As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding
or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a
pet shop, and shall include any establishment wherein there is carried
on the business or practice of boarding, grooming, selling or breeding
dogs or where dogs are kept or maintained for any commercial purpose
whatever, except pet shops as herein mentioned, or where four or more
dogs of licensing age are kept or maintained for any reason in any
one place or establishment.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part
of a kennel, wherein domestic animals for sale are kept on display.
Any establishment for the confinement of domestic animals
seized under the provisions of this chapter or otherwise.
Any establishment where domestic animals are received, housed
and distributed with or without charge.
A.
Any person who keeps or operates or proposes to establish a kennel,
a pet shop, a shelter or a pound shall apply to the Borough Clerk
for a license entitling him to keep or operate such establishment.
B.
The application shall describe where the establishment is located
or is proposed to be located, the purpose or purposes for which it
is to be maintained and shall be accompanied by the written approval
of the local Board of Health and the Land Use Board, showing compliance
with the local and state rules and regulations governing location
of and sanitation.
C.
All licenses for a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall state
the purpose for which the establishment is maintained. Such license
shall expire on the last day of June of each year and shall be subject
to revocation by the Borough on recommendation of the State Department
of Health or the local Board of Health for failure to comply with
the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health or the
local Board of Health governing the same, after the owner has been
afforded a hearing by either the State Department of Health or the
local Board of Health in accordance with the statutes providing for
such hearings.
D.
Any such person holding such license shall not be required to secure
individual licenses for dogs owned by him and kept at such establishments.
Licenses referenced in this chapter shall not be transferable to another
owner or different premises.
E.
One female dog for breeding purposes may be kept by not more than
one person for each family household without obtaining a kennel license
for not more than one litter per year, and further provided that the
pups from such breeding shall be sold or disposed of after seven months
of age, unless kept as licensed dogs, and that the female dog kept
for breeding purposes must be registered as a breed bitch each year
when the license for the dog is obtained.
F.
The fees for kennels and pet shops shall be paid at the time of the application. The fee for said license(s) shall be charged in accordance with the fee schedule established in Chapter 119, Fees.
G.
No domestic animal kept in a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall
be permitted off such premises except on leash or in a crate or other
safe and humane control device.
H.
List of licensed kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds. The Borough
Clerk shall forward to the State Department of Health a list of all
kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds licensed within 30 days after
the licenses therefor are issued, which list shall include the name
and address of the licensee and the kind of license issued.
