Township of Toms River, NJ
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2023-09-27
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Part I: Administrative Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 165 Animals and Animal Establishments
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Article IV Cows, Horses, Goats and Sheep
- Part I: Administrative Code
- Organization
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 (Reserved)
- Ch 5 Township Council
- Ch 9 (Reserved)
- Ch 10 Office of the Mayor
- Ch 11 (Reserved)
- Ch 12 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Office of the Municipal Clerk
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 19 Office of the Tax Assessor
- Ch 21 (Reserved)
- Ch 23 Administrative Organization
- Ch 25 (Reserved)
- Ch 28 (Reserved)
- Ch 31 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 (Reserved)
- Ch 37 (Reserved)
- Ch 40 Department of Administration
- Ch 42 (Reserved)
- Ch 44 Department of Finance
- Ch 46 Department of Human Services
- Ch 47 (Reserved)
- Ch 48 Department of Community Development
- Ch 49 Department of Law
- Ch 50 Department of Law Enforcement
- Ch 52 (Reserved)
- Ch 54 Department of Public Works
- Ch 56 Department of Recreation
- Ch 60 Municipal Court
- Ch 62 Office of Municipal Public Defender
- Ch 63 (Reserved)
- Ch 64 Office of Municipal Prosecutor
- Ch 66 Office of Emergency Management
- Ch 68 Division of Community Service
- Ch 70 (Reserved)
- Ch 71 Statutory Boards and Commissions
- Ch 75 (Reserved)
- Ch 76 Advisory Committees
- Miscellaneous
- Ch 80 Claims Approval
- Ch 83 (Reserved)
- Ch 84 Contracts, Public
- Ch 86 Cooperative Pricing Agreements
- Ch 88 Criminal History Record Checks and Physical Examinations
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 94 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 95 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 99 (Reserved)
- Ch 102 (Reserved)
- Ch 104 Employee Regulations and Benefits
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 108 Payroll Account System
- Ch 109 Fire Companies
- Ch 114 Fire Districts
- Ch 118 (Reserved)
- Ch 120 Hazardous Materials Management
- Ch 121 Hotels and Motels
- Ch 123 Business, Rental Property and Multifamily Property Insurance Registration
- Ch 124 (Reserved)
- Ch 125 Mutual Aid Agreements
- Ch 128 (Reserved)
- Ch 129 Official Map
- Ch 131 (Reserved)
- Ch 132 Public Records, Inspection and Copying
- Ch 141 Retirement
- Ch 146 (Reserved)
- Ch 147 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 150 Tax Map
- Ch 152 Volunteer Incentives
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 158 Adopt-A-Highway Program
- Ch 159 Alarm Licensing and Operations
- Ch 160 Advertising
- Ch 162 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 165 Animals and Animal Establishments
- Ch 165 Art IV Cows, Horses, Goats and Sheep
- § 165-14 Minimum housing and maintenance standards.
- § 165-15 Compliance required.
- § 165-16 Violations and penalties.
- § 165-17 Continuing violations.
- § 165-18 Copy sent to Superintendent; approval of constructions.
- § 165-19 Exemptions.
- Ch 170 Auctions and Auctioneering
- Ch 175 Bathing Beaches, Swim Clubs and Swimming Pools, Municipal
- Ch 182 Beaches, Cleaning of
- Ch 185 (Reserved)
- Ch 189 Beach Protection
- Ch 192 Beach Shelters and Tents
- Ch 198 Boat Docks and Bulkheads, Public
- Ch 201 Boat Facility and Bulkhead Construction
- Ch 205 Bridge Area Restrictions
- Ch 210 (Reserved)
- Ch 213 Building Material, Lumber and Plumbing Supply Yards, Secondhand
- Ch 217 Buildings for Public Assemblages, Temporary
- Ch 221 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 224 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 228 Buildings, Unfit and Unsafe
- Ch 232 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 234 Cannabis
- Ch 238 Carnivals, Circuses and Traveling Shows
- Ch 245 Condominiums
- Ch 252 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 253 Continued Use and Occupancy of Residential Dwellings
- Ch 264 Driveway Accesses and Curbs for Commercial Properties
- Ch 269 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 273 Dwellings, Design and Appearance of
- Ch 277 Electrical Standards
- Ch 280 (Reserved)
- Ch 287 Fees
- Ch 291 Fences, Plantings and Walls
- Ch 294 Fertilizer
- Ch 295 Filming
- Ch 297 Fire Hydrants and Equipment
- Ch 300 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 303 (Reserved)
- Ch 308 Fire Prevention and Protection
- Ch 310 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 313 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 316 Food Stands and Restaurants, Outdoor
- Ch 321 Games of Chance and Amusement Games
- Ch 325 Golf Courses
- Ch 327 Graffiti
- Ch 330 Hazardous and Toxic Materials
- Ch 335 Housing and Rental Property Standards
- Ch 338 Hunting
- Ch 340 Invasive Plants
