Borough of Berlin, NJ
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2023-06-08
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 89 Animals
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Article II Running at Large of Dogs
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Celebration Advisory Committee
- Ch 7 Claims Procedure
- Ch 8 Community Center, Use of
- Ch 9 Contracts, Public
- Ch 11 Court, Municipal
- Ch 13 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 16 Business Advisory Committee
- Ch 18 Emergency and Ambulance Services
- Ch 20 Fire Department
- Ch 25 Health, Board of
- Ch 28 Historic Preservation Commission
- Ch 35 Local Assistance Board
- Ch 42 Nepotism
- Ch 46 Officers and Employees
- Ch 47 Open Space Trust Fund
- Ch 49 Personnel Policies
- Ch 52 Police Department
- Ch 55 Political Fund-Raising
- Ch 59 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 61 Retirement
- Ch 62 Salaries
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 67 Water Department
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 76 Airports
- Ch 79 Alarms
- Ch 80 Key Lock Box Emergency Access System
- Ch 82 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 86 (Reserved)
- Ch 89 Animals
- Ch 89 Art II Running at Large of Dogs
- § 89-9 Unleashed dogs running at large prohibited.
- § 89-10 Impounding of untagged dogs.
- § 89-11 Running at large.
- § 89-12 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 92 Bamboo and Other Invasive Plant Species
- Ch 98 Boardinghouses, Rooming Houses and Hotels
- Ch 101 Brush, Weeds and Obnoxious Debris
- Ch 105 Buildings and Structures, Dangerous and Unfit
- Ch 111 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 119 Checks, Returned
- Ch 129 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 132 Contractors and Sign Erectors
- Ch 136 Criminal Registration
- Ch 140 Curfew
- Ch 148 Drug- and Drunk-Driving-Free Zones
- Ch 150 Disturbing the Peace
- Ch 162 Fire Prevention
- Ch 167 Flood Management Regulations
- Ch 173 Games of Chance
- Ch 176 Garage Sales
- Ch 179 Gas- and Oil-Burning Equipment
- Ch 182 Gasoline Service Stations
- Ch 188 Hazardous Substances
- Ch 190 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 193 Housing, Affordable
- Ch 197 Insurance
- Ch 207 Littering
- Ch 211 Loitering
- Ch 218 Mercantile Licenses
- Ch 226 Nuisances
- Ch 232 Parking
- Ch 234 Parking Areas, Municipal
- Ch 236 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 237 Nonprofit Organizations
- Ch 238 Precious Metals, Gems and Secondhand Goods, Dealers in
- Ch 241 Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 244 Property, Defaulted Mortgage
- Ch 246 Property Maintenance
- Ch 253 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 256 Rental Properties
- Ch 261 Sewers
- Ch 263 Sex Offender Residency Prohibition
- Ch 266 Shows, Circuses, Carnivals and Amusements
- Ch 268 Signs
- Ch 270 Smoking
- Ch 274 Soil Removal
- Ch 278 Solid Waste
- Ch 282 Sound Trucks
- Ch 284 Storm Sewers
- Ch 285 Stormwater Management
- Ch 287 Streets, Sidewalks and Curbs
- Ch 292 Swimming Pools
- Ch 296 Tattooing, Body Piercing and Body Branding
- Ch 299 Taxation
- Ch 301 Taxicabs
- Ch 306 Towing
- Ch 309 Trailers and Camp Cars
- Ch 315 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 320 Vehicles, Unlicensed
- Ch 327 Water
- Ch 332 Youth Programs
- Ch 335 Zoning and Land Use
- Ch 336 Stormwater Control
- Part III, Board of Health Legislation
- Ch 341 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 345 Cannabis and Cannabis Products
- Ch 355 Sanitation
- Ch 358 Sewer Connections
- Appendix
- Ch A365 Cable Television Franchise
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 6-17-1968 by Ord. No. 68-3 as Ch. 33, Art. II of the 1968 Code]
From and after the passage of this article,
it shall be unlawful for any and all dogs to run at large in or about
the streets, highways, roads and public places in the Borough of Berlin,
or to be upon or in any of such places, unless such dog or dogs shall
be lead on a chain, leash or line.
Any dog or dogs found in the Borough of Berlin
not wearing its proper official license tag or found running at large
may be seized by such person or persons as the Chief of Police or
the Borough Council of the Borough of Berlin may from time to time
appoint for that purpose; any dog or dogs so seized shall be impounded
for the period required by law and, if not claimed within said time,
may then be destroyed as provided by law.
No person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog
or dogs in the Borough of Berlin shall permit the same to run at large
at any time within the municipal limits of the Borough of Berlin.
[Amended 10-10-1985 by Ord. No. 85-19]
Each and every person violating any of the provisions
of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine
of not less than $100 and not more than $500 or imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge
before whom such conviction shall be had.
