Township of Weymouth, NJ
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2021-07-12
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 78 Animals
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Article II Animal Control Officer
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Central Dispatch System
- Ch 11 Citizens Advisory Committee
- Ch 15 Civil Defense Agency
- Ch 19 Claims Approval
- Ch 23 Committee, Township
- Ch 25 Contractor Pay-To-Play Reform
- Ch 27 Court, Joint Municipal
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 33 Environmental Commission
- Ch 37 Escrow Deposits
- Ch 43 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Fire District
- Ch 51 Municipal Utilities Authority
- Ch 57 Officers and Employees
- Ch 59 Personnel Policies
- Ch 61 Senior Citizens Advisory Board
- Ch 62 Shade Tree Commission
- Ch 63 Special Events Committee
- Ch 64 Tax Assessor
- Ch 68 Veterans' Advisory Board
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 72 Alarm Systems
- Ch 74 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 78 Animals
- Ch 78 Art II Animal Control Officer
- § 78-14 Appointment.
- § 78-15 Duties.
- § 78-16 Interference with persons performing their duties prohibited.
- § 78-17 Ownership of dogs.
- § 78-18 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 84 Brush, Grass, Weeds and Debris
- Ch 88 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 92 Buildings, Removal of
- Ch 96 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 102 Campgrounds, Private
- Ch 106 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 110 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 114 Curfew and Loitering
- Ch 118 Dumpsters
- Ch 122 Excavations and Soil Removal
- Ch 125 Fees
- Ch 128 Fire Prevention
- Ch 132 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 138 Games of Chance
- Ch 142 Garage Sales
- Ch 148 Junkyards
- Ch 155 Land Use
- Ch 163 Littering
- Ch 169 (Reserved)
- Ch 173 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 175 Noise
- Ch 180 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 182 Parks, Playgrounds and Recreational Areas
- Ch 184 Peddling and Hawking
- Ch 188 Property Maintenance
- Ch 194 Recycling
- Ch 196 Rental Property
- Ch 198 Solid Waste
- Ch 199 Storm Sewers
- Ch 200 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 206 Taxation
- Ch 210 Taxicabs
- Ch 214 Towing
- Ch 220 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 224 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 228 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 232 Yard Waste
- Appendix
- Ch A236 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A237 Telephone Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-29-1980 by Ord. No. 243-80 as Ch. V of the 1980
Revised General Ordinances]
[Amended 6-19-1996 by Ord. No. 344-96]
The Township Committee shall hire any person, firm or agency
for a term not to extend beyond December 31 in the year in which the
person, firm or agency was so hired, and such person, firm, or agency
shall act as Animal Control Officer and whose duty it shall be to
take up at any time all dogs found by him at large within the Township
limits in violation of any of the provisions of this article.
It shall be the duty of the Animal Control Officer, upon taking
the dogs into custody, to impound and thereafter destroy or dispose
of them.
No person shall molest, obstruct or interfere with any person
appointed or designated by the Township Committee to enforce the provisions
of this article when such persons are engaged in the performance of
duties.
Any person who keeps or harbors a dog on premises occupied by
him, or permits a dog there to remain, shall be deemed the owner thereof
and liable for the observance of violation of any of the provisions
of this section.
