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Jersey City proposes higher health and animal-control fees, new rules for coops, kennels and reclaim charges
Summary
City health officials presented ordinances updating multiple health-related chapters of the municipal code, raising many license fees (generally about 40%), moving some animal-control authority back to animal control, and changing chicken coop and kennel license rates and escalating reclaim fees.
Health department officials asked the Municipal Council to approve a set of ordinances that change licensing and fee schedules across public-health and animal-control codes, including new charges for chicken coops and kennel operations and escalating reclaim fees for animals returned multiple times.
Paul Bellenboyers, the health officer, and Mark Burns of the Division of Animal Care and Control presented revisions to multiple chapters of the municipal code that consolidate authority and bring animal-control…
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