Please be a responsible pet owner and make arrangements for your pet(s) if you will be away from home for an extended period of time. If you can't take your pet with you when you move out, a local animal shelter is a better alternative than abandonment.

:: New Brunswick Dog Ordinance 

9-8.3   Interference with official Duties. No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized or empowered to perform any duty under this chapter.

9-8.4   Disturbing the Peace. No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any dog which habitually barks or cries between the hours of 8:00pm and 8:00am.

9-8.5   Running at large. No person owning, keeping, or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit it to run at large upon the public streets or in any public park, public building or other public place within the city.

9-8.6   Leashing of dogs. No person owning, keeping, or harboring any dog shall suffer or permit it to be upon the public streets or in any of the public places of the city unless such dog is accompanied by a person over the age of 12 years and is securely confined and controlled by an adequate leash not more than six feet long.

9-8.7   Property Damage. No person owning, keeping, or harboring a dog shall permit or suffer it to do any injury, or to do any damage to any lawn, shubbery, flowers, grounds or property.

9-8.8   Limitation of Number of Dogs. No person shall own, keep, or harbor more than three dogs in any residence or provided establishment within the city except for commercial purposes.

9-12   Maintenance and supervision. No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog shall cause, suffer, or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park, school ground, or any space where the public congregate or walk upon any public property or place whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of said property. This restriction in this section shall not apply to that portion of the street lying between the curb lines, which shall be used to curb such dog under the following condition;

9-12.1   Remove Feces Deposit. The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary method by the department of health.

9-12.2   Disposal Feces Deposit. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, or keeping or in charge of any dog curbed in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance in a sanitary method approved by the Department of Health.

:: Would Your Cat Want To Be Licensed? 

Sure he would, if he knew it could mean the difference between life and death. Licensed cats are more likely to be reunited with their owners if they stray and become lost. Licensed cats are more likely to receive emergency veterinary treatment if they're injured and you're not home to authorize treatment. Licensed cats are more likely to be vaccinated against rabies, protecting themselves and humans from contracting this deadly virus. And licensed cats are more likely to contribute to the solution to cat overpopulation, not the problem itself.

Cat licensing is a registration and identification system proven to protect cats and protect people. That's why it is often described as a "security system" or "insurance policy" for cats and their caretakers. That's why The Human Society of the United States and many other organizations and individuals support cat licensing. That's why other communities across the country license cats.

To learn more, please contact us:

New Brunswick Health Department
City Hall
78 Bayard Street/P.O. Box 269
732-745-5016

:: New Brunswick Cat Ordinance 

9-13   Legislative Findings. The city council finds and determines:

1. It is an objective of this chapter to protect the public and animals from the spread of rabies to animals and humans since rabies is transmissible to humans and is fatal in all cases; and
2. It is an objective of this chapter to protect the public from animal related nuisances and threat to public health, safety, and welfare; and
3. It has been determined that these objectives can be fostered by assuring that animal owners meet responsibilities for the control of any care of their cats.

9-14   Cat Regulations.

1. Limitation of Number of Cats. No person shall own, keep or harbor more than three cats in any residence or provided establishment within the city.
2. Feeding of Stray Cats. Any person who feeds stray cats must follow the regulations by the city in reference to licensing and vaccination.
3. Property Damage. No person owning, keeping or harboring a cat shall permit or suffer it to do any injury, or to do any damage to any lawn, shrubbery, flowers, grounds or property.

9-14.2   Provisions Relating to Rabies Vaccination of Cats.

1. Vaccination and License Requirements. No person shall own, keep, harbor, or maintain any cat over seven months of age within the City of New Brunswick, unless such cat is vaccinated and licensed.
2. Vaccination. All cats shall be vaccinated against rabies by a licensed veterinarian in accordance with the latest "Compendium of Animal Rabies Vaccines and Recommendations for Immunization."

9-14.3   Licensing Requirements.

1. Cats Must Have License Number Displayed. Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a cat of licensing age shall annually apply for and procure from the Health Department a license and official registration tag with license number for each cat so owned, kept or harbored, and shall place upon such cat a collar, or other device with the license number securely fastened or displayed thereof. Acceptable methods of displaying license number shall include, but are not limited to, break-away or elastic collars. License tags are not transferable.

9-14.4   Cat Bites.

Where it has been determined by a physician that a person has been bitten by a cat, such individual, or his parent or guardian if he is a minor, shall immediately notify the police. The police will then notify the Animal Control Officer. When the owner or keeper of the any cat shall be notified by the police that the cat has bitten any individuals, the owner or keeper of the cat must comply with the following procedures:

• Have the cat kept in quarantine in the owner's residence or at a kennel for a period of ten days following the bite.
• At the end of the ten days have the cat re-examined by a veterinarian or authorized agent of the board of health and a written report of the cat's state of health sent to the board of health.