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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-42 - Publication of notice of compliance

4:13-42. Publication of notice of compliance
Whenever a co-operative association shall have obtained a certificate of compliance and have filed the same in the office of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall publish a notice thereof in the next succeeding issue of the pamphlet laws, and shall send a copy of such notice to the county clerk of the county in which, according to his records, the principal office of the association is located. The county clerk shall file such copy and make appropriate entry on his records without charge.
L.1951, c. 303, p. 1093, s. 14. Amended by L.1953, c. 332, p. 1887, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-43 - Definitions

4:13-43. Definitions
The words and phrases used herein shall, unless the content otherwise indicates, have the following meanings:
(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey or his duly authorized agent.
(b) "Cooperative association" means any association authorized to do business in New Jersey pursuant to the provisions of chapter 13 of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes and the amendments and supplements thereto.
(c) "Producer" means any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in producing or raising any agricultural commodities.
(d) "Processor" means any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation who cans, freezes, dries, or otherwise preserves or processes, handles, hauls, carries, transports, or distributes any agricultural commodities as herein defined and shall include any agent of any such processor.
(e) "Agricultural commodities" include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee and any farm products including fresh and salt water products.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 1, eff. July 27, 1962.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-44 - Public policy

4:13-44. Public policy
It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and the public policy of this State to establish and support the right of any producer to join voluntarily and belong to cooperative associations.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 2, eff. July 27, 1962.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-45 - Unfair practices

4:13-45. Unfair practices
It is an unfair practice, and unlawful, for any processor, or for any other person, to do any of the following:
(a) Interfere with, restrain, coerce or boycott producers in the exercise of the rights guaranteed pursuant to section 2 hereof.
(b) Discriminate against producers with respect to price or other terms of purchase of agricultural commodities, by reason of the producer's membership in or contract with a cooperative association.
(c) Pay or loan money, or give or loan any other thing of value to a producer as an inducement or reward for refusing to or ceasing to belong to a cooperative association.
(d) Knowingly give false reports about the finances, management or activities of a cooperative association.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 3, eff. July 27, 1962.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-46 - Violations; complaints; hearings

4:13-46. Violations; complaints; hearings
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act the secretary is authorized to receive complaints from producers against any processor, or any other person, with respect to violations of the unfair practices specified in section 3. Upon being satisfied as to the bona fides of the complaint the secretary may conduct a hearing on the complaint and shall furnish such persons with a copy of the complaint and a notice of the time and place of hearing, which notice shall be served either personally or by registered mail directly to his place of business or last known residence address, with postage prepaid, at least 10 days prior to the time fixed for hearing.
In the hearing of any complaint the secretary or assistant whom he may designate may sign and issue subpoenas, administer oaths, examine witnesses, take depositions, receive evidence and require by subpoenas the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of such accounts, records and memoranda, as may be material in the determination of the matter alleged in the complaint.
The secretary shall render a decision either dismissing the complaint or specifying the facts which he deems established at the hearing.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 4, eff. July 27, 1962. Amended by L.1971, c. 324, s. 15, eff. Oct. 28, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-47 - Injunctions

4:13-47. Injunctions
The secretary may also bring an action to restrain the violation or threatened violation of any provision of this act in the Superior Court.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 5, eff. July 27, 1962. Amended by L.1971, c. 324, s. 16, eff. Oct. 28, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-48 - Penalties

4:13-48. Penalties
Any processor who shall have been found to have violated any of the provisions of this act shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 for each offense to be sued for and recovered by and in the name of the "State of New Jersey."
L.1962, c. 131, s. 6, eff. July 27, 1962. Amended by L.1971, c. 324, s. 17, eff. Oct. 28, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-49 - Penalty enforcement proceedings; process; summary proceedings; jail sentence

4:13-49. Penalty enforcement proceedings; process; summary proceedings; jail sentence
In proceedings for the collection and enforcement of a penalty imposed because of the violation of any provision of this act, process shall issue in the name of the State as plaintiff, upon the complaint of the secretary. The penalty shall be collected and enforced in summary proceedings pursuant to the Penalty Enforcement Law (N.J.S. 2A:58-1 et seq.). The court shall, if judgment be rendered for the plaintiff, cause any defendant who may refuse or neglect to pay forthwith the amount of the judgment rendered against him and all the costs and charges incident thereto, to be committed to the county jail for any period not exceeding 100 days.
L.1962, c. 131, s. 7, eff. July 27, 1962.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:13-50 - Compliance not deemed conspiracy or combination in restraint of trade, etc.; dissemination of information; marketing adjustments

