Dog licenses can be purchased at:

Town of Glenville Clerk’s Office
18 Glenridge Road
Glenville, N.Y. 12302
384-0036

Proof of current rabies vaccination is required for all dog licenses.

A certificate of proof is required if the dog is spayed or neutered.

FEES

Spayed and neutered dogs: $12.50 (includes $10.00 local fee)
Unspayed and unneutered dogs: $20.50 (includes $10.00 local fee)
Dogs owned by person’s over 65 years of age are exempt from the $10.00 local fee.
Registered purebred dogs: if no more than 10 (ten) $25.00
Registered purebred dogs: if no more than 25 (twenty five) $50.00
Registered purebred dogs: if more than 25 (twenty five) $100.00
Guide dogs, war dogs, hearing dogs, detection dogs, therapy dogs, and service dogs are exempt from fees.
Licenses are required to be renewed yearly.

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Section 119-1

a) Any owner to fail to license any dog as required by this article;

b) Any owner to fail to have any dog identified as required by this article;

c) Any person to knowingly affix to any dog any false or improper identification tag, special identification tag for identifying guide, service, hearing dogs or purebred license tag;

d) Any owner of any dangerous dog to fail to confine or destroy such dog upon order of any judge or justice as provided in section one hundred twenty-one of this article;

e) Any owner to fail to securely confine any dog as required by an order issued pursuant to section one hundred twenty-two or one hundred twenty-three of this article;

f) Any owner or custodian of any dog to fail to confine, restrain or present such dog for any lawful purpose pursuant to this article;

g) Any person to furnish any false or misleading information on any form required to be filed with any municipality or the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this article or rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

Violations are prosecuted pursuant to the penal law and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), except that where the person was found to have violated this section or former article seven of this chapter within the preceding five years the fine may not be more that fifty dollars ($50.00). Where the person was found to have committed two or more such violations within the preceding five years, it shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment for not more than fifteen days, or both.

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Section 104-1 Certain acts prohibited:

It shall be unlawful for any owner of or any person harboring any dog within the boundaries of the Village of Scotia to permit or allow such dog to:

a) Run at large while off the premises of its owner or person harboring such dog unless said dog is restrained by an adequate leash, a maximum length of 8 (eight) feet, or accompanied by its owner or a responsible person able to control such dog, except when such dog is on property with the express consent of the person owning, leasing or otherwise responsible for such property. For the purposes of this ordinance, a dog or dogs hunting in company with a hunter or hunters shall be considered as accompanied by its owner.

b) Engage in habitual loud howling or barking or to conduct itself in such manner as to habitually annoy any person other than the owner or person harboring such dog.

c) Cause damage or destruction to property or commit a nuisance upon the premises of a person other than the owner or person harboring such dog.

d) Chase or otherwise harass any persons peaceably conducting themselves in such a manner as reasonably to cause intimidation or to put such person in reasonable apprehension of bodily harm or injury.

e) Habitually chase or bark at motor vehicles not on the premises of the owner or person harboring such dog.

Section 104-2 Female dogs in heat:

It shall be unlawful for the owner or person harboring any female dog to permit such dog to run at large when in heat and such dog shall be confined to the premises of such person during such period.

Section 104-7. Collins Park:

All dogs and pets must be confined to the immediate area of the owner and restrained by a leash or similar restraint, in such a manner as to not disturb or endanger other park users.

Section 104-7.1 Removal of feces:

No person owning, harboring or having possession or control of a dog shall cause or allow such dog to deposit feces on any public or private property, except on property with the permission of the property owner, without immediately removing all feces deposited by such dog and disposing of it in a sanitary manner. This provision shall not be applicable to a blind person while such person is using a "seeing eye" dog licensed as such pursuant to section 109 of the Agriculture and Markets Law.

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Section 104-5

Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more that two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen (15) days, or both.

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The Town of Glenville provides the Village of Scotia with shelter services. There is a current contract with the Montgomery County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (S.P.C.A.) to house stray dogs that are seized in the Village of Scotia.

The shelter is located 7 miles west of Rt.103 (lock-9 bridge) on Rt. 5S in Amsterdam. Phone 842-8050 for information about its hours of operation, redemption and adoption procedures.

Any person with any question concerning dog control should direct their questions to Dog Control Officer Richard T. Trzeciak at the Town of Glenville by calling 384-0137 who will respond to all inquiries.

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