The Penn's Grove record., 1921-06-03
An Ordinance
For the Licensing and Register
ing of Dogs in the Township
of Oldmans


Be it Ordained BY the Township Com
mittee Of the Township Of OIdmans,
County of Salem, and State of New
Jersey:
Section l.. That an annual license
fee of Sl.0G for each male dog. and
$l.00 for each female dog is hereby
mpos upon all dogs in the Township
of Oldmans, to be paid by the owners
thereof (the harboring of a dog or dogs
shall be evidence of ownership for the
purpose of such license) which amount
shall be levied each year by the AS
SCISSOR at the time of making the gen.
eral assessment of taxes and collected
in the same manner as other taxes
Sec. 2. That every person who shall
own, keep Or harbOr any such dog or
dogs shal have the same registered
and numbered with the Township
Clerk, ana shall place upon the neck
ef each dog OF dogs, kept or harbored,
a collar upon which shall be fastened
or suspended a metal tag showing the
registered number thereof. And the
person applying for registration shall
pay the sum of S1.00 for each animal
thus registered, of which the. Clerk
shall receive twelve cents for each
registration, the balance of the regis
tration fee to be applied to pay the
damage done by dogs to domestic ami
mails or poultry after the same shall
have been appraised by the freeholders
as authorized and directed by Pamphlet
Laws of the State of New Jersey for
1901. page $50. etc.
Sec. 3. That every owner or har-
borer of any dog or dogs shall, when
ever the Township Committee issues a
proclamation forbidding the owners of
dogs to allow dogs to run at large
without being properly secured by
muzzle, strap or otherwise, in such
manner that they cannot bite. during the
months of July and August, or any the
time when the epidemic of Hydropho-
bia is prevailing; conform to the re-
quirements of this ordinance and said
proclamation and all dogs whose own
ers shall disregard this ordinance and
said proclamation shall be taken into
custody by some person or persons APP
pointed for that purpose by the Town
ship Committee, and said dogs shall be
put in a proper place of confinement
for three days, for which service the
person so appointed shall receive the
sum of $1.00 for each dog so taken, and
twenty-five cents per day for its board
and attention which fee shall include
the killing of the dog or dogs.
Sec. /. hi if the owner OF any dog so
impOunded Will pay the above charges
he shall have possession of his dog,
but if not called for at the end Of three
days then it shall be the duty of the
Dog Warden to have said dog killed.
Sec. 5. The Township Committee
shall appoint a fit and proper person,
who, upon appointment. shall become
a police officer of said Township of
Oldmans, who shall be known as the
Dog Warden, who shall hold office for
the term of one year. 1t shall be the
duty of said Warden to take up and
impound, in a manner to be approved
by the Township Committee, every dog
found upon any of the streets, high
ways or public places of the Township,
contrary to any of the provisions of
this ordinance, and to keep every such
animal so impounded for the term of
three days or until the owner shall re-
deem it by paying to the Dog Warden,
for the use of the Township, the sum
of S1.00, and also the sum of twenty
five cents per day for the expenses of
keeping and feeding each dog SO re-
deemed. But if no owner appears,
within three days after the taking up
and impounding of any dog, to redeem
same that then, and in every case it
shall be lawful for the said Dog War
den to kill and bury every dog so by
him taken up and i~mpounded.
Sec. 6. And be it further ordained
that said Dog Warden shall receive his
compensation from the Township Com
mittee by presenting his bill duly au-
thenticated setting forth the time and
place of the taking of each dog and
the time same has been ~impounded, and
the date of the killing thereof, and a
statement of payments received from
owners All fees or payments received
by the Dog Warden from owners. shall
be paid Immediately to the Collector of
the Township. The term dog or dogs
in the above ordinance shall be taken
to apply equally to male and female
dogs. The license fee shall be in ad-
dition to the registry fee.
This ordinance is to take effect inn
mediately and all dog owners shall for
the current year be required to regis
ter their dogs within thirty days after
the first day of June. 1921. after which
date all dogs shall be liable to seizure
by the Dog Warden.
Notice is hereby given that the
Township Committee of Town
ship, on the 18th day of June. 1921. at
Z o'clock P. NJ, in Red Mems Hall, will
consider the final passage of the fore
going ordinance, at which time any
and all objections will be heard.
C. O. CITIZENS,
6-3-1t Township Clerk.