4:13-50. Compliance not deemed conspiracy or combination in restraint of trade, etc.; dissemination of information; marketing adjustments
a. No association complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a conspiracy, or a combination in restraint of trade, or an illegal monopoly; or be deemed to have been formed for the purpose of lessening competition or fixing prices arbitrarily, nor shall the contracts between the association and its producers, or any agreements authorized in this act, be construed as an unlawful restraint of trade, or as a part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose or act.
b. An association may acquire, exchange, interpret and disseminate past, present and prospective crop, market, statistical, economic and other similar information relating to the business of the association, either directly or through an agent created or selected by it or by other associations acting in conjunction with it.
c. An association may advise its members in respect to the adjustment of their current and prospective production of agricultural commodities and its relation to the prospective volume of consumption, selling prices and existing or potential surplus, to the end that every market may be served from the most convenient productive areas under a program of orderly marketing that will assure adequate supplies without undue enhancement of prices or the accumulation of any undue surplus of agricultural products.
L.1971, c. 324, s. 18, eff. Oct. 28, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:14-2 - Membership and organization

4:14-2. Membership and organization
The membership of the county boards shall consist of all the members of the agricultural and horticultural associations of each county, and such others as they may elect:
a. In counties having no agricultural or horticultural associations any number of citizens not less than ten may organize a county board of agriculture by electing a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and a board of not less than five directors, adopting the name of "the county board of agriculture" (inserting in each case the name of the proper county), and filing with the secretary of agriculture a certificate of such organization. Upon the formation of any agricultural or horticultural association in the county, they shall become members of such county board, as provided in paragraphs "b" and "c" of this section;
b. In counties having but one agricultural or horticultural organization (whether known and designated as a "society," "club" or "grange" ), such organization may become the county board of agriculture for such county by electing the officers and directors prescribed in paragraph "a" of this section, adopting the name of "the county board of agriculture" (inserting the name of the proper county) and filing with the secretary of agriculture a certificate of such organization;
c. In counties having more than one agricultural or horticultural organization (whether known and designated as "societies," "clubs" or "granges" ), such organizations, or so many of them (not less than two) as may elect so to do, may organize a county board of agriculture by electing a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and a board of directors to consist of at least one member of each agricultural or horticultural organization of the county (that may elect to become members of such county board), adopting the name of "the county board of agriculture" (inserting in each case the name of the proper county), and filing with the secretary of agriculture a certificate of such organization;
d. The president, secretary and treasurer of the county board of agriculture shall be ex-officio members of the board of directors of the board;
e. Every certificate filed, as provided in this section, shall truly and correctly state--first, the name of the county board filing the same; second, the date of its organization under this section; third, the names of its officers and directors; fourth, the names of bona fide members in each organization represented in the county board at the date of organizing said board, and the names of such organizations.
Amended by L.1946, c. 108, p. 333, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:14-3 - Annual reports to department; report of delegates to annual convention

4:14-3. Annual reports to department; report of delegates to annual convention
Each county board of agriculture shall, on or before December fifteenth in each year, make a full report of the transactions of the board during the year next preceding, with as complete a statement as practicable, of the condition, progress and results of agricultural and horticultural industries in such counties respectively, together with reports of such special subjects of inquiry as may from time to time present themselves to such county boards, or be submitted by the department of agriculture and forward the same to the secretary of agriculture.
The representatives of county boards at the state agricultural convention shall make a full report to their respective county boards of the proceedings of that convention.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:14-4 - Annual apportionments to county boards

4:14-4. Annual apportionments to county boards
The department of agriculture may apportion to the several county boards of agriculture annually, such sum or sums of money for the information secured and labor performed in connection with the reports of such county boards as the department shall deem equitable; but such amount shall not exceed one hundred dollars in any one year to any county board, one-half of this amount, when the sum appropriated does not exceed sixty dollars, to go to the person making up the report and the balance to the treasury of the county board to pay its running expenses.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:14-7 - Manner of paying expenses

4:14-7. Manner of paying expenses
The necessary expenses of conducting the state horticultural society shall be audited by its executive committee, approved by its president and attested by its secretary, and shall be presented to the comptroller of the state, who shall pay the same to the treasurer of the society out of the appropriation made for that purpose.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-2 - Authority to hold fairs and exhibitions

