Certain words, phrases and terms in this chapter are defined for the purpose herein as follows:
Any person or agency designated by the Township or certified by the State of New Jersey to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Facilities that do not contract for the impoundment of stray animals, but receive, house and distribute seven or more animals that are surrendered by owners or identified as stray animals.
Any member of the domestic feline species, male, female or altered.
Any cat which has attained the age of seven months or possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part of a kennel, wherein cats for sale are kept or displayed.
Any animal injuring or damaging any lawn, shrubbery, flower garden or property of another, or an animal defecating on any public street, sidewalk, public park or on any other private property.
Any free-roaming, feral, or barn cat that may be cared for by one or more residents of the immediate area and with no discernible form of ownership identification.
Any person(s) who may provide care, including food, water, shelter, or medical care to a community cat. A community cat caregiver shall not be considered to be the owner, custodian, harborer, controller, or keeper of a community cat.
A group of cats that congregates, more or less, together as a unit.
Committing any act of mistreatment upon any animal, including but not limited to any act proscribed by N.J.S.A. 4:22-26, and as it may hereafter be amended.
Any dog or dog hybrid declared potentially dangerous by any municipal court pursuant to state statute, which has a propensity to attack or cause injury unprovoked, or threatens humans or domestic animals.
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
Any cat, dog, or livestock other than poultry.
The removal of the quarter-inch tip of a community cat's left ear, performed while the cat is under anesthesia by a licensed veterinarian and designed to be an indication that the community cat has been sterilized and vaccinated for rabies.
Any non-game species, mammal, bird, reptile, or amphibian not indigenous to New Jersey, and hybrids of such animals, whether wild-borne or captive-bred, which are kept in the home for pleasure rather than utility, and are relatively rare or unusual to keep, or are generally thought of as a wild or farm species rather than as a pet.
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 such as the legal baiting of fish and/or game.
A cat that is born in the wild or is the offspring of an owned or feral cat and is not socialized, or is a formerly owned cat that has been abandoned and is no longer socialized.
Any licensed lands, structure or facility where pets are kept for sale, breeding, boarding, training or treatment purposes in return for remuneration or as a nonprofit organization, except an animal hospital, care facility, grooming parlor, or pet shop.
The office of the Township Clerk of the Township of North Brunswick.
All animals of the equine, bovine, or swine class, including but not limited to goats, sheep, mules, horses, hogs, cattle, and other grazing animals, kept for the production of food, wool, skins or fur, or for use in any agricultural or for-profit activity.
A property such as, but not limited to, apartments or condominiums, with or without housing associations. This includes any property where a cat colony is located in a common residential area.
Rendered permanently incapable of reproduction as certified by a licensed veterinarian.
When applied to the proprietorship of an animal, includes every person having a right of property or custody in such animal and every person who has such animal in his/her keeping or who harbors or maintains an animal or knowingly permits an animal to remain on or about any premises occupied by that person.
Livestock or poultry.
An individual, family, firm, partnership, corporation, association of persons or institution commonly recognized by law as a unit.
Any retail establishment, which is not part of a kennel, wherein animals, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters or gerbils are sold, exchanged, bartered or offered for sale as pet animals to the general public at retail for personal appreciation and companionship rather than for business or research purposes.
A person who owns or operates a pet store, or both.
Domesticated fowl, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, or geese, raised for meat or eggs, or for use in any agricultural or for-profit activity.
An establishment for the confinement of dogs and other animals seized either under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise, including animal holding facilities that contract with municipalities for the impoundment of stray animals seized by animal control officers pursuant to N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.16.
Any structure that provides cover or protection, as from weather or danger; place of refuge and the protection afforded by such a cover.
Any animal for which there is no owner as described in § 110-31 shall be deemed a stray.
Any dog or dog hybrid declared vicious by a municipal court pursuant to state statute.
Any member of the species of birds, commonly known as swans, geese, river and sea ducks, sea gulls and any other waterfowl falling under the jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey Department of Fish, Game and Wildlife.
Living things and especially mammals, birds, and fishes that are neither human nor domesticated.