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NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-12 - Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals

4:5-12. Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals  If, between October first and May first of any year, a veterinarian who has been regularly graduated in veterinary medicine, desires to make a post-mortem examination of an animal he has attended or at the request of the owner of an animal that has died within the city limits, he may do so, if the examination is made within twenty hours of the death or slaughter of the animal. In every such case he shall notify the city scavenger, or remover of carcasses of animals, of the hour of the examination, and the scavenger shall arrange to remove the carcass in not more than three hours after the beginning of the examination.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-13 - Authority of department

4:5-13. Authority of department  When a county, city, township or district is threatened with a contagious or infectious disease among animals, or poultry, to such an extent as to seem to require more general precautions, the department of agriculture may for such time as it shall deem necessary and proper, quarantine such county, city, township or district and prohibit the bringing of any animal or poultry, subject to such contagious or infectious disease, into such county, city, township or district, or the removal of any such animal, or poultry, out of or from one place to another within the county, city, township or district without inspection and a written permit signed by the department or its duly constituted agent or representative.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-14 - Posting and publication of notice

4:5-14. Posting and publication of notice  The department shall cause public notice of the quarantine and prohibition to be posted in five or more conspicuous places within the county, city, township or district and published in one or more newspapers circulating therein.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-15 - Co-operation with federal bureau

4:5-15. Co-operation with federal bureau  The department may co-operate with the bureau of animal industry of the United States in any measures deemed necessary to eradicate or prevent the spread of any such contagious or infectious disease.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-16 - Transportation of animals within, into or from quarantined area

4:5-16. Transportation of animals within, into or from quarantined area  When a county, city, township, district, animal, herd of animals or poultry is quarantined pursuant to this article and public notice thereof is given as provided in section 4:5-14 of this title, no owner, keeper or other person shall drive or transport, or permit to be driven or transported, into, out of, or from one place to another within such county, city, township, district or place of quarantine, any animal of the kind named in the quarantine, or visit any animal, herd of animals or poultry so quarantined without a written permit signed by the department or its constituted agent or representative.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-17 - Penalty

4:5-17. Penalty  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 4:5-16 of this title shall for a first offense be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars, and shall for each subsequent offense be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. The penalty shall be sued for and recovered and the imprisonment imposed in an action to be brought by and in the name of the secretary of agriculture in the manner provided in article 2 of chapter 23 of this title (s. 4:23-11 et seq.).
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-18 - Terms defined

4:5-18. Terms defined  As used in this article: "Auction market" is an establishment regularly engaged in the sale by auction of live stock for dairy, breeding or slaughtering purposes. "Department" means the Department of Agriculture. "General quarantine" includes all quarantines not included under the term "special quarantine" as herein defined. "Official test" includes all tuberculin tests made under the supervision of or authorization from the department. "Owner" includes a person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation owning or leasing cattle from another. "Premises" includes a part or portion of land or a structure erected on land and a vehicle or vessel used in the transportation of passengers, goods or cattle. "Private test" includes all tuberculin tests other than official tests and shall be made at the owner's expense. "Public stockyard" includes all stockyards where trading in live stock is carried on, where yarding, feeding and watering facilities are provided by the stockyard, transportation or similar company and where Federal or State inspection is maintained for the inspection of live stock for communicable diseases. "Quarantine" means to hold in segregation because of the presence or suspected presence of a contagious or infectious disease and shall be construed as either special quarantine or general quarantine as applicable to existing conditions. "Reactor" applies to cattle reacting to a tuberculin test or tests, either official or private, conducted to determine the existence of tuberculosis. "Special quarantine" means a quarantine of a single animal, building, structure, pen, car, vessel, vehicle, field or inclosure or a quarantine of any number of animals when confined or contained in the same building, structure, pen, car, vessel, vehicle, field or inclosure. "Suspicious" applies to cattle tested to determine the presence of tuberculosis and not giving a reaction sufficient to justify condemnation. "Tuberculin test" includes any method of testing for the detection of tuberculosis by tuberculin or any other method of testing for detection of tuberculosis. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 872, s. 8.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-19 - Tests at instance of department of agriculture, health department or owner

4:5-19. Tests at instance of department of agriculture, health department or owner  Whenever the Department of Agriculture deems it advisable, or when the Department of Health or the owner of dairy or breeding animals shall request the Department of Agriculture to cause an inspection to be made of any animals which may be diseased with tuberculosis, the Department of Agriculture may designate a veterinarian to make the inspection and, if deemed advisable by the Department of Agriculture, to conduct a tuberculin test of the animals in accordance with the methods prescribed by it. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 873, s. 9.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-20 - Expense of inspection and tests

4:5-20. Expense of inspection and tests  If the owner of such animals shall agree to comply with and carry out the regulations of the Department of Agriculture relating to the removal from the herd and quarantine and disposal of condemned animals, the disinfection of the premises and the introduction into the herd of other animals, the expense of the inspection and tests shall be borne by the department. L.1946, c. 247, p. 873, s. 10.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-21 - Quarantine and slaughter of condemned animals