4:15-2. Authority to hold fairs and exhibitions
An association may:
a. Hold fairs and exhibitions of agricultural, horticultural, mechanical and manufacturing productions, collections and discoveries of works of art, of live stock and animals, and for the encouragement of competition in the breeding of stock and the development of speed and other qualities in animals;
b. Provide and maintain grounds, buildings, road tracks, walks and other improvements necessary or desirable for the proper display of exhibits;
c. Encourage competition by the offer and payment of premiums and awards for stock and articles of a superior kind, class or quality; and
d. Ask and receive reasonable fees for the admittance of exhibitors and visitors.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-3 - Police jurisdiction of directors

4:15-3. Police jurisdiction of directors
For the purpose of maintaining order and preserving the peace and decorum upon grounds on which a fair and exhibition is held by an association the directors shall:
a. Have police jurisdiction upon the grounds and for a distance of one-quarter of a mile from the boundaries of the grounds;
b. Suppress the sale of intoxicating liquors by persons not regularly licensed by the public authorities; and
c. Prohibit every species of gambling and breach of the peace or laws of this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-4 - Appointment and qualification of special officers

4:15-4. Appointment and qualification of special officers
The directors of an association, or a majority of them, may appoint from time to time, as many fit persons as they may deem proper, as special police officers. Each such officer, before entering upon his duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he will well and truly serve the State, and will perform all his duties to the best of his knowledge and ability. The oath shall be filed forthwith in the office of the county clerk who shall indorse thereon the date of filing and shall be paid the sum of twenty cents ($0.20) for each oath so filed.
Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 40, s. 40.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-5 - Powers and duties of special officers

4:15-5. Powers and duties of special officers
Special officers so appointed and sworn shall possess, so long as the directors choose to retain them, the powers and authority, on the grounds and within the limits fixed in section 4:15-3 of this title, vested in constables in criminal cases in this state. They may, without process, arrest all persons there found who shall:
a. Violate any of the laws of this state;
b. Conduct themselves in a disorderly manner;
c. Disturb or wrongfully interfere with the fair and exhibition or the exhibitors or visitors; or
d. Violate any of the rules or regulations of the association.
Any person so arrested shall be taken, as soon as conveniently may be, before a magistrate of the county in which the fair and exhibition is held, there to be dealt with according to law.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-6 - Right of owner to hold fairs

4:15-6. Right of owner to hold fairs
The owner of any stud farm used for the breeding of fancy trotting or racing stock in this state may hold upon such farm, as often as he may deem proper, fairs or exhibitions for the development of speed or other desired qualities, and, to encourage competition, may offer premiums and rewards for stock exhibited and for superiority in the objects sought for, and ask, demand and receive, for his own use, reasonable fees for admittance.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-7 - Police jurisdiction of owner; liquor; gambling

4:15-7. Police jurisdiction of owner; liquor; gambling
For the purpose of preserving good order, peace and decorum upon and about farms or exhibition grounds and among the visitors and spectators to the same, the owner shall have police jurisdiction within the boundaries of any of such grounds. The owner shall not sell or permit the sale upon his grounds of any vinous, spirituous or malt liquors, or gamble or permit gambling in any form whatever upon the grounds.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-8 - Appointment and qualification of special officers

4:15-8. Appointment and qualification of special officers
The owner of a stud farm who shall hold a fair or exhibition as provided in this article, may appoint from time to time, one or more fit persons as special police officers, each of whom, before entering upon his duties, shall qualify as provided in section 4:15-4 of this title relative to special officers appointed thereunder.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-9 - Powers and duties of special officers

4:15-9. Powers and duties of special officers
Persons appointed and sworn as provided in section 4:15-8 of this title shall possess the authority and powers on the stud farm and exhibition grounds, and on the lands and premises adjacent thereto, within the limits named in section 4:15-7 of this title, which constables possess in criminal cases in this state. They may, without process, arrest all persons there found who shall:
a. Violate any of the laws of this state;
b. Conduct themselves in a disorderly or immoral manner;
c. Disturb or wrongfully interfere with the meetings and exhibitions or visitors thereto;
d. Violate any of the rules and regulations of the owner which are plainly printed and posted in a conspicuous manner about the farm and exhibition grounds.
The persons so arrested shall be taken, as soon as conveniently may be, before a magistrate of the county, there to be dealt with according to law.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-10 - Maintenance and use

