CHAPTER VI

LICENSING OF DOGS

6-1    RUNNING AT LARGE.

6-1.1    Prohibited.  No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit it to run at large upon the public streets, or in any other public park, or in any public building or in any other public place within the borough.

6-1.2    Running Dogs on Beach.  No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall permit it on leash, or otherwise, to run upon the beach bordering the Atlantic Ocean between May 30 and September 15 of each year. 

6-1.3    Dogcatcher Appointed.  The board of commissioners shall have power to appoint one or more persons to be dogcatchers, who may seize and impound dogs running at large in violation of the provisions of this chapter. 

6-1.4    Destruction of Dogs.  When any dog so seized has been detained for seven days after notice, when notice can be given as set forth, or has been detained for seven days after seizure, when notice has not been and cannot be given as above set forth, and if the owner or person keeping or harboring that dog has not claimed the dog and paid all expenses incurred by reason of its detention, including maintenance fee to be charged by the pound holding the dog, the pound master may cause the dog to be destroyed in a manor causing as little pain as possible.  Additionally, prior to release of the dog, said possessor shall reimburse Harvey Cedars for all costs incurred by the borough for animal control services in seizing and delivering the dog to the pound.  The owner or harborer shall provide proof of payment prior to the release of the dog. 

No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized to perform any duty under this chapter, and anyone so authorized may go on any premises in pursuit of any dog running at large, except upon the premises of the owner of a dog if the owner is present and forbids same. 

6-2    LICENSING.

6-2.1    Fee.  All dogs kept or maintained by their owners in the borough shall be licensed and registered if over seven months of age.

Dog licenses shall be issued by the borough clerk upon payment of the following fees for each dog:

Municipal License Fee  $6.80

NJ Registration Fee                  $1.00

NJ Pilot Clinic Fund                  $  .20

NJ Pet Population Control        $3.00   (non-spayed/non-neutered only)

(Ord. No. 2005-06 § 1)

6-2.2    Seeing Eye Dogs; Exception.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to “seeing-eye” dogs properly trained to assist blind persons when such dogs are actually being used by blind persons for the purpose of aiding them in going from place to place. 

6-2.3    Expiration of License.  The license and registration tag provided for in subsection 6-2.1 hereof expires on January 31 in each year.  The fee for the renewals thereof shall be the same as for the original license and tag.

6-2.4    Dogs from Out-Of-State.  Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into the borough any dog licensed in another state for the current year and bearing a registration tag, and who shall keep the same or permit the same to be kept within this borough for a period of ninety days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog in accordance with subsection 6-2.1 hereof. 

6-2.5    Newly Acquired Dogs.  Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this borough any unlicensed dog and shall keep the same or permit the same to be kept within this borough for a period of more than ten days shall immediately apply for a license and registration tag for each such dog in accordance with subsection 6-2.1 hereof. 

6-3    CONTROL OF DOGS

6-3.1    Defecation on Property of Others, or Public Property.

a.   No person owning, harboring, keeping, walking, or in charge of any dog shall cause, permit or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, street, sidewalk, passageway, road, play area, park, or any place where people congregate or walk, or upon any beaches or beach fronts, or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of private property.

b.   It shall be a complete defense to violations of paragraph a. of this subsection that a person shall have immediately removed such defecation and disposed of it in a sanitary manner.

c.   Disposition in a sanitary manner shall include taking the feces home for disposition, or wrapping the feces in a waterproof wrapping and placing it in a trash can.  It shall not include burial or placement in a storm sewer.

d.   No persons shall permit the accumulation of animal feces upon his property or property occupied by him to the extent that the odor may be noticeable to any adjoining property owner. 

e.   The provisions of this section shall not apply to blind persons who may use dogs as guides. 

6-3.2    Violation; Penalty.

a.   For violation of any provision of this section, the penalty upon conviction, shall be a fine of ten ($10.00) dollars, for the violation and twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each and every subsequent violation.

b.   Except as otherwise provided, every day in which a violation of any provision of this section exists shall constitute a separate violation.