Irvington, NJ Animal Ordinances: Veterinary Clinic Zoning (2026)

This ban dates to the Township's original 1981 code, adopted January 13, 1981, under Ordinance No. MC 2622, as Chapter 65, Part 1, Article III, and it has not been amended since, unlike most of the surrounding animal-control articles the Township rewrote in 2020. Section 167-21 imposes a companion registration duty on anyone operating a lawful animal-treatment establishment: the operator must notify the Health Officer in writing of the establishment's name and location, disclose whether the operator is a New Jersey-licensed veterinarian, file a photostat of that license, and describe the premises where animals will be received, treated and cared for.

Section 167-22 then requires any establishment holding an animal under rabies observation to keep a record and forward it to the Health Officer, and to confine the animal so it cannot escape. Section 167-23 requires a record whenever an animal is kept overnight for more than 12 hours, including the animal's case history and the reason it was held that long. Together the four sections in Article III treat animal-treatment facilities as a public-health-regulated use as much as a zoning one: the residential-zone ban keeps the use out of housing areas, while the Health Officer filing and record-keeping duties apply to whatever facility operates lawfully elsewhere in the Township.