[Adopted 6-18-1934 by Ord. No. 215]
No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog
which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses a set
of permanent teeth except by authority of a license granted and metal
registration tag issued in accordance with the provisions of this
article for each dog so owned, kept or harbored.
A.
Applications for licenses required to be issued under
this Article shall be made to the Registrar of Vital Statistics in
the Department of Health, upon forms supplied by him, in the month
of January of each year.
[Amended 8-15-1966 by Ord. No. 883]
B.
The owner of or any person harboring any newly acquired
dog which has attained the age of seven months or which possesses
a set of permanent teeth, or any dog which attains the age of seven
months or a set of permanent teeth, shall apply for a license under
this Article within 10 days after such acquisition or age attainment.
A.
Upon payment of the appropriate fees as set forth in § 52-9 of this Article, a license in the form of an official metal tag designed by the New Jersey Department of Health, numbered serially in order of the application and bearing the year of issuance and name of the City of Hackensack, shall be issued to the applicant by the Registrar of Vital Statistics.
[Amended 8-15-1966 by Ord. No. 883]
B.
Upon each dog required to be licensed by this Article,
there shall be at all times a collar or a harness to which the appropriate
registration tag is securely fastened.
[Amended 8-15-1966 by Ord. No. 883]
The Registrar of Vital Statistics shall forward
to the New Jersey State Department of Health, each month, the information
contained in the license applications.
The Chief of Police shall annually cause a canvass
to be made of all dogs owned, kept or harbored within the limits of
the city and shall report, on or before May 1 of each year, to the
Health Department and to the New Jersey State Department of Health
the result thereof, setting forth in separate columns the names and
addresses of persons owning, keeping or harboring unlicensed dogs,
the number of unlicensed dogs owned, kept or harbored by each of said
persons, together with a complete description of each of said unlicensed
dogs.
Opportunity will be given from time to time
to every resident of the City of Hackensack, New Jersey, owning or
in possession of a dog or dogs, to have said dog or dogs inoculated
with antirabic vaccine, one-injection method, as often as the Health
Officer shall designate. The certificate of vaccination shall be presented
to the Health Officer for registration immediately after vaccination.
Inoculations provided by the city, free of charge, shall be made by
such person or persons as the city shall designate. The city will
not pay for inoculations made by veterinarians other than those designated
by the city.
The provisions of this Article shall be enforced
by the Police Department.
A.
No person owning, keeping or harboring a dog shall
permit or suffer it to do any injury or to do any damage to any lawn,
shrubbery, flowers, grounds or property.
B.
No person owning or having the care or custody of
a dog shall knowingly or negligently permit such dog to commit any
nuisance upon any sidewalk, any public street or other thoroughfare,
nor upon any crosswalk, nor in or upon any public building or any
approach to such building, nor in or upon any park or playground;
nor shall any such person omit to do any reasonable and proper act,
nor omit to take any reasonable and proper precaution, to prevent
any such dog from committing a nuisance in, on or upon any of the
places or premises herein specified.
C.
No person owning, keeping or harboring any dog shall
suffer or permit it to run upon any public street or in any public
park or in any public building or in any other public place within
the city unless such dog is muzzled or unless such dog is controlled
by an adequate leash not more than eight feet long. The Health Officer
may, by rule, regulation or resolution, also designate other times
during which dogs off the premises of the owner or person harboring
them shall be muzzled, such designation to be by publication in a
newspaper circulating in the city, and, after such publication, no
person owning, keeping or harboring a dog shall permit it upon any
public street, public place or outside the premises occupied by the
owner unless such dog wears a muzzle securely fastened over its jaws
in such a manner that it cannot bite.
D.
All dogs, when off the premises of the owner, shall
be required to wear a collar or harness on which shall be attached
the license tag.
[Amended 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74]
E.
Rabies inoculation records shall be kept on file in
the Health Department office and shall be available upon request.
[Added 4-15-1974 by Ord. No. 1-74]
F.
No person shall permit any vicious or dangerous dog
to be brought into or remain within the city.
G.
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, school ground or any space where
the public congregates or walks or upon any public property or place
whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of
the owner of said property. This 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:
[Added 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 20-77]
(1)
The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately
remove all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary method approved
by the Department of Health.
(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 subsection in a sanitary method approved by the Department of
Health.
(3)
The provisions of this subsection shall not apply
to blind persons who may use dogs as guides.
A.
The following dogs may be impounded by the Health
Officer:
(1)
Licensed dogs running at large.
(2)
All unlicensed dogs.
(3)
Vicious and dangerous dogs. (Such dogs may be destroyed
or otherwise disposed of at the discretion of the Health Officer.)
(4)
Any and all dogs suspected of having rabies. (Such
dogs shall be kept under observation for a period of time to be determined
by the Health Officer, at the expense of the owner or owners of said
dog or dogs.)
B.
The owner of any dog caught and impounded shall be
entitled to possession of such dog upon proof of ownership and payment
to the Health Officer of the amount of the charges incurred. The charge
for impounding each such dog shall be in the amount of $4 per day.
[Amended 2-21-1978 by Ord. No. 3-78; 9-15-1980 by Ord. No.
25-80; 10-17-1983 by Ord. No. 27-83]
D.
The Health Officer is hereby given authority to cause
to be destroyed any dog suspected of having rabies and to examine
the head of such dog.
