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ORDINANCE 11-2006 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MENDHAM AMENDING CHAPTER III, POLICE REGULATIONS, OF THE MENDHAM TOWNSHIP ORDINANCE CODE, TO PROHIBIT THE FEEDING OF UNCONFINED WILDLIFE IN ANY PUBLIC PARK OR TOWNSHIP OWNED OR OPERATED PROPERTY BE IT ORDAINED BY THE TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MENDHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF MORRIS, NEW JERSEY, as follows: Section 1. Chapter III, Police Regulations, is hereby by the addition of a new Paragrahp 3-11 FEEDING OF WILDLIFE to read in its entirety as follows: 3-11.1 Definitions. As used in this section shall include the following: Feed shall mean to give, place, expose, deposit, distribute or scatter any edible material with the intention of feeding, attracting or enticing wildlife. Feeding does not include baiting in the legal taking of fish and/or game. Person shall mean any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal jurisdiction. Wildlife shall mean all animals that are neither human nor domesticated.
3-11.2 Purpose. The purpose of this section is to prohibit the feeding of unconfined wildlife in any public park or on any other
property owned or operated by the 3-11.3 Prohibited conduct. No person shall feed, in any public park or on any other property owned or operated by the Township of Mendham, any wildlife, excluding confined wildlife (for example: wildlife confined in zoos, parks or rehabilitation centers, or unconfined wildlife at environmental education centers, or feral cats as part of an approved Trap-Neuter-Release program). 3-11.4 Penalties. Penalties shall be subject to a fine in the maximum amount permitted by law. Adopted: March 28, 2006 Attest:
_____________________________ By_____________________________ Penny Newell, Township Clerk Richard H. Krieg, Mayor |
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