4:15-10. Maintenance and use
The state house commission is authorized to maintain the state exhibition building which was erected as provided in the act entitled "An act to provide for the erection and maintenance of a state exhibition building for the display and exhibit of the educational features, and the institutional, agricultural and horticultural products of the state, and making an appropriation therefor," approved March tenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one (L.1921, c. 40, p. 67).
Such building and the land on which it is situated shall be held in the name of the state by the state house commission or its successors in office and shall be used for the purposes enumerated in the title of said act.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-11 - One-day livestock shows; rules and regulations

4:15-11. One-day livestock shows; rules and regulations
The Department of Agriculture shall encourage and promote education and interest in the production of pure-bred livestock. In order to demonstrate the characteristics of individual breeds, including ideal conformation and production qualities, and to assist in the selection of outstanding animals of each breed for the purpose of exhibition in national competition, and to encourage the State's livestock industry, one-day livestock shows may be authorized by the department, to be held under the auspices of the State pure-bred livestock associations. Any such show shall be conducted in conformity with the rules and regulations of the Department of Agriculture relating to disease control and the awarding of premiums, prizes and trophies.
L.1953, c. 302, p. 1843, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-13 - Moneys for premiums, awards and maintenance

4:15-13. Moneys for premiums, awards and maintenance
The department may include in its annual budget request an item not in excess of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the purposes of this act. Any moneys appropriated for these purposes shall be expended only for premiums, awards and maintenance of the associations' one-day shows.
L.1953, c. 302, p. 1843, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:15-14 - Dog sled racing

4:15-14. Dog sled racing
An organization created for the purpose of promoting the breeding, care, and training of dogs to draw sleds, carts, or wheel rigs, including the International Sled Dog Racing Association and its affiliates in this State, or other similar association which has been in existence for at least five years and which has been classified as a nonprofit corporation and certified as exempt from the payment of federal income tax by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury may conduct or sponsor dog sled races or exhibitions of dog sled racing, carting, weight pull, and freight racing skill with dogs specifically bred and trained for that purpose, in conjunction with the owners thereof. The proper care, humane treatment, and protection of a dog participating in a dog sled race, freight race, weight pull, or carting exhibition shall be the responsibility of its owner and all dog sled races, freight race, weight pull, or carting exhibitions shall be conducted in a manner not inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 22 of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.
L. 1985, c. 433, s. 2, eff. Jan. 13, 1986.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-1 - Station continued

4:16-1. Station continued
The New Jersey agricultural experiment station, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "experiment station" , with suitable branches, established by the act entitled "An act to provide for the establishment of an agricultural experiment station," approved March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty (L.1880, c. 106, p. 137), is continued. The experiment station is established for the benefit of practical and scientific agriculture, and for the development of the unimproved lands of the state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-6 - Duties of board

4:16-6. Duties of board
The board of managers shall:
a. Locate the experiment station and branches;
b. Appoint a director who shall have the general management and oversight of the experiments and investigations necessary to carry out the objects of the institution;
c. Employ competent chemists and other assistants necessary to analyze soils, fertilizers and objects of agricultural interest, so as to properly carry on the work of the station; and may employ such competent persons for investigation in floriculture as may be required;
d. Make an annual report of its work to the governor of the state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-7 - Acceptance of conveyances

4:16-7. Acceptance of conveyances
The board of managers, with the approval of the state house commission, may accept conveyances of land in any portion of this state for the purpose of carrying on the work of the experiment station. Such conveyances, when made, shall be to the state of New Jersey.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-8 - Annual appropriations for station and its activities

4:16-8. Annual appropriations for station and its activities
There shall be appropriated annually out of the general revenues of the state for salaries and wages and for the expenses of maintenance and operation of the experiment station and its authorized activities, such sums as may be included for that purpose in any appropriation act.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-9 - Analysis of milk, butter or other farm products

4:16-9. Analysis of milk, butter or other farm products
The chemist or chemists of the experiment station shall analyze all samples of milk, butter or other farm products, or the imitations thereof, that may be sent to the station by the department of health, and shall report to such department the results of the analysis, and the costs thereof shall be paid out of the appropriation made to the station.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-10 - Investigation of oyster propagation

4:16-10. Investigation of oyster propagation
The director of the experiment station may:
a. Establish and maintain one or more stations for the scientific investigation of oyster propagation and other ostreicultural problems, which station or stations shall be situated at a point or points in the oyster-growing sections of this state;
b. Procure boats adapted to the prosecution of such research work and have them equipped with suitable apparatus;
c. Engage experts and others needed in the maintenance of the ostreicultural studies;
d. Transmit to the governor, annually, in the reports of the experiment station, a complete report of the scientific operations under this section.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-11 - Investigation of biology of sewage disposal