4:5-21. Quarantine and slaughter of condemned animals  All cattle reacting to an official or authorized private tuberculin test or declared tuberculous as the result of an authorized physical examination or other method of determining tuberculosis approved by the Department of Agriculture, shall not be again presented for a tuberculin test but shall be immediately segregated, quarantined and held at the owner's expense until the department issues a written order to move the cattle, which removal shall be done immediately at the owner's expense, to designated slaughtering centers. The cattle shall be slaughtered at the time and place specified in the written order under the supervision of an authorized veterinarian approved by the department who shall judge the carcass for evidence of tuberculosis and as to fitness for food and file a report on the same within five days. No person shall sell, offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of or purchase any cattle that have been classed as reactors, declared tuberculous or suspicious of being tuberculous either on official or private test, or shall remove any cattle from any herd that has been quarantined except on the written order issued by the department. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 873, s. 11.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-22 - Time and supervision of slaughter

4:5-22. Time and supervision of slaughter  No indemnity shall be paid for reacting animals unless slaughtered within thirty days of date of appraisal and in accordance with section 4:5-21. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 874, s. 12.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-23 - Agreements respecting valuation of condemned animals

4:5-23. Agreements respecting valuation of condemned animals  The veterinarian making an official tuberculin test, or any authorized agent of the department may make an agreement with the owner as to the valuation of the animal condemned, based on its market value for dairy, breeding or beef purposes immediately prior to the time of discovery of the infection or the owner of the animal condemned may agree that the value of the animal be determined by appraisement by the department as provided in section 4:5-24 or 4:5-25 of this Title. In the case of any purebred animal, the owner at the time of appraisal shall furnish the certificate of registration or he shall furnish evidence that he has made application for same. In no case shall indemnity be paid on a purebred basis until the certificate of registration has been received and approved by the department. The owner of any condemned animal not eligible for indemnity shall receive only the net proceeds of the sale of the meat, hide and other marketable parts of the animal; provided , the same shall have been inspected by an approved inspector, who must be a veterinarian, in the event of which agreement the owner shall have no further claim against the State. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 874, s. 13.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-24 - Appraisement prior to testing

4:5-24. Appraisement prior to testing  Immediately before commencing the test, if it is deemed advisable by the department, an appraisement may be made by the owner and an authorized agent or representative of the department of the market value of the animals as of the day of appraisement, and in case the animals so appraised react to such official tuberculin test the amount of the appraisement as agreed upon prior to tuberculin testing shall be official and shall be accepted by the owner and the department.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-25 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-25 - Appraisement where no agreement reached

4:5-25. Appraisement where no agreement reached  In all cases where no agreement can be reached, there shall be appointed three competent and disinterested freeholders, one by the department, one by the owner, and the third by the first two at the expense of the owner, who shall ascertain and decide upon the appraised value of each animal condemned, and shall sign a certificate of such value in the presence of a witness who shall attest the same, and such valuation shall in each case be made upon the market value of the animal for breeding, dairy or beef purposes on the day of appraisement.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-26 - Report of salvage or proceeds of slaughtered animal

4:5-26. Report of salvage or proceeds of slaughtered animal  The salvage is the net amount received from the sale of the animal or animals, and a report of such sale shall be made on blanks furnished for that purpose by the department, signed by the purchaser or his agent, and in no case shall the owner receive compensation from the state if the statement prove false. Delivery and slaughtering charges may be deducted, but any charges for holding the animal pending slaughter shall not be deducted and any such charges will not be paid by the state.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-27 - Indemnity receivable by owner of slaughtered animal

4:5-27. Indemnity receivable by owner of slaughtered animal  For each bovine animal so killed to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, the owner shall receive the net proceeds of the sale of the animal and in addition thereto shall, subject to the provisions of R.S. 4:5-10, be paid an indemnity based on the market value of the animal or animals to be slaughtered immediately prior to the time of the discovery of the infection, subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the board. Amended by L.1973, c. 47, s. 2, eff. March 2, 1973.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-28 - Indemnity, conditions

4:5-28. Indemnity, conditions  In order for animals imported into New Jersey to be eligible for appraisement and indemnity the following conditions must be satisfied: a. The animal shall at the time of entry be accompanied by a tuberculin test chart showing compliance with the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture regulations governing the interstate movement of cattle; except that cattle imported from specific areas designated by the Board of Agriculture as provided in section 4:5-54 of this Title need not comply with this paragraph. b. The animal shall at the time of entry be accompanied by a health chart approved by the chief regulatory official of the point of origin stating that the herd from which it came was fully accredited, or a negative herd in a modified accredited area and was not under quarantine for any infectious disease, tuberculosis included, and that all the animals in the herd in which the animal originated had on the last tuberculin test conducted under official supervision passed without evidence of reaction; except that cattle imported from specific areas designated by the Board of Agriculture as provided in section 4:5-54 of this Title need not comply with this paragraph. c. The owner of the animal shall furnish, upon request, proof that it has been owned and maintained within the State of New Jersey for a period of sixty days prior to the time of being declared tuberculous. d. The animal shall have passed an authorized tuberculin test after entry into New Jersey. Amended by L.1938, c. 265, p. 586, s. 1; L.1946, c. 247, p. 875, s. 14; L.1947, c. 207, p. 867, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-29 - Payment of indemnity

