No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any dogs, cats and other domestic animals shall cause, suffer or
allow such dogs, cats and other domestic animals to soil, defile,
defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk,
passageway, bypath, play area, park, school ground or any space where
the public congregate or walk or upon any public property or place
whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of
the owner of said property. This restriction in this article shall
not apply to that portion of the street lying between the curblines,
which shall be used to curb such dogs, cats and other domestic animals
under the following conditions:
A. The person who so curbs such dogs, cats and other
domestic animals shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such
dogs, cats and other domestic animals by any sanitary method approved
by the Board of Health.
B. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping
or in charge of any dogs, cats and other domestic animals curbed in
accordance with the provisions of this article in a sanitary method
approved by the Board of Health.
The provisions of this article shall not apply
to blind persons who may use dogs as guides.
The provisions of this article shall be enforced
by the Board of Health, the Borough Code Enforcement Officer and the
South River Police Department.
As used in this article, the phrase "curbline"
means the actual curbs of a public street, or if there be no curbs,
the edges of the improved portion of the public street.
Any person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dogs, cats and other domestic animals not curbed in accordance with the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be in violation of this article and subject to the penalty provisions contained in Chapter
1, Article
I, General Penalty.