West New York, NJ Animal Ordinances: Pet Store Rules (2026)

Article XVII of Chapter 322 (Sanitation) in the West New York Town Code, Sale of Animals and Poultry, was added 10-7-1981 by Ord. No. 1499 and amended 12-29-1982 by Ord. No. 1583. It contains a single section, § 322-106. The section binds any person, firm, corporation, retail, wholesale or commercial business or entity located within the Town of West New York. The four verbs it prohibits are sell, offer to sell, donate and lease, and the object is any live or freshly slaughtered animal, sheep, goat or lamb, transferred to any other person, firm or entity.

A second sentence adds that all poultry, pigeon or fowl must be slaughtered, dressed and cleaned prior to sale, donation or lease. The article prints no definition of animal, no exception for licensed sellers and no adoption or rescue carve-out, and its text does not use the words dog, cat, pet store or breeder. That separates it from a purpose-built pet store ordinance. Other parts of the Code deal with dogs directly. Chapter 174 licenses dogs and defines a kennel as any lot, building, structure, enclosure or premises where four or more dogs are kept or maintained for any purpose other than veterinary care, and § 174-4 requires a kennel license at a fee set in Chapter 186, Article II.

Section 322-123 requires a permit, renewable annually and registered, to keep cattle, sheep, goats, dogs, swine or any other animals on any premises in the Town, and Article XV bars fowl in house and tenement yards. The reach of § 322-106 is set by its own words: a sale, offer, donation or lease of a live animal by a business in the Town of West New York falls inside it.