- Ch 344 Junkyards and Salvage Yards
- Ch 348 Land Use and Development Regulations
- Ch 354 Laser Pointers
- Ch 356 Littering
- Ch 357 Massage Parlors
- Ch 363 Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 368 Nuisances
- Ch 378 Parking Lots at Recreation Areas
- Ch 383 Parks, Municipal
- Ch 388 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 391 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 396 (Reserved)
- Ch 399 (Reserved)
- Ch 408 Realty Improvements: Water and Sewage Facilities
- Ch 413 Sales, Special
- Ch 415 Precious Metals and Secondhand Goods
- Ch 417 Septic Tanks, Cesspools and Privy Vaults
- Ch 421 Sewers
- Ch 427 Signs
- Ch 430 Skateboards, Sporting Activities and Hobbyists
- Ch 433 Smoking
- Ch 438 (Reserved)
- Ch 440 Special Improvement District
- Ch 442 Solid Waste
- Ch 447 Street Acceptance Procedure
- Ch 448 Street Vacation Procedures
- Ch 450 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 457 Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers
- Ch 462 Tobacco Products, Sale of
- Ch 465 (Reserved)
- Ch 468 Towing
- Ch 469 Traffic Control Signal Monitoring System
- Ch 471 Trees
- Ch 473 Property Registration Program
- Ch 477 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 481 Vehicles, Inoperative
- Ch 485 Vehicles, Sale or Storage on Vacant Land
- Ch 488 Vehicles, Snowmobiles and All-Terrain
- Ch 492 Vehicles, Unlicensed Motor-Driven
- Ch 495 Water Connections
- Ch 497 (Reserved)
- Ch 501 Waterway Control
- Part III: Board of Health
- Ch 512 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 516 Animals
- Ch 520 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 524 Dumping
- Ch 531 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 534 Food-Handling Establishments, Retail
- Ch 537 Food, Sale of
- Ch 542 Health Nuisances
- Ch 551 Officers and Employees
- Ch 555 Personnel Policies
- Ch 558 Plumbing Standards
- Ch 561 Privies, Outdoor
- Ch 566 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 569 Sanitary Facility Certification Fees
- Ch 572 Sewerage Connections
- Ch 575 Slaughtering and Slaughterhouses
- Ch 579 Swimming Pools, Public
- Ch 585 Vital Statistics Certificate Information
- Ch 589 Water Supplies
- Appendix
- Ch A598 Cable Television Franchise
- Ch A602 Names of Major Arteries, Streets and Highways
- Ch A605 Open Video Franchise
- Ch A608 Record of Result of 2006 Election
- Ch A610 Street Name Changes
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 12-9-2008 by Ord. No. 4168-08[1]]
There are hereby established the following minimum standards
for the maintenance of the types and kinds of animals listed below,
in this municipality:
A.
Not more than one cow per acre of land shall be housed or maintained.
B.
Not more than one horse per acre of land shall be housed or maintained.
C.
Not more than seven goats per acre of land shall be housed or maintained.
D.
Not more than seven sheep per acre of land shall be housed or maintained.
No person, firm or organization shall maintain any animal or
animals in a larger or greater quantity or in a smaller area than
listed in the minimum standards hereof.
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of a violation of
any of the provisions of this article shall suffer a penalty of:
If any person, firm or corporation shall violate any of the
provisions of this article on more than one day, the violator may
be prosecuted by a separate action for any violation committed on
any day.
A.
The Township Clerk shall send the Superintendent of Buildings of
this municipality a certified copy of this article as soon as it is
effective. Said Superintendent shall:
(1)
Carefully examine all plans and drawings for barns and farm buildings
proposed to be hereafter constructed, reconstructed or remodeled.
(2)
Ascertain the land area in the farm or area on which the proposed
construction is to be performed, to the end that if either the proposed
building is designed so as to violate the provisions of this article
or the land area is insufficient, under the terms of this article,
no building permit may be issued.
B.
If, in the construction of the proposed building, it shall appear
to the Superintendent of Buildings or the Municipal Building Inspector
that the building has been constructed in such a manner that its use
would violate the provisions of this article, no general certificate
of occupancy or use shall be issued for said building; but only a
limited certificate of occupancy or use shall be issued for its lawful
use under the terms of this article.
All the provisions of §§ 165-14 through 165-17 of said article shall apply only to commercial farms, each having 10 or more animals of any type or types referred to in § 165-14 of said article. The following categories are exempted from the provisions of said article being amended and supplemented hereby:
