[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council
of the Borough of Teterboro as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 8-11-2001 by Ord. No. 438]
Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog
of licensing age, as defined in N.J.S.A. 4: 19-15.1 et seq., shall,
in the month of January each year, apply to the Secretary of the Board
of Health for a license and registration tag for each such dog. Such
licenses and registration tags shall be issued pursuant to and in
accordance with the provisions of state statute, and all dogs shall
be kept and controlled in the manner provided for in such statute
and be subject to all the provisions thereof.
A. Pursuant to said statute, the annual license fee for
any dog license and each renewal thereof shall be $7, plus those fees
prescribed by state law for population-control funds.
B. From February 1 until March 31 of each year, there
shall be an additional late registration fee in the amount of $5,
but the applicant shall not be subject to a summons.
C. After March 31 of each year, in addition to the fees
and late registration fee set forth above, an applicant shall be subject
to a summons and fine.
D. Only one license and registration tag shall be required
in any licensing year for any dog owned and licensed in the State
of New Jersey, and such license and tag shall be accepted by the Borough
as evidence of compliance with this section.
E. In the event that a procured license or registration
tag is lost, a fee of $l shall be charged for the replacement thereof
F. The annual fee for a potentially dangerous dog license
and renewal thereof shall be $700.
G. All other license fees shall be as provided in said
statute, and all said fees and other funds collected shall be received
and disposed of in accordance with said statute.
The Borough Council may hereafter, by resolution,
establish a pound and shall appoint a Certified Animal Control Officer,
who shall hold office for such length of time, perform such duties
and receive such compensation as the Council may hereafter, by resolution,
from time to time determine. Any dog taken into custody and impounded
as provided in said statute shall be kept in said pound, if established,
or in any private pound, or with some person or persons hereafter
by resolution designated by the Borough Council, in the manner provided
for and subject to the provisions of said statute.
A. No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog, whether
of licensing age or not or whether licensed or not, shall suffer or
permit such dog to run at large within the limits of the Borough of
Teterboro. Any dog not secured by a leash or not confined shall be
considered running at large.
B. No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge
of any dog shall cause, suffer or allow such dog to soil, defile,
defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk,
passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate
or walk, or upon any public property whatsoever, or upon any private
property without the permission of the owner of said property. The
restriction in this subsection shall not apply to that portion of
the street lying between the curblines which shall be used to curb
such dog under the following conditions:
(1) The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately
remove all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary method approved
by the local health authority.
(2) The feces removed from the aforementioned designated
area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping
or in charge of any dog curbed in accordance with the provisions of
this article in a sanitary manner approved by the local health authority.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog,
whether of licensing age or not or whether licensed or not, shall
suffer or permit such dog to do any injury or damage to the lawn,
shrubbery, grounds or property of another within the Borough of Teterboro.
The provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 through and
including 4:19-37, amendments and supplements thereto, are hereby
incorporated herein by reference. A copy of said statutory provisions
shall be on file with the office of the Municipal Clerk.
Except as otherwise provided for in N.J.S.A.
4:19-17 and 4:19-37, any person who violates or who fails or refuses
to comply with this article shall be liable for a penalty of $50 for
each offense.
[Adopted 6-12-2012 by Ord. No. 533]
This article is adopted in order to protect the health, safety
and well-being of persons and property by prohibiting certain animals
within the Borough of Teterboro. The Borough Council of Teterboro
finds that the harboring of certain animals within the Borough may
be offensive to other residents so as to constitute a public nuisance
and may pose a threat to the safety of its inhabitants and their property.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or have in
his or her possession or under his or her control or to permit another
to keep, maintain or have under his or her control within the Borough
limits of the Borough of Teterboro any poisonous or constricting reptile
or any other dangerous or carnivorous wild animal or reptile or any
other animal or reptile of wild, vicious or dangerous propensities.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or have in
his or her possession or under his or her control within the Borough
of Teterboro any of the following animals, including but not limited
to all dangerous mammals and avian and all poisonous and constricting
reptiles and animals, including vipers; boas; pythons; apes; arachnids;
chimpanzees; gibbons; goats; gorillas; orangutans; siamangs; baboons;
bears; bison; bobcats; cheetahs; crocodilians; coyotes; elephants;
foxes; gamecocks and other fighting birds; hippopotami; hyenas; jaguars;
leopards; lions; lynx; monkeys (except those licensed for handicapped
assistance); pumas, also known as "cougars," "mountain lions," and
"panthers"; raccoons; rhinoceroses; snow leopards; tigers; wolves;
cattle bulls; elk; moose; wolverines; and badgers.
Any of the animals set forth in this article which have been
kept, maintained, possessed or controlled by any person within the
Borough limits of the Borough of Teterboro prior to the effective
date of this article shall be "grandfathered" and exempt from the
regulations herein. However, the owner or any person keeping, maintaining
or having possession or control of such animal(s) must nevertheless
register such animal(s) with the Animal Control Officer within 60
days from the effective date hereof. No offspring or replacement of
such exempt animal(s) shall be entitled to a continued exemption.
The provisions of this article shall be enforced by the Animal
Control Officer or any designated agency of the Borough of Teterboro.
Any person who violates any provisions of this article shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000
or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both. A separate
offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a
violation occurs or continues.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent
with the provisions of this article are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency.
If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase
or word contained in this article shall be declared invalid for any
reason whatsoever, such decision shall not affect the remaining portions
of this article, which shall remain in full force and effect, and
to this end the provisions of this article are hereby declared to
be severable.
This article shall take effect after final passage and publication
as required by law.