Woodbridge, NJ Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- License required
- cats over 7 months, annual
- License fee
- $13 altered / $23 unaltered
- Household cap
- 5 cat licenses
- Renewal date
- expires September 30 annually
- Feral feeding rule
- outdoor cat must be spayed/neutered
- Late fee
- $3 after November 1
Summary
Every cat over seven months in Woodbridge must be vaccinated against rabies and licensed annually with the Department of Health and Human Services, capped at five licenses per household, and anyone feeding a stray cat outdoors must first have it spayed or neutered. License fees run $13 for altered cats and $23 for unaltered ones, with a $3 late fee after November 1.
No person shall own, keep, harbor or maintain any cat over seven (7) months of age within the Township unless the cat is vaccinated and licensed. The provisions of this section do not apply to cats held in a cattery, or those held by a State or Federal licensed research facility or a veterinary establishment where cats are received or kept for diagnostic, medical, surgical, or other treatments or licensed animal shelters, pounds, kennels or pet shops.
Full Breakdown
2 requires every cat kept in the Township past seven months of age to carry both a current rabies vaccination and an annual license; the section exempts catteries, state- or federally licensed research and veterinary facilities, and licensed shelters, pounds and kennels. 3, an owner has ten days from acquiring a cat of licensing age (or from the cat reaching that age) to apply for a license, and the same ten-day clock applies to unlicensed cats brought into town; a cat already licensed by another state gets a ninety-day grace period.
d caps any single household at five cat licenses. 7 and updated by Ordinance No. 2022-56, are $13 for a spayed or neutered cat ($6 for residents sixty-five or older) and $23 for an unaltered cat ($16 for seniors), plus a $3 delinquent fee charged after November 1. 9. 1 folds cats into the Township's at-large ban, so a cat may not run loose regardless of licensing status. c is direct: outdoor feeding is tied to sterilization, not banned outright. 10.
Violations & Fines
Violating the licensing chapter carries a penalty under § 11-4.12 of not less than $100 up to the ceiling set in Chapter 1, § 1-5, recovered in the name of the Board of Health or the Township. Running a cat at large or failing to sterilize an outdoor-fed cat is enforced separately under Chapter 11's general penalty at § 11-5.12, with each day of a continuing violation treated as its own offense.
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