Union Township, New Jersey (Union County)

§ 208-1 Definitions.

A. Words defined. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

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KENNEL

Any establishment wherein or whereon the business of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a pet shop.

§ 208-2 License required; wild, exotic and hybrid animals.

A. No person shall keep or harbor any dog within the Township of Union in the County of Union without first obtaining a license therefor, to be issued by the Clerk of the Township, upon application by the owner and payment of the prescribed fee; and no person shall keep or harbor any dog in said Township, except in compliance with the provisions of this article.

§ 208-4 License and registration fees; exemptions from fees.

A. The person applying for the license and registration tag shall pay a fee of $14, which fee shall include the twenty-cents-per-dog fee for the State Pilot Clinic Fund. In addition, the sum of $1 for the state registration tag of each dog shall be paid. For each annual renewal, the fee for the license, inclusive of the Pilot Clinic Fund, and for the registration tag shall be the same as for the original license and tag. Said licenses, registration tags and renewals thereof shall expire on the last day of January in each year.

B. In compliance with P.L. 1983, c. 172, any person applying for the license and registration tag above mentioned shall pay an additional state fee of $3 for any dog of reproductive age which has not had its reproductive capacity permanently altered through sterilization.

§ 208-9 Fees for kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds.

The annual license fee for a kennel providing accommodations for 10 or fewer dogs shall be $10 and for more than 10 dogs, $25. The annual license fee for a pet shop shall be $10. No fee shall be charged for a shelter or pound. The licenses herein provided for shall expire on the last day of January of each year.

§ 208-10 Dogs in kennels, pet shops, shelters or pounds; leash and safe controls.

No dog kept in a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall be permitted off such premises, except on leash or in a crate or other safe control.

§ 208-26 Licensing requirements.

A. Display of license number. Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a cat of licensing age shall annually apply for and procure from the Clerk of the municipality, or other official designated by the governing body thereof to license cats in the municipality in which he/she resides, a license and official registration tag with license number or a registration sleeve for each cat so owned, kept or harbored and shall place upon such cat a collar or other device with the license number securely fastened thereto or displayed thereon. Acceptable methods of displaying the license number shall include but are not limited to breakaway or elastic collars. License tags or sleeves are not transferable.

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G. License fee schedule.

(1) A license shall be issued after payment of a fee of $18 for each unneutered cat and $13 for each neutered cat.