[Adopted as Ch. 6.08 of the 2003 Municipal Code]
For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall
have the meanings indicated:
An animal control center or animal shelter maintained by
or under contract with any state, county, or municipality, whose mission
and practice is, in whole or significant part, the rescue and placement
of animals in permanent homes or rescue organizations.
[Added 6-27-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-9]
Any not-for-profit organization which has tax exempt status
under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code,[1] whose mission and practice is, in whole or in significant
part, the rescue and placement of animals in permanent homes.
[Added 6-27-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-9]
A member of the species of domestic cat, Felis catus.
[Added 6-27-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-9]
A member of the species of domestic dog, Canis familiaris.
[Amended 6-27-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-9]
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding
or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a
pet shop.
To sell, offer for sale or adoption, advertise for the sale
of, barter, auction, give away or otherwise dispose of a dog or cat.
[Added 6-27-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-9]
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, means and includes
every person having a right of property in such dog and every person
who has such dog in the person's keeping.
A retail establishment where dogs and cats are sold, exchanged,
bartered or offered for sale as pet animals to the general public
at retail. Such definition shall not include an animal care facility
or animal rescue organization, as defined.
[Amended 6-27-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-9]
Any dog or dog hybrid declared potentially dangerous by a municipal court pursuant to L. 1989, c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., and § 183-20.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized under
the provisions of this article or otherwise.
Any establishment where dogs are received, housed and given
away.
A dog not known to have an owner.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
Any dog or dog hybrid declared vicious by a municipal court pursuant to L. 1989, c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., and § 183-20.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3).
No person shall keep or harbor any dog within the Township without
obtaining a license therefor, to be issued by the Township Clerk or
by any other person as may be authorized from time to time by resolution
of the Committee, upon application of the owner and payment of the
prescribed fee. No person shall keep or harbor any dog in this Township
except in compliance with the provisions of this article. Any person
who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing age shall apply for
and procure from the Township Clerk or other authorized person a license
and official metal registration tag for each such dog, and shall place
upon each such dog a collar or harness with the registration tag fastened
thereto.
Applicants for dog licenses and registration tags shall pay the fee in the amount set forth in Chapter 260, Fee Schedule, of the Code of the Township of Bordentown.
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 attainment of age. 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 or harbor such dog. The information on the application
and the registration number issued for the dog shall be recorded by
the Township Clerk, who shall transmit the information to the State
Department of Health each month on forms furnished by that Department.
Registration numbers shall be issued in the order of the applications.
The Clerk shall preserve dog license records for three years.
[Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions,
Art. I)]
Dogs used as guide dogs or service dogs (as defined in N.J.S.A.
10:5-5) shall be licensed and registered as other dogs as hereinabove
provided for, except that the owner or keeper of such dog shall not
be required to pay any fee therefor. A dog temporarily placed in a
foster home as part of a formalized training to be a guide dog or
service dog shall not be required to be licensed and registered while
the dog remains in the foster home for such training.
Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the Township any dog licensed in another state for the current year, and bearing a registration tag, and shall keep the same or permit the same to be kept within the Township for a period of more than 90 days, shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog, unless such dog be licensed under § 183-11.
No person except an enforcement officer in the performance of
the officer's 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.
[Amended 6-27-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-9; at time of adoption of Code (see
Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
A.
Any person who keeps, operates or proposes to establish a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall apply to the Township Clerk for a license entitling the operation of such an establishment in accordance with Chapter 214, Business Licenses.
B.
Prior to issuance or renewal
of such business license the Health Officer shall inspect the premises
to be licensed for compliance with all applicable state and local
laws and regulations governing sanitation, care and treatment of animals,
and other matters relevant to proper operation of the premises. No
license shall be issued or renewed unless the facility is in full
compliance with such laws and regulations. The application for issuance
or renewal of such license shall be accompanied by the inspection
report.
C.
Inspections of licensed premises
may be made by the Health Officer at any time, upon complaint or at
the request of any person, to assure continued compliance with all
applicable laws and regulations.
D.
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 to different premises.
E.
Every pet shop licensed pursuant to this article
shall submit annually to the Township, and no later than May 1 of
each year, records of the total number of cats and dogs, respectively,
sold by the pet shop, and the Township shall provide this information
to the local health authority.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sec. 6.08.080 of the 2003 Municipal Code, Kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds—license fees, which immediately followed this section, was repealed at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I). Original Sec. 6.08.090 of the 2003 Municipal Code, Notice to state, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 6-27-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-9.
No dog in a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall be permitted
off the premises, except on a leash, in a crate, or otherwise under
safe control.
