The following words and terms shall have the
meanings herein indicated for the purposes of this article:
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.
KEEPER
Any person exercising control over a dog or permitting a
dog to remain on premises under his control.
OWNER
When applied to the proprietorship of a dog, every person
having a right of property in such dog and every person who has such
dog in his keeping provided, however, that no household shall have
more than four dogs.
[Amended 9-5-2002 by Ord. No. 15-20]
PET SHOP
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein dogs for sale are kept or displayed.
POUND
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized either
under the provisions of this article or otherwise.
Licenses shall be required for the following
dogs of licensing age:
A. A dog owned or kept within the Borough by a Borough
resident as of January 1 of a calendar year.
B. A dog acquired during the course of a calendar year
and kept within the Borough for more than 10 days after acquisition.
C. A dog attaining licensing age during the course of
the calendar year.
D. An unlicensed dog brought into and kept within the
Borough for more than 10 days.
E. A dog licensed by another state brought into and kept
within the Borough for more than 90 days.
[Amended 7-9-1981; 9-12-1985; 8-11-1988 by Ord. No. 13-88]
A. A person applying for a license shall pay a fee of
$15, which fee shall include the following:
[Added 9-5-1991 by Ord. No. 8-91; 6-13-2007 by Ord. No. 6-07]
(1) A fee of $13.80 for the cost of the license and registration
tag;
(2) A fee of $1 for the Rabies Control Program, as required
by and to be remitted to the State of New Jersey, Department of Health;
and
(3) A fee of $0.20 for the Pilot Clinic Fund as required
by and to be remitted to the State of New Jersey, Department of Health.
(4) Delinquent fee. Anyone failing to obtain a dog license
by February 15 of each calendar year shall be subject to a delinquent
fee of $5.
B. In addition, all dogs of reproductive age that have
not had their reproductive capacity permanently altered through sterilization
shall be subject to a three-dollar fee for the Animal Population Control
Program as required by and to be remitted to the State of New Jersey,
Department of Health.
C. Anyone failing to obtain a dog license in accordance
with this article shall be subject to a fine of $100.
[Added 12-27-1989 by Ord. No. 21-89]
No person shall own, keep or harbor a dog in
the Borough except in compliance with the provisions of this chapter
and the following regulations:
A. Wearing of registration. Dogs for which licenses are
required by the provisions of this chapter shall wear collars or harnesses
with the registration tags securely fastened thereto.
B. Use of registration tags. No person, except an officer
in the performance of his duties, shall remove a registration tag
from the collar of a dog without the consent of the owner, nor shall
any person attach a registration tag to a dog for which the tag was
not issued.
C. Interference with official duties. No person shall
hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized or empowered to
perform any duty under this chapter.
D. Any person owning or having in his or her custody
a dog which shall run at large beyond the property of such person
shall be guilty of a violation and subject to a penalty. Such action
is declared to be a nuisance and dangerous to public health and safety.
[Amended 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95; 6-12-1996 by Ord. No. 7-96]
E. Leashing of dogs. Any dog not secured by a leash or
not confined to its own property shall be considered running at large.
No person owning or having the control, custody or possession of a
dog shall permit such dog to run at large or to go or be upon the
public streets, sidewalks or other public places within the Borough,
unless the dog is on a leash with an overall length, including a handgrip,
not exceeding six feet and is in the custody of some person or persons
capable of controlling such dog.
[Added 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95]
F. Disturbing the peace. No person shall own, keep, harbor
or maintain any dog which shall disturb the neighborhood by excessive
barking, howling or whining.
[Added 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95]
G. In the event that any dog shall defecate or otherwise
damage any public or private property other than property owned by
the person harboring such dog, including the public street, the person
owning, harboring, keeping or in charge or in custody of such dog
shall immediately remove all feces and/or dog soil deposited by such
dog by any sanitary method, thereafter disposing of same in said person's
garbage or waste removal container.
[Added 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95]
H. A Seeing Eye dog in custody of a person who has been
declared to be legally blind shall be exempt from the provisions of
this section.
[Added 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 18-95]
I. There shall be no commercial breeding of dogs anywhere
in the Borough. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any household shall
be permitted to have two litters per year. This limitation as to the
number of litters shall be applicable to the household, regardless
of the number of dogs maintained therein.
[Added 9-5-2002 by Ord. No. 15-02]
Where it has been determined by a physician
that a person has been bitten by a dog, that person or his parent
or guardian if he is a minor shall immediately notify the police.
When the owner or keeper of a dog is notified by the police that the
dog has bitten an individual, the owner or keeper of the dog shall
comply with the following procedures:
A. Have the dog examined by a licensed veterinarian within
12 hours.
B. Have the dog kept in quarantine in the owner's home
or at a kennel for a period of 10 days.
C. At the end of 10 days, have the dog reexamined by
a veterinarian and a written report of the dog's state of health sent
to the Board of Health.
The Council may by proclamation require all
dogs and cats to be quarantined during any period in each year that
may seem advisable to the Council.
The Council shall have the power to appoint
a Dog Warden, who shall be in charge of the pound and whose duty it
shall be to enforce the provisions of this article. The Council shall
have the power to appoint one or more dogcatchers, who may impound
unlicensed dogs running at large in violation of the provisions of
this article and who shall make a monthly and annual report to the
Council.