The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-11-04
AN ORDINANCE

dogs, regulating and prohibiting their run
ming at large, and providing for the i'm
pounding and killing or otherwise dispos-
ing of dogs and fixing certain penalties,
and to impose taxes on the owners or keep
3 erS of dogs.
Section 1. Be it Ordained by the Town
ship Committee of the Township of Egg Har-
Dor, New Jersey, that every owner of, or
person who harbors or has the custody of, or
who keeps a dog within the limits of the
Township of Egg Harbor, shall report to the
Township Clerk annually, within thirty days
after the first day of January in each year,
his or her name and address, and shall give
the name, breed, color and sex of each and
every dog owned or kept by such person, and
shall pay to such officer the sum of one dol
lar for each and every male dog and one dol
lar for each open bitch, and cause such dog
or dogs to be registered for license in the
office of the Township Clerk, who shall fur
nish the owner or keeper of the same with i
license tag, the shape of which tag shall be
changed each year and shall have stamped
upon it the year in which granted and Egg
Harbor Township D.. L., and also the num-
Der of the tag, which shall correspond with
the number of the license issued to such
owner.
Section 2. Be it further ordained that the
Township Clerk shall keep a registry book,
entering therein the name and address of the
owner or keeper, description of dog, and the
number of license tag issued, for which SER
vice and other service required by this ordi-
nance the Township Clerk shall retain out
of said fee the sum of twelve cents for each
license issued.
Section 8. Be it further ordained that ev-
cry dog shall be provided by its owner or
keeper with a leather or chain collar to
which said license tag shall be securely fas-
tened, and every dog shall be muzzled or
kept in close confinement upon the premises
occupied by its owner or keeper for a period
from August LIST to November LIST in each
year. Nc dog shall be permitted to remain
within the limits of the Township of Egg
Harbor unless registered, licensed and tagged
and muzzled or confined during the aforesaid
Ioptn1 nnd nnu xTnnr or nom Failing IN
provide such collar, tag or muzzle or to keep
said dog confined as aforesaid, shall be sub
ject to the fines or penalty hereinafter pro-
vided.
Section 4. Be it further ordained that
whenever the Township Uni shall
deem it necessary, it shall issue an order
prohibiting for a certain time therein speci-
fled all dogs from running at large on any
or all streets, highways or public places in
said Township unless such dog be led by a
line or chain so as to prevent them from
biting persons on said highways or public
places, which order shall be published in
some newspaper circulating in said Township
for one publication.
Section 5. Be it further ordained that any
police officer or special policeman of Egg
Harbor Township or member of the Township
Committee shall have power to kill any dog,
which may be found in the Township with
out an owner or keeper, and which may be
running at large, provided that such dog
cannot be safely taken up or impounded,
and no dog shall be subject to molestation
under this ordinance or under any order OF
said Township Committee while on the prem
Uses of its owner or keeper, or while held or
led by a chain or line by any person. :.
Section 6. Be it further ordained, that If
any fierce or dangerous dog, known to be
such, shall be found at large in the streets or
public highways of this Township or upon
the private premises of any one but its owner
or keeper, and shall annoy or endanger any
person thereon, the owner or keeper thereof
shall pay to the Township of Egg Harbor a
fine as hereinafter provided.
Section 7. Be 1t further ordained, that If
complaint be made and filed with any Justice
Of the Peace residing in Egg Harbor Town
ship or the Township Recorder, that any dog
has in any manner disturbed the quiet of any
person or neighborhood, or has bitten a per-
son within said Township, and that the per-
son so bitten was not trespassing upon the
premises of the owner or keeper of the dog,
the said Justice of the Peace or Township
Recorder shall issue a summons returnable
in not less than two nor more than fifteen
days, and upon the return thereof said JUS
tice of the Peace or Township Recorder shall
hear and determine the matter and If it shall
appear that such dog has disturbed the quiet
of any person or nelghborhood, or has bitten
any person not a trespasser on the premises
of the owner or keeper of the dog, the said
Justice of the Peace or Township Recorder
shall have power to order said dog to be re-
moved or killed and shall issue am order to
the owner or keeper of said dog to remove
or kill said dog within twenty-four hours
from the time of receiving said order, and II
said order be not obeyed within said time,
any police officer or special policeman OF
Egg Harbor Township or member of the
Township Committee may remove, impound
or kill said dog.
Section 8. Be it further ordained that the
word dog as used in this ordinance shall
apply to a female as well as a male dog.
Section 8. Be 1t further ordained that
whenever any penalty is imposed by this or
dlnance on the owner or keeper of a dog
upon conviction of any violation for which a
penalty Is provided, before a Justice of the
Peace residing in said Township or the Town
ship Recorder, a fine of any amount not ex-
ceeding twenty-five dollars shall be Imposed
upon such owner or keeper or Imprisonment
In the County Jail in case of failure to pay
said fine, of one day for each dollar of fine
imposed.
Section 10. Be 1t further ordained that all
ordinances or parts of ordinances lnconslst-
ent herewith are hereby repealed, aud that
this ordinance shall take effect Immediately,
Passed and approved at a meeting Of the
Township Committee of Egg Harbor Town
ship, New Jersey, held October 21, 1915.
JOHN IL. SMITH,
Chairman Township Committee.
Attest
CHARLES l.. SMITH,