The Township may engage the services of any qualified person or corporation to act and serve as the official Animal Warden of the Township, and may enter into an appropriate contract for the employment of such person or corporation authorizing such official Animal Warden to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
No owner of any dog shall permit such dog to scatter, spill or otherwise disturb any household trash set out or placed for Municipal trash pickup. (Ord. 415. Passed 7-21-76.)
The hunting of animals or fowl within the Municipality is prohibited. No person shall hunt, kill or attempt to kill any animal or fowl by the use of firearms or any other means. However, nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the killing of rats and other undesirable rodents authorized to be killed by the Chief of Police using means for such killing which are also authorized by the Chief.
610.095 CURBING OF DOGS, CATS, ETC.
No person, being the owner, harborer or keeper of, or being in charge or control of, any dog, cat or other small animal within the Township, shall cause, suffer or allow such dog, cat or other small animal to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park or other place where people congregate or walk, or on any public property whatsoever, or on any private property without the express permission and consent of the owner of said property, without immediately providing for the clean-up of any excrement dropped by such dog, cat or other small animal as prohibited above. (Ord. 738. Passed 5-17-95.)
All costs incurred by either the Township or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals in the enforcement of this chapter shall be the obligation of the owner of the animal and shall be immediately payable upon demand by the Township. Upon failure to pay the aforesaid costs, the owner shall be liable for said costs pursuant to Section 610.99. (Ord. 666. Passed 7-18-90.)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: See Section 202.99 for general Code penalty if no specific penalty is provided.)
(a) In cases involving a violation of any of the provisions of Section 610.1 and Sections 610.03 through 610.08, it shall be the duty of the police officers and/or the Animal Warden of the Township to deliver to the owner of the dog involved a written notice within forty-eight hours of the violation, either by personally serving the same upon the owner or by mailing the same to the owner at his last known address, by registered mail, which notice shall specify the license number of the dog, if any, a general description of the dog and the date, time, place and nature of the violation. Each such owner may, within forty-eight hours from the time of receipt of such notice, pay at the Township Administration Office, as a penalty for and in full consideration of such violation, twenty-five dollars ($25.00). When a dog owner receives a second, third and fourth notice thereafter within any twelve-month period for any violation, the penalty shall he fifty dollars ($50.00), one hundred dollars ($100.00) and three hundred dollars ($800.00), respectively. The police officers and Animal Warden may at any time file a complaint rather than issue a notice, but a complaint shall be filed for each violation over four in any twelve-month period. Any owner who violates any of the provisions of Sections 610.01 through 610.08 or fails to pay the aforesaid penalty shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) for each violation, to be collected by the District Justice as like fines and penalties are now, by existing law, collected. (Ord. 544. Passed 2-17-82; Ord. 725. Passed 6-15-94.)
(b) Whoever violates Section 610.08 shall be fined ten dollars ($10.00) for each offense in addition to the penalty provided in subsection (a) hereof. (Ord. 415. Passed 7-21-76.)
1997 Replacement
(c)
Penalties provided for the violation of
Section Chapter 610.02 shall be as follows: First
Offense $ 50.00 Fine Second Offense $ 75.00 Fine Third Offense $ 100.00 Fine
Fourth Offense & Subsequent Offenses (Minimum Fine) $ 300.00 Fine.
(Ord. 798. Passed 3-21-2002.)
2002 Replacement