4:5-29. Payment of indemnity  Upon presentation of the appraisement certificate to the State Comptroller, with the approval of the department indorsed thereon, the owner shall be entitled to receive from the State treasury the sum due from the State of New Jersey fixed by this article. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 875, s. 15.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-30 - Priority of payment to certain owners

4:5-30. Priority of payment to certain owners  In compensating the owners of cattle condemned and slaughtered under this article, the department or such board, bureau or other agency as may be charged with such duty, shall give priority to owners with whom agreements for compensation were made before the date on which an appropriation for such purpose became available. An appropriation made for such purpose after April fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, shall be deemed to be made in accordance with this section.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-31 - Marking affected animals

4:5-31. Marking affected animals  Any bovine animal affected with advanced or generalized tuberculosis or with tuberculosis of the udder or which has reacted to the tuberculin test shall be plainly and permanently marked by any member or duly authorized agent or representative of the department, and such marking shall not be construed as cruelty to animals within the meaning of any law of this state.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-32 - Issuance of certificate for healthy cattle

4:5-32. Issuance of certificate for healthy cattle  Whenever the department has made or caused to be made an examination of cattle within this state, and shall have ascertained them to be sound and in good health, the department shall, upon request of the owner, give to him a certificate in writing, signed by the secretary of agriculture, certifying to the fact of the examination and of the good health and condition of the animal or herd.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-33 - Co-operation with federal bureau

4:5-33. Co-operation with federal bureau  The department may co-operate with the bureau of animal industry of the United States in any general national system which may be adopted by such bureau for the prevention of the spread of bovine tuberculosis and any other contagious or infectious disease, and its eradication in the United States and its territories.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-34 - Obtaining information as to owners and cattle in given area

4:5-34. Obtaining information as to owners and cattle in given area  The department may obtain information regarding the number of cattle owners and the number of cattle in a county, township, municipality or other designated area in order to carry out a plan for the tuberculin testing of cattle for the control and eradication of tuberculosis in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture. A record of the information obtained shall be filed in the office of the Department of Agriculture. Expenses incurred in procuring this information shall be paid for from funds appropriated to the department. Amended by L.1946, c. 247, p. 876, s. 16.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-35 - Co-operation by department with local organizations

4:5-35. Co-operation by department with local organizations  The department may co-operate with an organization or organizations or recommend the formation of a new organization in a county, township, municipality or other designated area and delegate to such organization or organizations any duties it may deem advisable for the purpose of promoting and carrying out the work in connection with the tuberculin testing of cattle for the control and eradication of tuberculosis.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-36 - Appropriations by municipalities and counties

4:5-36. Appropriations by municipalities and counties  The county boards of freeholders in their respective counties and the governing bodies of townships, municipalities or other designated areas may make such appropriations from the general funds of their county, township, municipality or other designated area as will enable them to co-operate effectively with the cattle owners, the state department of agriculture and the United States department of agriculture in the control and eradication of tuberculosis under the area plan of testing or any other plan. The money so appropriated shall be placed in a fund to be used in the county, township, municipality or other designated area in which it originated subject to the approval of the state department.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-37 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-37 - Testing at instance of majority of owners in area, representing three-fourths of cattle

4:5-37. Testing at instance of majority of owners in area, representing three-fourths of cattle  When a majority of the resident cattle owners, representing seventy-five per cent of the cattle in a county, township, municipality or other designated area have either placed their cattle under supervision or petitioned upon forms issued and approved by the department for tuberculin testing of their cattle, the department shall notify the board of freeholders or other governing body of the county, township, municipality or other designated area of such fact and may commence tuberculin testing under the area or any other approved plans without expense to the owner to the extent of funds available, provided the owners agree to comply with all the provisions of this article and all orders, rules and regulations formulated thereon.
NJ Rev Stat § 4:5-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals|Section 4:5-38 - Testing and quarantine at instance of three-fourths of owners within area

4:5-38. Testing and quarantine at instance of three-fourths of owners within area  When seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners in a county, township, municipality or other designated area have filed petitions and agreements with the department for the tuberculin testing of their cattle under the area or any other plan of testing approved by the department, the department shall cause a notice of such fact to be published in two newspapers of general circulation in the county or counties where the cattle are maintained and after a period of thirty days from the publication of the notice the state board of agriculture shall order placed under quarantine all cattle that have not been officially tuberculin tested or whose owners have not petitioned for an official tuberculin test and under such quarantine no cattle shall be sold, given away or otherwise removed from the premises except on written order issued by the department. All owners of cattle quarantined under this section shall be allowed the same privilege of petitioning the department for the application of an official tuberculin test and removal of the quarantine as provided for in this article.