New Brunswick, NJ Animal Ordinances: Breed Restrictions (2026)

Section 6.04.190 is a single sentence: the city adopts, in its entirety and as amended or supplemented from time to time, the portion of the New Jersey Statutes at N.J.S. 4:19-17 et seq. on vicious or potentially dangerous dogs, as if fully set out in the chapter. The city code does not restate that statute, so the state text is what a dog owner in the City of New Brunswick is measured against. Nothing in Chapter 6.04 names a prohibited breed or ties any rule to a dog's breed. The word breed appears only in the license application under Section 6.04.030, which asks for a general description of the dog including breed, sex, age, color and markings.

The local provisions sit around that adoption. The fee schedule in Section 6.04.060 lists a license fee for a dangerous dog of $425.00, against a dog license fee of $14.00, and also lists a $3.00 surcharge for a non-sterilized dog, a $50.00 redemption fee and a quarantine fee of $25.00 per day. Section 6.04.330 requires a person bitten, once a physician has determined a dog bite, to notify the police immediately, and the police notify the animal control officer. The owner must then keep the dog in quarantine in the owner's residence or at a kennel for ten days and have a veterinarian or authorized agent of the board of health re-examine it, with a written report sent to the board of health. Section 6.04.200 lets the dog warden impound unlicensed dogs at large, dogs off the owner's premises without a current registration tag, strays, and female dogs in season that are strays or at large. Section 6.04.220 requires written notice that a seized dog is liable to be disposed of or destroyed if not claimed within seven days, and Section 6.04.230 charges fees totaling $500.00 when an unclaimed dog is disposed of.