Certain words, phrases and terms in this article
are defined for the purposes herein as follows:
ANIMAL
For the purpose of this article, dog or cat.
ANIMAL CONTROL AUTHORITY
Any person or agency designated or certified by the State
of New Jersey to enforce the provisions of this article.
CAT
Any member of the domestic feline species, male, female or
altered.
CAT OF LICENSING AGE
Any cat which has attained the age of seven months or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
CATTERY
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein cats for sale are kept or displayed.
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The agency or department of the Borough of Shrewsbury, or
any designated representative thereof, charged with administering
the issuance and/or revocation of permits and licenses under the provisions
of this article.
NEUTERED
Rendered permanently incapable of reproduction as certified
by a licensed veterinarian.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a cat, shall include
every person having a right of property or custody in such cat and
every person who has such cat in his/her keeping or who harbors or
maintains a cat or knowingly permits a cat to remain on or about any
premises occupied by that person.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, partnership, organization or
institution commonly recognized by law as a unit.
[Amended 10-20-2003 by Ord. No. 820]
A. Vaccination and license requirements. No person shall
own, keep, harbor or maintain any cat over seven months of age within
the Borough of Shrewsbury unless such cat is vaccinated and licensed.
The provisions of this section do not apply to cats held in a cattery,
or those held by a state-licensed or federally licensed research facility,
or a veterinary establishment where cats are received or kept for
diagnostic, medical, surgical or other treatments, or licensed animal
shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.
B. Vaccination. All cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, except as provided for in Subsection
E.
C. Any rabies vaccination certificate that expires before
November 1 of the licensing year will require an updated vaccination
prior to the issuance of a new license.
D. Vaccination certificate. A certificate of vaccination
shall be issued to the owner of each animal vaccinated on a form recommended
by the state.
E. Exemptions. Any cat may be exempted from the requirements
of such vaccination for a specified period of time by the local Board
of Health, upon presentation of a veterinarian's certificate stating
that because of an infirmity or other physical condition, or regimen
of therapy, the inoculation of such cat shall be deemed inadvisable.
[Amended 3-14-1994 by Ord. No. 677]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any
provision of this article shall, upon conviction, be subject to a
fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,250, a term of imprisonment
not exceeding 90 days or a period of community service not exceeding
90 days, or any combination thereof. Any person charged with violating
any provision of this article after once having been convicted of
a violation of this article shall be required to appear in court to
answer such charge.
Nothing herein contained shall in any way be
construed as relieving any person from complying with any state statutes
or other regulations pertaining to the licensing and registration
of cats, and this article is intended to be supplementary to any provisions
of any such other laws.