[Ord. No. 2017-13; Ord. No. 2018-08]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated.
Any agency or person, including an Animal Control Officer,
authorized by law to implement animal control laws and provide animal
care and control on behalf of the Borough.
Any charitable organization whose purpose includes the promotion
of animal welfare and that has been granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status
by the Internal Revenue Service.
Any person who regularly provides food and water to a feral
cat colony.
A method of identifying a feral or stray cat by a notched
or tipped left ear as performed by a licensed veterinarian.
A cat that is not socialized to humans and is not an owned
cat.
A group of feral or stray cats that congregate, more or less,
together as a unit and share a common food source.
A household in which a cat or kitten is temporarily placed
for the purpose of providing indoor shelter, care and, if necessary,
socialization before permanent placement in an adoptive home.
Any chicken, hen, turkey, goose, duck, emu, ostrich, or any
other fowl or poultry customarily found on a farm, and pigeons.
Any animal customarily found on a farm or typically raised
for use and sale, including, but not limited to swine, pigs, hogs,
sheep, bull, cow, calf, heifer, llama, goat, horse, or pony.
Conduct by any animal that disturbs the peace, including
habitually or continually howling, barking, crowing or making loud
noises, and habitually and significantly destroying property.
A cat that is a companion to a person, is regularly fed and
sheltered in the same person’s habitation and carries visible
indicia of ownership, such as a collar or tag.
A structure that provides feral and stray cats with protection
from cold, rain and other weather-related elements.
Any Animal Welfare Organization that agrees to comply with
the requirements of sponsorship set forth in this chapter.
A cat that is socialized to humans and is not an owned cat.
The method of managing feral and stray cats known as “trap-neuter-return”.
A program pursuant to which feral and stray cats are trapped,
sterilized, vaccinated against rabies, eartipped, returned to the
location where they were captured and provided with long-term care
by a Caretaker in accordance with this chapter.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer
or permit it to run at large upon the public streets, or in any other
public park, or in any public building or in any other public place
within the borough.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall permit
it on leash, or otherwise, to run upon the beach bordering the Atlantic
Ocean between May 30 and September 15 of each year.
The board of commissioners shall have power to appoint an agency
or one or more persons to be the Animal Control Officer who may seize
and impound dogs running at large in violation of the provisions of
this chapter.
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized
to perform any duty under this chapter, and anyone so authorized may
go on any premises in pursuit of any dog running at large, except
upon the premises of the owner of a dog if the owner is present and
forbids same.
All dogs kept or maintained by their owners in the borough shall
be licensed and registered if over seven months of age.
Dog licenses shall be issued by the borough clerk in accordance
with State statutes and upon payment of the following fees for each
dog:
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Municipal License Fee
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$6.80
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NJ Registration Fee
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$1
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NJ Pilot Clinic Fund
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$0.20
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NJ Pet Population Control
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$3 (non-spayed/non-neutered only)
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The provisions of this section shall not apply to “seeing-eye”
dogs properly trained to assist blind persons when such dogs are actually
being used by blind persons for the purpose of aiding them in going
from place to place.
The license and registration tag provided for in Subsection 6-2.4 hereof expires on December 31 in each year. The fee for the renewals thereof shall be the same as for the original license and tag.
[Ord. No. 2017-13]
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 this borough for a period of more than 10 days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog in accordance with Subsection 6-2.4 hereof.
[Ord. No. 2021-10]
a.
No person
owning, harboring, keeping, walking, or in charge of any dog shall
cause, permit or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit
any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, street, sidewalk, passageway,
road, play area, park, or any place where people congregate or walk,
or upon any beaches or beach fronts, or upon any private property
without the permission of the owner of private property.
b.
It shall
be a complete defense to violations of paragraph a of this subsection
that a person shall have immediately removed such defecation and disposed
of it in a sanitary manner.
c.
Disposition
in a sanitary manner shall include taking the feces home for disposition,
or wrapping the feces in a waterproof wrapping and placing it in the
dog owner’s home trash can or a municipal can. It shall not
include burial or placement in a storm sewer.
d.
No persons
shall permit the accumulation of animal feces upon his property or
property occupied by him to the extent that the odor may be noticeable
to any adjoining property owner.
e.
The provisions
of this section shall not apply to blind persons who may use dogs
as guides.
[Ord. No. 2017-13]
The Borough has an obligation to effectively and humanely control
feral cat populations within its borders. Therefore, a Trap-Neuter-Return
(“TNR”) program is hereby created for the purpose of reducing
the population of feral cats, which shall benefit and protect the
public health, welfare, and safety, and for the further purpose of
the humane treatment of feral cats.
A TNR Program shall be permitted and Caretakers shall be entitled
to maintain feral cat colonies in accordance with the terms and conditions
of this section.
Friends of Southern Ocean County Animal Shelter Inc. agrees
to comply with the requirements of this chapter and shall act as a
Sponsor of the TNR Program, and shall provide the Borough with a written
letter of intention containing its address, telephone number and electronic
mailing address. The Borough may authorize additional Animal Welfare
Organizations as sponsorship entities as it deems appropriate by resolution
of the Board of Commissioners.
It shall be the duty of a Sponsor to:
It shall be the responsibility of a Caretaker to:
a.
Make reasonable
efforts to work with the Sponsor to trap all cats in a colony and
have all trapped cats sterilized, vaccinated against rabies, microchipped
and eartipped by a licensed veterinarian.
b.
Provide
or arrange for the provision of adequate food and water on a regular
basis and make reasonable efforts to ensure adequate shelter for colony
cats.
c.
In the
event kittens are born to a colony cat, the caregiver shall take reasonable
steps likely to result in the removal of kittens from the colony after
they have been weaned, and the placement of the kittens in homes or
foster homes for the purpose of subsequent permanent placement.
d.
Make reasonable
efforts to work with the Sponsor to resolve any complaints over colony
cats managed by the Caretaker.
e.
Obtain
proper medical attention to any colony cat that appears to require
it.
[Ord. No. 2017-13]
An Animal Control Service that has trapped or received an eartipped
cat from within the Borough can immediately return that cat to the
Sponsor or Caregiver Colony versus impounding the cat at the shelter.
[Ord. No. 2018-08]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to
keep, stable, breed or quarter livestock or fowl within the corporate
limits of the Borough of Harvey Cedars.
This prohibition shall not include the keeping of cats, dogs
or other domestic animals within the limits of the Borough as permitted
by any other section of this chapter.
