Bergenfield requires dogs in public or on unfenced private property to be controlled by a person over 12 with a leash no longer than six feet.
Bergenfield Code prohibits any person owning, harboring, or in charge of a dog from allowing it on public streets, public places, or any unfenced portion of private property unless the dog is accompanied by a person over the age of 12 and is securely confined and controlled by an adequate leash not more than six feet long. Dogs may not run at large in any public street, park, building, or on private property without the owner's consent. The borough's official dog park is the only area where dogs may legally be off-leash, and even there dogs must be leashed when outside the dog park's interior fenced perimeter.
Walking a dog off-leash, using a leash longer than six feet, or letting a child under 13 walk the dog alone in Bergenfield public areas.
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