4:16-11. Investigation of biology of sewage disposal
The experiment station shall conduct an investigation of the biology of sewage disposal, to the end that more effective methods of sewage purification may be discovered and applied to the purification of sewage in this state, and may expend for such purpose such sums as shall be included in any appropriation act.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-13 - Maintenance of department; employment of assistants

4:16-13. Maintenance of department; employment of assistants
The experiment station may maintain a department of poultry husbandry as a part of the work of the station, and employ assistants necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 4:16-12 to 4:16-16 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-14 - Acquisition of buildings, equipment and supplies

4:16-14. Acquisition of buildings, equipment and supplies
The board of managers of the experiment station may erect for the use of such department, upon land set aside for that purpose by the trustees of the state agricultural college, such buildings as may be appropriate or necessary and may purchase and acquire such poultry, incubators, brooders and other supplies as are necessary for the proper equipment of the department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-17 - Egg-laying and breed-testing stations; employment of assistants

4:16-17. Egg-laying and breed-testing stations; employment of assistants
The experiment station, through the department of poultry husbandry, may conduct three egg-laying and breed-testing stations as a part of the regular research work thereof, and employ assistants necessary to carry on the work. The stations shall be located, respectively, in the northern part of the state in the vicinity of Westwood, Bergen county, in the central part of the state in a place designated by the department, and in the southern part of the state in the vicinity of Vineland, Cumberland county.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-18 - Investigations and instruction in poultry diseases

4:16-18. Investigations and instruction in poultry diseases
The experiment station, in its department of poultry husbandry, may conduct research, investigational, instructional and demonstrational work in the subject of poultry diseases and parasites for the benefit of the poultry industry of the state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-19 - Supervision of work; poultry pathologist and laboratory assistant

4:16-19. Supervision of work; poultry pathologist and laboratory assistant
The work authorized by section 4:16-18 of this title, shall be done under the supervision of the poultry husbandman as head of the department of poultry husbandry. The experiment station may employ a trained poultry pathologist and, if necessary, a laboratory assistant. The poultry pathologist shall become a member of the staff of the department and shall devote his entire time to the work authorized by said section 4:16-18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-20 - Meetings of poultry raisers

4:16-20. Meetings of poultry raisers
For the purpose of encouraging poultry raising in this state, the experiment station, through the department of poultry husbandry, shall arrange for meetings of persons engaged in the business of poultry raising.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21 - Instruction in poultry raising; poultry exhibitions

4:16-21. Instruction in poultry raising; poultry exhibitions
At meetings held as provided in section 4:16-20 of this title, the department of poultry husbandry:
a. Shall provide for instruction in poultry raising;
b. Shall arrange for, organize, prepare and superintend exhibitions at which all recognized varieties of poultry as determined and judged by the American Standard of Perfection may be shown;
c. May charge an admission sufficient to pay the expense of the exhibitions, and any surplus remaining therefrom shall be maintained in a fund and devoted to future exhibitions under the supervision of the department.
The department may award premiums to the exhibitors of poultry, shall formulate all rules and regulations governing such exhibitions and the award of such premiums, and shall arrange for the time and place of holding the exhibitions, which, if practicable, shall be held in each of the counties of the state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.1 - Turkey breeding and feeding research farm

4:16-21.1. Turkey breeding and feeding research farm
For the purpose of promoting the development of the agricultural resources of the State and for encouraging the further development of the important poultry industry in the State, the New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station is hereby authorized to establish and maintain in the vicinity of Millville a turkey breeding and feeding research farm, and to employ such assistants as may be necessary to carry on the operation of the same.
L.1938, c. 179, p. 389, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.2 - Co-operation of board of chosen freeholders

4:16-21.2. Co-operation of board of chosen freeholders
The board of chosen freeholders are authorized and empowered to include in any project such amount as they shall determine for the erection of buildings on lands of this State and for the purpose of co-operating with the State in the establishment and maintenance of any farm or farms under the act to which this act is a supplement.
L.1939, c. 6, p. 18, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.3 - Studies of communicable diseases of domestic fowls authorized

4:16-21.3. Studies of communicable diseases of domestic fowls authorized
The Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University of New Jersey, through its Department of Poultry Husbandry, is authorized and directed to make studies of Newcastle Disease of poultry, and other communicable diseases of domestic fowls, with respect to the nature of such diseases, their causes, symptoms, and control measures, in effort to assist those engaged in poultry farming in this State in the treatment and control of such diseases, and to report results, as accrued, through the usual channels of publication employed by that institution.
L.1947, c. 287, p. 999, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.4 - Poultry pathology laboratory; Monmouth and Ocean counties; establishment

