Monroe Township (Gloucester County), NJ Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)

Section 74-15 of the Monroe Township Code, for Monroe Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, is the fee schedule for cat and dog licenses and cites Chapter 280, the Township's animal chapter, as its parent. Chapter 280 is not in the exported code text, so this page reports what the schedule prints: the price of the cat license and the charges that travel with it.

An annual cat license expires on December 31 of each year. The fee turns on one fact, whether the cat is spayed or neutered. A spayed or neutered cat is licensed for $5. A cat that is not spayed or neutered is licensed for $8. Subsection A(3) states that fees are not prorated, so the price is the same whether the license is bought at the start of the year or near its end.

Subsection C adds a late fee of $5 for licenses obtained after March 31 of each year. Subsection D sets tag replacement at $0.50. Subsection E sets a $175 fee for an application for a variance on the number of dogs and cats permitted, so a household that wants to keep a different number of animals than the rule allows pays that application fee.

The same section prices dog licenses higher in both categories: $10 for a spayed or neutered dog and $13 for a dog that is not. A dog declared potentially dangerous by a court under N.J.S.A. 4:19-30 carries a $700 initial license fee and a $700 annual fee, and no matching charge is printed for cats.

The section was amended 10-9-2017 by Ord. No. O:32-2017 and 11-26-2018 by Ord. No. O:35-2018, and the license subsections were amended 4-28-2021 by Ord. No. O:06-2021. The section does not address cats running at large or feral colonies, and no provision on either topic appears in the portion of the Township Code this page was written from.