[Adopted 5-7-1990 (Ch. 160 of the 1977 Code)]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Animal Control Officer, as designated and appointed by the Hillsborough
Township Board of Health, shall be the Animal Control Authority. This may
be, under different circumstances, either the Somerset County Humane Society,
Sanitarians with the Hillsborough Township Health Department or the Hillsborough
Township Police.
Any member of the domestic feline species; male, female or neutered.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part of a
kennel or pet shop, wherein cats for sale are kept or displayed.
The Somerset County Humane Society.
Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding or
selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on on a regular basis, except
a pet shop. Every place where five or more dogs of licensing age are kept
or maintained for commercial purposes shall be considered a "kennel."
Rendered permanently incapable of reproduction, as certified by a
licensed veterinarian.
When applied to the proprietorship of a cat, shall include every
person having a right of property (or custody) in such cat and every person
who has such cat in his/her keeping or who harbors or maintains a cat or knowingly
permits a cat to remain on or about any premises occupied by that person.
Any individual, corporation, partnership, organization or institution
commonly known and recognized by law as a unit.
Any room or group of rooms, cage or exhibition pen, not part of a
kennel or cattery, wherein dogs and cats for sale are kept and displayed.
An establishment for the confinement of dogs seized.
A.
Vaccination requirements. No person shall own, keep,
harbor or maintain any cat over three months of age within Hillsborough Township
unless such cat is vaccinated. The provisions of this section do not apply
to cats held by a state or federal licensed research facility or a veterinary
establishment where cats are received or kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical
or other treatments or pounds and kennels, as defined by this article.
B.
Vaccination. All cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization, published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, except as provided for in Subsection D.
C.
Vaccination certificate. A certificate of vaccination
shall be issued to the owner of each animal vaccinated on a form recommended
by the state.
D.
Exemptions. Any cat may be exempted from the requirements
of such vaccination for a specified period of time by the local Board of Health,
upon presentation of a veterinarian's certificate stating that, because of
an infirmity or other physical condition or regimen of therapy, the inoculation
of such cat shall be deemed inadvisable.
The owner of a cat shall provide evidence that the cat has been inoculated
with a rabies vaccine of a type approved by and administered in accordance
with this article. All rabies inoculations shall be administered by a licensed
veterinarian or by such other veterinarian permitted by law to do the same.
No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized or
empowered to perform any duty under this article.
