DOG LICENSING

2025 Dog License Application

Information Regarding Dog Licenses

The owners of all dogs seven months of age or older are required to annually apply to the licensing clerk of the municipality in which he or she resides for a dog license. In order for the license to be issued, the owner must present proof that a licensed veterinarian has vaccinated the dog against rabies and that the duration of immunity from that vaccination extends through at least ten months of the twelve-month licensing period. An exemption to the rabies inoculation requirement shall be granted if the owner presents written certification from a licensed veterinarian that the dog cannot be vaccinated due to a medical condition or course of therapy.

§ 125-3Initial registration; renewal.

Such license and registration tag shall be applied for and procured annually during the month of January except as follows:

The owner of any newly acquired dog of licensing age or of any dog which attains licensing age shall make application for license and registration tag for such dog within 10 days after such acquisition or age attainment.

The owner of any dog licensed in another state for the current year, and bearing a registration tag, shall make application for license and registration tag for such dog within 90 days of the time the dog is brought into New Jersey.

§ 125-4Fees; exemption from fees.

[Amended by Ord. No. 21-1989; Ord. No. 20-2000; Ord. No. 2002-08]

The sum to be paid for a dog license and registration tag shall be:

[Amended 4-18-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-7]

(1)

Altered dogs. The license fee for a one-year term, commencing January 1 through December 31, and each renewal thereof, is set forth in Chapter 205, Article II, Fee Schedule.

(2)

Unaltered dogs. The license fee for a one-year term for a nonneutered, or nonspayed, dog, commencing January 1 through December 31, and each renewal thereof, is set forth in Chapter 205, Article II, Fee Schedule.

Such sum shall include both the Township's licensing fee and the state's registration fee.

Dogs used as guides for blind persons and commonly known as "Seeing Eye dogs," dogs used to assist handicapped persons and commonly known as "service dogs" and dogs used to assist deaf persons and commonly known as "hearing ear" dogs shall be licensed in the same manner as other dogs, except that the owner or keeper shall not be required to pay any fee.

[Amended 4-18-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-7]

Rabies Clinics

Lebanon Township Free Rabies Clinic, November 1, 2025, 9:00am - 12:00pm at the Department of Public Works, 339 Newport Road.

All Rabies Clinics are listed on the Hunterdon County Health Department website. If you have any questions regarding your dog's rabies expiration date, please call Kim at (908) 638-8523 x102.