Highlands, New Jersey

§ 5-2.1 License, When Required.

Licenses shall be required for the following dogs of licensing age:

a. Any dog owned or kept within the borough by a resident of the borough on January 1 of any calendar year.

b. Any dog acquired by a person during the course of any calendar year and kept within the borough for more than ten days after acquisition.

c. Any dog attaining licensing age during the course of the calendar year.

d. Any unlicensed dog brought into the borough by any person and kept within the borough for more than ten days.

e. Any dog licensed by another state brought into the borough by any person and kept within the borough for more than 90 days.

§ 5-2.5 Fees.

The person applying for a license shall pay a fee of eighteen ($18.00) dollars for each dog that is neutered and twenty-one ($21.00) dollars for nonneutered dogs. Such person shall also pay any registration fee, clinic fee, population control fee, or other fee required by the State of New Jersey. The New Jersey population control fee shall only be charged for non-spayed/non-neutered animals. The owner of any dog may, if the license tag is mislaid, lost or stolen, procure a duplicate tag upon the payment of one ($1.00) dollar.

§ 5-14.1 Licensing.

Every person, firm or corporation that owns, harbors or keeps a cat more than six months of age on January 1 of any year, or six months of age within the license year, shall annually or within 30 days from the date such cat becomes six months of age, obtain a license for each cat from the borough clerk. The license year shall commence on January 1 and end on the following December 31. Such cat license, if paid on or before March 1, shall be eighteen ($18.00) dollars for each altered cat and twenty-one ($21.00) dollars for nonneutered cats. An increased fee of two ($2.00) dollars per cat license shall be paid by all persons purchasing cat licenses after March 1 or more than three months after such cat becomes six months of age. Each applicant for a cat license shall present a valid Certificate of Vaccination before being issued a license. All funds received from cat licenses shall be paid into the general fund of the borough.