The following words and terms shall have the
meanings herein indicated for the purposes of this chapter:
ANIMAL CONTROL AUTHORITY
Any person or agency designed or certified by the State of
New Jersey to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
CAT
Any member of the domestic feline species, male, female or
altered.
DOG
Any dog, bitch or spayed bitch.
DOG OF LICENSING AGE
Any dog which has attained the age of seven months or which
possesses a set of permanent teeth.
HARBOR
The act of providing space or making available food or shelter
in such a manner that attracts an animal or animals.
KENNEL
Establishment for the business or practice of boarding, grooming,
selling or breeding animals or where animals are kept for any commercial
purpose (except pet shops as hereinafter defined) or where five or
more animals of licensing age are kept; one female dog for breeding
purposes may be kept in a household to have one litter per year without
obtaining a kennel license, provided that the pups are sold or disposed
of after eight weeks of age, unless kept as licensed dogs, and that
the female dog kept for breeding purposes must be registered as a
breed bitch each year when licensed.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of an animal, shall include
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.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, organization
or institution commonly recognized by law as a unit.
PET SHOP
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein animals for sale are kept or displayed.
POUND
An establishment for the confinement of animals seized either
under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise.
SHELTER
Any establishment where animals are received, housed and
distributed without charge.
VICIOUS DOG
Any dog that has been declared by a Municipal Court Judge
to be a vicious dog which has attacked or bitten any human being or
which habitually attacks other dogs or domestic animals.
The information on all applications under this
chapter and the registration number issued to each licensed dog shall
be preserved for a period of three years by the Clerk or other official
designated by the Township. In addition, each month he/she shall forward
similar information to the State Department of Health on forms furnished
by that Department.
Each dog license and registration tag shall
expire on the last day of April of the calendar year following the
calendar year in which it was issued.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any animal licensed under §
87-8 of this chapter. Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as "Seeing Eye dogs," dogs used to assist handicapped persons and commonly known as "service dogs," and dogs used to assist deaf persons and commonly known as "hearing ear dogs," shall be licensed in the same manner as other dogs except that the owner or keeper shall not be required to pay any fee therefor.
In February of every other year, the Township
Manager shall appoint a person for the purpose of causing a canvass
to be made of all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the limits of
the Township and shall report the results thereof to the Animal Control
Authority, Township Board of Health and the State Department of Health.
The results of the canvass shall be set forth in separate columns
that state the names and addresses of persons owning, keeping or harboring
unlicensed dogs, the number of unlicensed dogs owned, kept or harbored
by each such person, together with a complete description of each
of said unlicensed dogs.
[Added 12-19-2005 by Ord. No. 15-2005]
A. No person shall feed any wildlife in any public park
or on any other property owned or operated by the Township of Byram.
This does not apply to confined wildlife (e.g., wildlife confined
at zoos, parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at
environmental education centers) or feral cats as part of an approved
trap, neuter and release (TNR) program.
B. Feeding refers to giving, placing, exposing, depositing,
distributing or scattering edible material with the intention of feeding,
attracting or enticing wildlife. Feeding does not include the baiting
in the legal taking of fish and/or game.
C. The baiting of wildlife for hunting and fishing purposes
is allowed within New Jersey Fish and Game Regulations.
D. Any person found guilty of violating this section shall be punishable as provided in §
87-17.
[Added 12-19-2005 by Ord. No. 15-2005]
A. No person shall feed or provide food for any wild
waterfowl at any time in any public park or any property owned or
operated by the Township of Byram.
B. The following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
FEED
To place, deposit, scatter or distribute in a location accessible
to waterfowl any type of food, including but not limited to corn,
wheat or other grains, bread, popcorn, scraps or any substance liable
to be eaten by waterfowl.
WATERFOWL
Nondomesticated waterfowl, whether migratory or not, including
but not limited to Canada geese and mallard ducks.