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Resident complaints prompt Oxford to review kennel licensing after reports of households with more than six dogs
Summary
Clerk Lee Geller reported Feb. 18 that residents reported households keeping more than six dogs; the township ordinance requires a kennel license and the Board of Health may not inspect these properties. The Township Attorney will investigate and the matter will return to a future meeting.
Clerk Lee Geller told the Committee that she had received calls from residents reporting at least one household with more than six dogs and that another family may be in a similar situation. She said township ordinance requires a kennel license for such circumstances and that the Board of Health may not have authority to inspect the properties in question.
"I did reach out to a few clerk friends and only one got back with an application and stated that the board of health will not look at the properties in questions since it is not in their scope of work," Lee Geller said, according to the meeting record. Mayor Gerald Norton and the Committee discussed the issue with the township attorney, who will investigate and report back at the next meeting.
The Committee carried the veteran's request to the next meeting and directed Clerk Geller to contact the resident who raised the kennel concern and provide an update at the next meeting. No formal action or vote was recorded on the kennel matter at this meeting.
