§ 300-8. Animal nuisances.

A. 

No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any cat shall cause, suffer or allow such animal to soil, defile or defecate upon any private and/or public property.

B. 

Any person who causes, suffers or allows any such animal to defecate anywhere, except in an area as permitted, shall remove all feces deposited by such animal by a sanitary method. All pet owners/keepers are required to dispose immediately and properly of their pet's solid waste deposited on any property, public or private.

C. 

The sanitary manner for removal of feces shall be by the placement of the removed feces in a sealed plastic bag and then further placed in said person's own garbage or waste removal container and shall not be by placement of the feces, whether in a sealed plastic bag or not, in any garbage or waste container owned or maintained by the Borough of Fanwood or any garbage or waste container of any other person or entity or storm sewer.

Editor's Note: This ordinance also renumbered former § 300-8, Violations and penalties, as § 300-10. Said section was subsequently renumbered as § 300-11 pursuant to Board of Health Ord. No. 15-05-03.

Added 12-1-2011 by Ord. No. 11-09-02 (Board of Health)