisance on any common
thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park, or any
place where people congregate or walk, or upon any public property
whatsoever or upon any private property, without the permission of
the owner of the property.
b.
Any person owning or in charge of any dog which soils, defiles, defecates
on, or commits any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk,
passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate
or walk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private
property without the permission of the owner of the property, shall
immediately remove all feces deposited by any such dog, in a sanitary
manner.
c.
The feces removed from the aforementioned designated areas shall
be disposed of by the person owning or in charge of any such dog,
in a sealed, non-absorbent, leakproof container.
d.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to blind persons who
may use dogs as guides.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 14]
No person owning, keeping, maintaining or harboring any dog
which has been known to be vicious by having previously attacked or
bitten any person or persons, shall permit such dog to be upon a public
street or highway, or upon any premises other than those of the person
owning such dog or those of the person who has given permission to
the owner to keep or maintain or harbor such dog on such premises
unless such dog wears a muzzle securely fastened over his jaws in
such manner that he cannot bite.
Any dog which has attacked or bitten any human being or has
caused any person to be fearful for his own safety by chasing, worrying
or otherwise, or which has habitually attacked other dogs or domestic
animals is hereby defined to be a vicious dog for the purpose of this
section, and upon complaint reciting such facts being filed in the
Municipal Court, the Municipal Judge upon due notice of the owner
or other person having a property in such dog, if such there be, shall
thereupon cause a hearing to be held to determine whether the dog
complained against shall be adjudged a vicious dog. In the event the
Municipal Judge after the hearing shall determine the dog to be a
vicious dog within the meaning of this section the dog shall thereupon
be prohibited from being upon any street, road, or public place in
the Borough unless securely muzzled as hereinbefore set forth and
under leash, or the Municipal Judge shall make such order with respect
to the disposition of the dog as he shall deem consistent with the
provisions of this section and in the best interest of the health
and welfare of the residents of the Borough.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 15]
The owner of a dog shall provide it with humane shelter from
heat, cold, rain, wind and snow, and shall give it food and water
adequate to keep the animal in good health. Dog houses and kennels
must be soundly constructed, dry and provided in cold weather with
clean bedding.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 16]
The owner of any female dog in heat shall confine any such female
dog within a building in such manner that the dog will not be accessible
to other dogs, and will not attract male dogs, except for planned
breeding.
[Ord. 10/13/64, § 18; Ord. No. 3-96]
Any person who violates or who fails or refuses to comply with
this chapter, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $5 nor
more than $100 for each and every offense, except that for the first
offense or failure to secure a license, the penalty shall be not less
than $5 and not more than $100.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 5-2, Licensing and Control
of Cats, Ord. No. 2-91, as amended, was repealed 7-11-2017 by Ord.
No. 2017-005.
[Ord. No. 2010-09]
Chickens, ducks, geese or other fowl shall not be kept for domestic
use unless the following rules and regulations are strictly adhered
to:
a.
Such fowl or animal shall not be allowed to fly or run at large,
but shall be confined in a suitable house or coop with an enclosed
runway; except pigeons for which a permit to fly must be obtained
from the Borough.
b.
No part of such coop, house or runway shall be less than 100 feet
from the doors or windows of any building occupied by human beings,
whether for dwelling or business purpose. In addition to the above
requirements, no person shall keep less than 25 fowl or animals above-referenced
unless the lot on which such fowl or similar referenced animals contains
at least one acre of land. However, poultry kept temporarily for markets
and educational purposes may be kept under conditions other than those
specified.
c.
More than 25 fowl or animals above referred to can be kept at any
time, provided the lot on which such fowl are kept contains at least
two acres of land. This restriction shall not apply, however, if such
fowl or animals are kept not nearer than 300 feet to a dwelling house
or occupied building, exclusive of that of the keeper of such fowl.
d.
No person shall keep chickens, ducks, geese or other fowl for commercial
purposes without first obtaining a license to do so.
[Ord. No. 2010-09]
a.
