New Jersey state law prohibits breed-specific dog ordinances. No municipality in Middlesex County may ban or specially regulate pit bulls or any other breed; dogs are instead regulated by behavior under the state's vicious and potentially dangerous dog law.
Breed-specific legislation is barred statewide. N.J.S.A. 4:19-36 provides that the state's vicious and potentially dangerous dog act supersedes any municipal, county or local board of health ordinance concerning a specific breed of dog. As a result, no Middlesex County town can lawfully enact a pit bull ban or breed-based restriction. Instead, individual dogs are declared vicious or potentially dangerous based on their conduct through a municipal court process under N.J.S.A. 4:19-17 et seq., which can impose confinement, muzzling, insurance and registration requirements on the specific animal regardless of breed.
None for breed alone; breed-based local ordinances are unenforceable. Behavior-based penalties apply only after a court declares a specific dog vicious or potentially dangerous.
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