No person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog
or animal shall permit such dog or animal to soil, defile, defecate
or to commit any nuisance upon any sidewalk, street or thoroughfare
or in or upon any public park, playground or other public place or
upon the private property of persons other than the owner or person
having the care, custody or control of such dog or animal.
Soil or defile or do any injury or damage to any lawn, vegetable
garden, shrubbery, trees, flowers, driveway, ground or any property
of persons other than that of the owner or person having the care,
custody or control of such dog or animal.
The habitual barking, howling, whining or crying of a dog or dogs
or the howling of a cat or cats in the Borough of Netcong is hereby
declared to be a disturbing noise within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 40:48-1,
Subsection 8, and a nuisance.
Any conviction of a violation of this article shall be punishable
by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment for a term not to
exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Animal cruelty and the inhumane treatment of animals as defined,
prohibited and penalized in N.J.S.A. 4:22-17 et seq., is hereby adopted
by reference, and such conduct shall be unlawful within the Borough
of Netcong.
The abandonment of any disabled or domesticated animal as defined,
prohibited and penalized in N.J.S.A. 4:22-20 et seq., is hereby adopted
by reference, and such conduct shall be unlawful within the Borough
of Netcong.