Farm, domestic and wild animals, including but not limited to horses,
cattle, swine, goats, snakes, lions and so forth, shall be kept in
an enclosed area which shall provide appropriate shelter for the animal.
Such enclosed area shall be maintained so as to be nuisance-free.
The keeping of such animals is permitted only in instances where there
is provided sufficient land area in and around the enclosed area,
which shall be at least 100 feet from each lot line or from any part
of any building occupied by human beings, whether for dwelling or
business purposes. The lot must be of sufficient size to provide at
least one acre of land per animal exclusive of the area occupied by
a residential unit.
b.
The regulations of this section shall not restrict domestic house
pets, such as dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, fish and other animals
commonly kept caged inside as pets, and the provisions of this section
shall not be construed to permit commercial piggeries, mink farms,
fox farms and other such enterprises.
[Ord. No. 2010-09]
The license fee for keeping farm, domestic and wild animals
shall be $100. The license shall be renewable annually in January.
The late fee for failure to renew the license within 30 days of the
due date shall be $5 per month.
[Ord. No. 2010-09]
Any person who shall violate any section of this article shall
be subject to a penalty of not less than $250 and not more than $1,250
upon conviction. Each day or part thereof during which such violation
shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
[Ord. No. 2007-04]
a.
Purpose. This section establishes requirements for the proper disposal
of pet solid waste in Borough of South Bound Brook, so as to protect
public health, safety and welfare, and to prescribe penalties for
failure to comply.
b.
IMMEDIATE
OWNER/KEEPER
PERSON
PET
PET SOLID WASTE
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms,
phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated
herein unless their use in the text of this section clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
Shall mean that the pet solid waste is removed at once, without
delay.
Shall mean any person who shall possess, maintain, house
or harbor any pet or otherwise have custody of any pet, whether or
not the owner of such pet.
Shall mean any individual, corporation, company, partnership,
firm, association, or political subdivision of this State subject
to municipal jurisdiction.
Shall mean a domesticated animal (other than a disability
assistance animal) kept for amusement or companionship.
Shall mean waste matter expelled from the bowels of the pet;
excrement Proper disposal shall mean placement in a designated waste
receptacle, or other suitable container, and discarded in a refuse
container which is regularly emptied by the municipality or some other
refuse collector; or disposal into a system designed to convey domestic
sewage for proper treatment and disposal.
c.
Requirement for Disposal. All pet owners and keepers are required
to immediately and properly dispose of their pet's solid waste
deposited on any property, public or private, not owned or possessed
by that person.
d.
Exemptions. Any owner or keeper who requires the use of a disability
assistance animal shall be exempt from the provisions of this section
while such animal is being used for that purpose.
e.
Enforcement. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by
the Police Department and the Local Board of Health of Borough of
South Bound Brook.
f.
Violations and Penalty. Any person(s) who is found to be in violation
of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine not to
exceed $500.
[Ord. No. 2007-04]
a.
Purpose. An ordinance to prohibit the feeding of unconfined wildlife
in any public park or on any other property owned or operated by Borough
of South Bound Brook, so as to protect public health, safety and welfare,
and to prescribe penalties for failure to comply.
b.
FEED
PERSON
WILDLIFE
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following terms,
phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meanings stated
herein unless their use in the text of this section clearly demonstrates
a different meaning. When not inconsistent with the context, words
used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural
number include the singular number, and words used in the singular
number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory
and not merely directory.
Shall mean to give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or
scatter any edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting
or enticing wildlife. Feeding does not include baiting in the legal
taking of fish and/or game.
Shall mean any individual, corporation, company, partnership,
firm, association, or political subdivision of this State subject
to municipal jurisdiction.
Shall mean all animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
c.
Prohibited Conduct. No person shall feed, in any public park or on
any other property owned or operated by Borough of South Bound Brook,
any wildlife, excluding confined wildlife (for example, wildlife confined
in zoos, parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at
environmental education centers, or feral cats as part of an approved
Trap-Neuter-Release program).
e.
Violations and Penalties. Any person(s) who is found to be in violation
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a fine not
to exceed $500.
