Woodbridge, NJ Animal Ordinances: Exotic Pets (2026)
Key Facts
- Permits needed
- state Fish & Wildlife + Township
- Township permit fee
- $75/year, per § 11-8.1
- Poisonous animals
- banned outright, no permit
- Grace period
- 90 days for out-of-state license
- Public contact rule
- unsolicited contact barred
Summary
Keeping an exotic animal in Woodbridge requires two permits, one from the State Division of Fish and Wildlife and one from the Department of Health and Human Services, and the animal can never run loose or contact the public without consent. Bringing any poisonous animal into a public place is banned outright under § 11-8.5, with no permit available at all.
No person shall have or keep on any premises in the Township exotic animals without having obtained a permit from the State Department of Fish and Wildlife. In addition thereto, a permit must be obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with Subsection 11-8.1. [...] At no time and under no circumstances can any person bring or cause to be brought into any public place within the Township any poisonous animal of any kind.
Full Breakdown
1 process that governs livestock and fowl permits, inspections and the $75 annual fee. 1. e bars letting it make any unsolicited physical contact, or threaten contact, with another person. 2. 5 goes further for a narrower category, imposing an absolute ban with no permit exception on bringing any poisonous animal of any kind into any public place in the Township, unlike the exotic-animal permit scheme. h if handled lawfully and without creating the contact risk or nuisance the section otherwise forbids.
Violations & Fines
Keeping an exotic animal without both the state Fish and Wildlife permit and the Township Health Department permit, or bringing a poisonous animal into any public place at all, is punishable under § 11-8.7 with the Chapter 1, § 1-5 penalty, and each day the violation continues is a separate offense. The Department can also remove an animal creating a nuisance after the twenty-day cure period in § 11-8.2.
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