Long Hill, New Jersey

§ 5-1.3 License Required; Number Limitation.

No person shall keep or harbor or suffer the keeping or harboring within the Township any dog without first obtaining a license, to be issued by the Township Clerk upon application by the owner or some person on behalf of the owner and payment of the prescribed fee, and no person shall keep or harbor any dog in the Township except in compliance with the provisions of this section and the provisions for the control of dogs contained in N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.1 through 19-15.29 and any amendments thereof. Licenses for not more than three dogs for any one household may be issued for the same period; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the Township Committee, upon application to it and upon the showing of special and exceptional circumstances, to authorize by resolution the issuance of one or more additional licenses. Any additional dog of licensing age, over three in number, and not specifically authorized by the Township Committee as herein provided, shall make the person owning or harboring it liable for owning or harboring an unlicensed dog.

§ 5-1.5 Fees; Guide Dog Exemption.

a. The dog owner or some person on his or her behalf shall apply for a one-year license and registration tag for each dog. The fee for a one-year license and registration tag shall be $22.20 for each spayed/neutered dog and $25.20 for each unspayed/neutered dog.

b. Twenty-one dollars from each one-year fee shall be retained by the Township for the Dog Damage Trust Account. One dollar twenty cents from each one-year fee shall be forwarded to the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services (“DHSS”) in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.11 and 15.3c and any amendments thereto and $3 from each one-year fee for an unspayed/unneutered dog shall be forwarded to DHSS in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.3b and any amendments thereto.