[Added 6-27-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-9]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
License fees and other moneys collected or received for the
licensing of dogs, except registration tag fees and costs, fines and
fees collected pursuant to L. 1989, c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq.,
shall be forwarded to the Township Treasurer within 30 days after
collection or receipt and shall be placed in a special account separate
from any of the other accounts of the Township, and shall be used
for the following purposes only: for collecting, keeping and disposing
of dogs and cats liable to seizure under this section; for local prevention
and control of rabies; for providing anti-rabies treatment under the
direction of the local Board of Health for any person known or suspected
to have been infected with rabies; for all other purposes prescribed
by the statutes of New Jersey governing the subject, and for administering
the provisions of this article. Any unexpended balance remaining in
such special account shall be retained therein until the end of the
third fiscal year following and may be used for any of the purposes
set forth in this section. At the end of the third fiscal year following
and at the end of each fiscal year thereafter, there shall be transferred
from such special account to the general funds of the Township any
amount then in such account which is in excess of the total amount
paid into said special account during the last two fiscal years next
preceding. The registration tag fees shall be forwarded within 30
days after collection by the Township Clerk to the State Department
of Health. The costs, fines and fees collected pursuant to L. 1989,
c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., shall be deposited in a special
account separate from any of the other accounts of the Township and
shall be used by the Township to administer and enforce the provisions
of L. 1989, c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq.[1]
A.
Animal Control Officers are authorized
to go upon any premises to seize for impounding any dog or dogs which
may be lawfully seized and impounded when such officer is in immediate
pursuit of such dog or dogs, except upon the premises of the owner
of the dog if the owner is present and forbids the same.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
B.
Any stray dog, any dog found
off the premises of the owner or person keeping or harboring the dog
and without a current registration tag; and any bitch in season found
off the premises of the owner or person keeping or harboring the bitch
whether or not the bitch has a current registration tag; shall be
subject to seizure and impoundment.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
C.
If any dog thus 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 or harboring the dog is known, the Animal Control
Officer shall forthwith serve on the person whose address is given
on the collar, or on the owner or the person keeping or harboring
said dog, if known, a notice in writing stating that the dog has been
seized and will be subject to disposal as provided herein if not claimed
within seven days after the service of the notice. 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 the person's usual or last known place of abode, or to the
address given on the collar.
D.
To claim a dog that has been
seized and impounded, the owner or person keeping or harboring the
dog must produce a license and registration tag for the dog and must
pay all expenses incurred by reason of its impoundment, including
reasonable actual maintenance costs of the dog.
Any dog that has been impounded and unclaimed for seven days after notice, or for seven days after seizure when it is not possible to serve notice, shall be subject to disposal, except as may be otherwise required by L. 1989, c. 307, N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., and § 183-20. The Animal Control Officer may cause any dog subject to disposal to be humanely put to death in a manner causing the least possible pain to the dog.
No person shall keep, harbor or maintain any dog which habitually
barks or cries between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. so as
to cause a disturbing noise.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer
or permit it to run at large upon the public streets or in any public
park, or in any public building, or in any other public place within
the Township, nor to be upon the public streets or in any of the public
places of the Township unless such dog is accompanied by a person
over the age of 12 years and is securely confined and controlled by
an adequate leash not more than six feet long.
No person owning, keeping 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.
[Amended 5-21-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-18]
A.
State law incorporated by reference.
The state statute governing vicious or potentially dangerous dogs,
N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., is hereby incorporated in this article by
reference.
B.
Licensing, registration and identification
of potentially dangerous dogs.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
(1)
The owner of a dog declared potentially dangerous
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-23 shall apply to the Township Clerk for
a potentially dangerous dog license, municipal registration number
and red identification tag. The Township Clerk shall issue the same
upon written verification from the Municipal Animal Control Officer
that the owner has complied with the registration conditions pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 4:19-24. The owner shall annually renew said potentially
dangerous dog license.
C.
Telephone number for reporting
violations of N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq. The Township Clerk shall publicize
a telephone number for reporting violations of the Act, establishing
requirements for owners of vicious and potentially dangerous dogs,
N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., and shall forward this number to the State
Department of Health.
A.
No person in the Township shall
own, possess, harbor or have in custody any dog of licensing age unless
such dog has been vaccinated or inoculated against rabies by a licensed
veterinarian, such vaccination or inoculation to consist of anti-rabies
vaccine of standard and accepted quality and formula. Such vaccination
or inoculation shall be repeated annually thereafter. Where a dog
has been vaccinated or inoculated with an avianized vaccine, then
such dog shall be vaccinated or inoculated once every two years from
the date of the avianized vaccine or inoculation.
B.
Each owner shall obtain from
the veterinarian who vaccinates or inoculates the dog against rabies,
a certificate showing the date of such vaccination or inoculation,
the kind of vaccination or inoculation, a description of the dog,
the name and address of the owner thereof, and a rabies tag indicating
that the dog has been vaccinated or inoculated against rabies and
indicating the year of such vaccination or inoculation. The certificate
shall be presented upon the licensing of the dog for verification.[1]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
