Cresskill, New Jersey

§ 80-1 Definitions.

For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

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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.

§ 80-5 License and vaccination required.

A. No person shall own, keep or harbor any dog or cat of licensing age within the Borough unless such dog or cat has been licensed by the Department of Health, upon application by the owner and payment of the prescribed fee. Such animal shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian, in accordance with the latest Compendium of Animal Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization, published by the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Inc.

§ 80-8 Fees; Seeing Eye dogs: fee exemption.

A. Any person applying for a one-year license and registration tag shall pay a fee of $15 for each neutered or spayed dog; the one-year license and registration tag for an unaltered dog shall cost $20. The above fees include the costs of rabies inoculations by a participating veterinarian. A certificate for such inoculation shall be issued whenever Board of Health records indicate that a dog is due for inoculation in the license year, or when a dog is first licensed in the Borough. The licensing period shall commence on February 1 of each year and shall expire one year from the date thereof.

§ 80-12 Kennels, animal hospitals, pet shops, shelters and pounds.

A. Any person who keeps or operates or proposes to establish a kennel, an animal hospital, a pet shop, a shelter or a pound shall apply to the Animal Control Officer or other person designated by the Mayor and Council to license dogs and cats for a license entitling him to keep or operate such establishment.

B. The application shall describe the premises where the establishment is located or is proposed to be located, the purpose or purposes for which it is to be maintained and shall be accompanied by the written approval of the Health Officer of the Board of Health of the Borough, showing compliance with the local and state rules and regulations governing location of and sanitation at such establishments.

C. All licenses issued for a kennel, animal hospital, pet shop, shelter or pound shall state the purpose for which the establishment is maintained, and all such licenses shall expire on the last day of June of each year and shall be subject to revocation by the Mayor and Council on recommendations of the State Department of Health or the Board of Health of the Borough for failure to comply with the rules and regulations of the State Department of Health or the Board of Health of the Borough governing the same after the owner has been afforded a hearing by either the State Department of Health or the Board of Health of the Borough.

D. Any person holding such license shall not be required to secure individual licenses for dogs or cats owned by such licensee and kept at such establishments, and such licenses shall not be transferable to another owner or different premises.

E. Every such kennel, animal hospital, pet shop, shelter or pound shall be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations in regard thereto as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Council. Any premises so used and all buildings and enclosures thereon shall be kept clean and sanitary. All animal carcasses shall be immediately and properly disposed of and shall not be buried within the Borough limits. Any Health Officer or police officer of the Borough shall have the right, at any reasonable hour in the day or nighttime, to enter into such premises and any buildings and enclosures thereon and to make such examination thereof as he shall deem proper.

§ 80-13 Fees for kennels, animal hospitals and pet shops.

The annual license fee for a kennel providing accommodations for 10 or less dogs shall be $10, and for more than 10 dogs, the fee shall be $25. The annual license fee for an animal hospital providing accommodations for 10 or less dogs, cats or other animals shall be $10, and for more than ten dogs, cats or other animals, the fee shall be $25. The annual license fee for a pet shop shall be $10. No fee shall be charged for a shelter or pound.