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.

Dog License Fees 

A)        The Town of Glenville has established the fee for a dog license at $12.50 for a spayed/neutered dog and $17.50 for an unsprayed/unneutered dog.  Applicants for a dog license who are 65 or older shall pay a reduced fee of $5.00 for a spayed/neutered dog and $7.50 for an unsprayed/unneutered dog.  The Town of Glenville will not provide special purebred or kennel license fees. 

B)        The aforesaid fees will not be charged for applications submitted for a license for any guide, hearing, service, war, working search, detection, police and therapy dogs as defined in Section 108 of the New York State Agriculture and Markets Law. 

C)        Animal Population Control Surcharge:  Each applicant for a dog license, including those exempt from license fees under the provisions of paragraph B shall pay a surcharge of $1.00 if the dog to be licensed is spayed/neutered or a surcharge of $3.00 if the dog to be licensed is not spayed/neutered. 

D)        A replacement dog license tag may be obtained from the Town of Glenville Clerk upon payment of a $3.00 fee. 

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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 loud barking, howling or whining either for 10 minutes continuously or for 15 minutes in any one hour interval.

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 currently a contract with the Animal Protective Foundation to house stray dogs seized in the Village of Scotia.

Animal Protective Foundation
53 Maple Ave.
Glenville, N.Y. 12302
374-3944

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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