BOROUGH OF HO-HO-KUS
ORDINANCE # 966
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 18 OF THE CODE ENTITLED “DOGS”
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus as follows:
Section I.
Section 18-6. Regulations is amended and supplemented as follows:
A. No change.
B. No change.
C. No change.
D. Owner to remedy nuisance. In the event that any dog shall, through inadvertence or
otherwise, soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance in any place, including the portion of
the public street, if there are no curbs, the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of such
dog or in custody of such dog shall immediately remove all feces and/or all dog soil deposited by
such dog by any sanitary method, thereafter disposing of the same in a sealed, nonabsorbent, leak
proof container. In no event shall any person dispose of any feces, dog soil or any type of
receptacle containing same into any public trash receptacle, stormwater drain or sewage system.
Section II.
Repealer
All other provisions of this chapter which are not affected by this amendatory Ordinance are
hereby ratified and confirmed and shall remain in full force and effect. However, all ordinances or
parts of ordinances, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this amendatory Ordinance are
hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
Section III.
Severability
If any portion of this Ordinance is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of
competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not affect or invalidate the remainder of this Ordinance,
but shall be confined in its effect to the provision directly involved in the controversy in which such
judgment shall have been rendered.
Section IV.
Effective Date
This ordinance shall take effect after final passage and publication as required by law.
Attest:
Thomas W. Randall, Mayor
Laura Borchers, Borough Clerk, RMC
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the proposed Ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading at a Regular Meeting of
the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, New Jersey, June 22, 2010 and that said
Ordinance was taken up for final consideration at a meeting of the said Mayor and Council held in the Borough Hall, in
the Borough of Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, New Jersey, July 27, 2010 at which time it was adopted.
Laura Borchers, Borough Clerk, RMC