[Amended 9-11-1983]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
DOG
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
DOG OF LICENSING AGE
Any dog which has attained the age of six months or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
KENNEL
Any establishment where the business of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a pet shop.
NONSPAYED AND NONNEUTERED DOG
Any dog of reproductive age which has not had its reproductive capacity permanently altered through sterilization.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, shall include every person having a right of property in such dog and every person who has such dog in his or her keeping.
PET SHOP
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part of a kennel, where dogs are kept for sale or display.
POUND
Any establishment for the confinement of dogs seized either under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise.
Within the limits of the Township of South Hackensack, no person, firm or corporation shall have or keep more than two dogs at or upon any one premises unless and until there shall be granted by the Township Committee of the Township of South Hackensack, in accordance with the terms of this article, and shall be in force and effect a license so to do for the place or premises in or upon which the same shall be kept.
Said license shall be applied for by written application filed with the Township Committee. Said application shall set forth the full name of the applicant, the location of the premises in or at which said dogs are to be kept and a detailed description of the structure or structures thereon. Said application shall also be accompanied with a deposit to cover the license fee for the current year in the amount hereinafter provided.
[Amended 12-19-1996 by Ord. No. 96-14]
There shall be charged and collected for said license an annual fee as provided in Chapter 108, Fees. Said license shall expire on January 1 of each year, and in the case of the first license issued to any applicant hereunder, the fee therefor shall be prorated as to the balance of the year then remaining. Said license fee shall be payable in advance for each year or part thereof and is hereby expressly declared to be imposed for revenue.
For sufficient cause, after notice and hearing, the Township Committee may refuse to grant any application for a license hereunder or may revoke any such license previously granted for any violation of this article. No dogs in premises licensed or to be licensed shall be kept in the open or otherwise permitted in the open except on a leash under the control of an adult. No license shall be granted and any license heretofore issued shall be revoked if the structure on the licensed premises where such dogs are to be kept is or would be within 250 feet of any public street or within 250 feet of the line of any other property owner. Such licensed place or premises shall at all times comply with the proper police, health and zoning regulations imposed by the Township of South Hackensack, and said place or premises shall at all times be subject to inspection by the police, health and building authorities of the Township of South Hackensack.
[Amended 2-14-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
A. 
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the terms or provisions of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not exceeding $2,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, or any combination thereof.
[Amended 12-19-1996 by Ord. No. 96-14; 2-14-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
B. 
Each day that a violation of any of the terms or provisions of this article shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.