Fair Lawn Borough prohibits keeping livestock and most poultry within residential zones, treating chickens, roosters, goats, pigs, and similar farm animals as nuisances under the local animals chapter of the borough code.
Under Fair Lawn's animal control ordinance, residents are barred from harboring farm animals such as chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, goats, sheep, swine, horses, or cattle on residential properties. The borough's zoning and nuisance provisions reinforce this restriction, and enforcement is handled by the Fair Lawn Health Department and animal control officers. Variances are not generally granted for backyard chickens, and complaints typically result in abatement orders requiring removal of animals.
Violations may result in summonses with fines, abatement orders to remove animals, and daily penalties for continued non-compliance with health and zoning codes.
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