Borough of Netcong, NJ
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2023-12-14
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 105 Animals
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Article IV Animal Owner Responsibilities and Animal Cruelty
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Administration, Department of
- Ch 10 Claims Approval
- Ch 11 Clean Up Cost Recovery
- Ch 13 Court, Municipal
- Ch 16 Criminal Background Checks
- Ch 18 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 Emergency Management
- Ch 22 Fire Department
- Ch 26 Health Benefits
- Ch 29 Health, Board of
- Ch 36 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 40 Municipal Alliance Committee
- Ch 45 Officers and Employees
- Ch 50 Personnel Policies and Procedures
- Ch 54 Police Department
- Ch 56 Public Works Department
- Ch 63 Regional Planning Council
- Ch 65 Retirement
- Ch 68 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 73 Sewerage Authority
- Ch 75 Special Improvement District
- Ch 79 Water Commissioners, Board of
- Ch 80 Solid Waste and Recycling Utility
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 91 Air Pollution
- Ch 95 Alarms
- Ch 98 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 101 Amusement Devices
- Ch 105 Animals
- Ch 105 Art IV Animal Owner Responsibilities and Animal Cruelty
- § 105-34 Responsibilities of animal owners.
- § 105-35 Animal cruelty and abandonment.
- Ch 112 Brush and Hedges
- Ch 117 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 120 Buildings, Unfit
- Ch 122 Cannabis
- Ch 127 Certificates of Habitability
- Ch 131 Checks, Fraudulent
- Ch 135 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 138 Clothing Bins
- Ch 140 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 144 Curfew
- Ch 149 Drug-Free Areas
- Ch 151 Engine Braking
- Ch 153 Excavations
- Ch 155 Fees
- Ch 157 Fire Prevention
- Ch 164 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 169 Food and Beverage Vendors, Licensing
- Ch 176 Games of Chance
- Ch 183 Hawking, Peddling, Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 186 Housing Standards
- Ch 190 Illicit Connections to Stormwater System
- Ch 191 Improper Disposal of Waste
- Ch 192 Insurance Liens
- Ch 194 Land Development Procedures
- Ch 198 Lawn Fertilizer
- Ch 199 Lead-Based Paint Inspection for Residential Dwellings
- Ch 200 Littering
- Ch 202 (Reserved)
- Ch 209 Milk Vendors
- Ch 213 Money Escort Service
- Ch 214 Noise
- Ch 215 Occupancy Limitations on Residential Housing
- Ch 217 Parks
- Ch 220 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 222 Pet Waste
- Ch 223 Yard Waste
- Ch 225 Property Maintenance
- Ch 226 Registration of Foreclosing Mortgaged Property and Vacant Property
- Ch 227 Recreation
- Ch 228 Rental Property
- Ch 230 Rooming and Boarding Houses
- Ch 234 Sales, Personal Property
- Ch 238 Sewers
- Ch 240 Smoking
- Ch 243 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 245 Soil Removal and Relocation
- Ch 247 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 252 Taxation
- Ch 255 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 259 Theaters and Opera Houses
- Ch 262 Towing
- Ch 266 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 268 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 271 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 276 Water
- Part III: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 281 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 284 Food-Handling Establishments, Retail
- Ch 288 Health Nuisances
- Ch 295 Individual Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems
- Ch 300 Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 307 Water Systems, Public Noncommunity and Nonpublic
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Added 6-10-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-12]
A.
No person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog
or animal shall permit such dog or animal to soil, defile, defecate
or to commit any nuisance upon any sidewalk, street or thoroughfare
or in or upon any public park, playground or other public place or
upon the private property of persons other than the owner or person
having the care, custody or control of such dog or animal.
B.
No person owning or having the care, custody or control of any dog
or animal shall suffer or permit such dog or animal to:
(1)
Soil or defile or do any injury or damage to any lawn, vegetable
garden, shrubbery, trees, flowers, driveway, ground or any property
of persons other than that of the owner or person having the care,
custody or control of such dog or animal.
(2)
Cause any injury to any person.
(3)
Bark, cry, whine, howl or otherwise disturb the peace or quiet of
the neighborhood or the sleep of any person for any unreasonable length
of time.
(4)
Be or become a public nuisance or to create a condition hazardous
to the public health, safety and welfare of the Borough.
C.
The habitual barking, howling, whining or crying of a dog or dogs
or the howling of a cat or cats in the Borough of Netcong is hereby
declared to be a disturbing noise within the meaning of N.J.S.A. 40:48-1,
Subsection 8, and a nuisance.
D.
Any conviction of a violation of this article shall be punishable
by a fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment for a term not to
exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
A.
Animal cruelty and the inhumane treatment of animals as defined,
prohibited and penalized in N.J.S.A. 4:22-17 et seq., is hereby adopted
by reference, and such conduct shall be unlawful within the Borough
of Netcong.
B.
The abandonment of any disabled or domesticated animal as defined,
prohibited and penalized in N.J.S.A. 4:22-20 et seq., is hereby adopted
by reference, and such conduct shall be unlawful within the Borough
of Netcong.
