The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-01
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senbIyof d. state u Nelr jersey, That In case
any c1neagl0w or Infectious disease shall appear
OK be suspected to exist tn any locality 10 this
satei itshaA be the duty OF al1 persons owning OR
having any interest N anirnah inlscted or sup
pogsd to be infected, and Of any person having
knowledge OF suspicion thereof, at once TO notify
the state board Of health, some officer or mem
Der Of said board Of the facts, aud u shall ne the
duty of the said board, upon receiving stien in
formation, OR any information in regaru thereto
10 investigate the same OF cause the same to De
investigated, and II ans such disease is found TO
exist, or likely to break out, TO quarantine such
animal or animals. and to take sreh precaution-
airy measures with relation to other animals cx-
posed to such disease as shall be deemed neces-
sary, and TO enforce sIfch regulations in relation
TO such diseases as the said board may adopt.
2. And be it enacted, That whenever IN the
Judgment Of the said beard, its agents or up.
pointees, it shall appear that such disease is not
likely to yield TO remedial treatment, or that the
expense of such treatment viii be greater than
the value of the animal or animais infected and
when in any case such disease is likely, in the
Judgment of said board its agentsor appointees,
to be communicated to other animals, they shall
cause the animals infected TO be Immediately
slaughtered. their remains buried at least four
feet beneath the surface of the ground and all
places in which the same have been kept to be
thoroughly eleansed and disinfected.
3. And be 1t enacted, That when any animal OF
animals shall be slaughtered as directed in the
preceding section. the value of the same may, at
the request of said board any person interested
be ascerained and appraised BY three diSnter-
ested freehoders resident in this state, who shall
make and sign certificate thereof, in the pres
enee of witness who shall attest the same such
appraisement shall be made on the basis of the
market value of the animal or animals slstigh-
tered, just prior to the time when they became so
diseased, and shall be limited to the sum of one
hundred dollars for registered animals and to
forty dollars for all other; one-haH of the valua-
ton so ascertained shall be paid by the state on
the presentation of such certificate with the APP
prevail of the sad board Endorsed thereon, to the
owner or owners.
a. And be it enacted. That when any herd or
contagious or infectious disease, and the state
board of health deem the disease likely to spread
to that portion of the herd still unaffected,
although isolated or quarantined, said herd may,
with the consent Of the owner or owners, and
with the restrictions agreed upon between them
and the executive officer of the state board of
health, cause allow said herd or herds TO be in
oculated for the prevention Of such diseases as
can be thus mtigated but any loss resulting from
such inoculstions shall not constitute any claim
against the state, or the board of health pro-
vided, that incubation for pieuro-pneumonia
shall in no case be allowed without the consent
and approval of the state board Of health, and
shall be made under Its direction.
5. And be it enacted, That when any city, town.
ship or district shall be threatened with any con-
tagious or infectious disease among animals, to
such an extent as 10 seem to require more general
precautions the state board of health shall notify
the local board OF health, and, with the advice
and consent of the local board Of health, may for
such city, township or district without inspection
and written permission, aud may prohibit the
running at large Of aninals in any township, II
the township board of health shall advise; and
the state board of health may call upon local
boards of health to discover and report cases Of
contagious disease and aid in measures for its
abatement and prevention
6. And be itenacted. That any person or persons
refusing or neglecting to notify said board of
health, or any of them, Of the existence OF pleuro
pneumonia nnderpe4, or any other contagious
or infectious disease among animals, shall be
deemed and adjudged guilty of a Inisdemeanor,
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of not more than two hundred dollars, or by i'm
prisonment not exceeding one year, or both. at
the discretion of the court; and that If any per
son or persons shall knowingly buy or sell or
cause to be bought or sold any animal or animals
affected with the pleuro-pneumonia, rinderpest,
or any other contagious or infectious diseases, or
that has been exposed TO contagious or infectious
disease, OF Is part of aay herd or stock held in
quarantine, all such person or persons shall be
deemed and adjudged guilty OF q misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by
fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. or inn
prisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at
the discretion OF the court
z. And be it enacted, That when any animal or
herd of animals is held in quarantine under au-
thory given by the laws of this state to the state
board Of health, it shall not be lawful for the
owner or keeper thereof to add any animals to
snch herd, by purchase or otherwise, without the
written consent OF said board. under penalty of
being aCijudged guilty Of nisdeneanor and fined
therefor to an amount not exceeding one hundred
dollars
s And be 1t enacted. That when. by reason of
the locality of an infected animal or herd within
city, or by reason Of frozen ground or extreme
heat. il Is i'll the Judgment of the stats board Of
health, or those acting under ts authority, mex
pedent or impossible to bury any such dead or
slaughtered animals on the premises, the board
may authorize any veterinarian acting for said
board TO slash the skin and cut the flesh of the
same, and. either under mis- direct oversight or
that Of city board Of heakh. or contractor for the
disposal of dead carcassss, TO give over the same
to the use of bonc-boiling glue other estab-
hshment for the disposal of dead animals. but in
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posed of for food, and any such disposal OF the
same shall mako the party or parties concerned
guilty of a miSdemeAnOT and punishable by q fine
not To exceed one hundred dollars or imprson-
meat in the county jail FOR period not exceeding
six months.
o. And he il enacted That II, between the first
day Of October and the first day of May of any
yea, a veterinarian who has been regularly grada-
ated in veterinary medicine, desires to make u
post mortem examination OF any animal he has
attended or At the request OF the owner of any
animal that has died within the city lialits, he
may do So, II such examination Is made within
twenty houIs of the death or slaughter OF said
Aniuasl in every such case he shall notify the'cty
scsyenger, or remover of c6reasses OF animals OF
the hour of his examination, and said scaveRger
shall arrange to remove the carcass in not naore
than three haurs afser tho beginning of said exam
tnati0n.
of the state board OF health to keep fall and
complete record of all the proceedings under this
act aHd report Tho same annually to the state
board Of agriculture, and such report shall be
printed In and form part OF the annual report
Of said board OF agriculture.
IL And be it enacted, That the sum OF two
thousand dollars is hereby annually appropriated
to the state board of health TO defay the expenses
of the said beard in the duties imposed by this
act end that the goTeflQr. secretary of state and
the comptrsiler be and they ere hereby sHthor-
lied TO determine what sum szhn9 ally shall be
allowed to said board OF aqy member thereof for
reryices in the overnight hand execution OF the
duses hereby imgoeed. 5at The aaaoua alleged
shall not exceed thesrsn efxife hundred dollars
in 0IlE one year,