4:16-21.4. Poultry pathology laboratory; Monmouth and Ocean counties; establishment
The Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University of New Jersey is authorized and directed to establish, erect and maintain a poultry pathology laboratory in the vicinity of the boundary line separating the counties of Monmouth and Ocean.
L.1953, c. 347, p. 1912, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.5 - Vineland laboratory; expansion and improvement

4:16-21.5. Vineland laboratory; expansion and improvement
The Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University of New Jersey is authorized and directed to expand and improve the facilities and equipment of the existing poultry pathology laboratory at Vineland by the expenditure of not in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00).
L.1953, c. 347, p. 1912, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-21.6 - Appropriation

4:16-21.6. Appropriation
There is appropriated to the Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University of New Jersey the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) to carry out the requirements of this act if and when included in any annual or supplemental appropriation act.
L.1953, c. 347, p. 1912, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-23 - County agricultural agents

4:16-23. County agricultural agents
The board of managers of the experiment station may, whenever it seems necessary, appoint a county agricultural agent for each of the counties of this state, who shall:
a. Be a man of practical experience;
b. Reside, during his term of office, in the county for which he is chosen;
c. Devote his time to the supervision and furtherance of farm demonstration work in his county, under the supervision and direction of the director of the extension service;
d. Receive the salary fixed by the director of the extension service, which salary, or so much thereof as the director of the extension service may require, shall be paid by the county for which the agent is appointed, from money appropriated for that purpose by the county.
The board of managers may change the designation of the office of county agricultural agent to such name as it may determine.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-24 - Continuous course of demonstrations in counties

4:16-24. Continuous course of demonstrations in counties
For the purpose of assisting the farmers of this state to care for and improve the conditions of the soil, to increase the productivity of the farms and the value of farm products, the director of the extension service shall conduct a continuous course of demonstration of the most improved and scientific methods of agriculture in the various counties of this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-25 - Selection of farms for demonstration

4:16-25. Selection of farms for demonstration
The director of the extension service shall select for purposes of demonstration, farms in the various counties of this state which are most convenient of access to the majority of the farmers of such counties, the owners of which consent thereto and agree to co-operate in such demonstration work. The work upon any particular farm may be abandoned at any time it becomes evident that the work upon that farm fails to produce the proper results.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-26 - Performance of demonstration work

4:16-26. Performance of demonstration work
The demonstration work contemplated by this article shall be performed by the owners of the farms selected, under the supervision of the director of the extension service and the county agricultural agents. The farms upon which such work is in progress shall be open to the inspection of all persons interested in order that the results thereof may be as clearly and widely observed as possible.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-27 - County appropriations

4:16-27. County appropriations
The boards of chosen freeholders of the various counties of this state may appropriate for the purpose of farm demonstration work in their several counties such sums of money as shall seem to them just and proper to be expended in the counties making such appropriation by the county agricultural agent, under the supervision and direction of the director of the extension service.
Appropriations made by any county shall be used only in such county in addition to the funds appropriated by the state and in furtherance of the projects contemplated by sections 4:16-22 to 4:16-30 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-28 - State appropriation

4:16-28. State appropriation
There shall be appropriated annually out of the general revenues of this state for the expenses of carrying into effect the purposes of sections 4:16-22 to 4:16-30 of this title, such sum as may be included in any appropriation act.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-29 - Use of state or county appropriations

4:16-29. Use of state or county appropriations
The funds appropriated for the purposes of sections 4:16-22 to 4:16-30 of this title by the state and the counties shall be used only, except for the payment of salaries and expenses as provided in said sections 4:16-22 to 4:16-30, in giving field instruction on their own land to farmers selected by the director of the extension service, as a part of the regular business of farming; and no part of such appropriations shall be used in maintaining a state farm, in conducting experiments not in the line of regular farm work, or in the distribution of literature.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-30 - Co-operation with federal department

4:16-30. Co-operation with federal department
In the performance of his duties under this article the director of the extension service may act in co-operation with the United States department of agriculture so long as that department continues to operate in this state, but shall not be limited by, or depend upon, the continuance of such work by the United States department of agriculture.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-31 - Demonstration farms on state institutional lands

4:16-31. Demonstration farms on state institutional lands
A branch agricultural demonstration farm or an extension of the system of scientific farming may be established on any lands owned by the state in whole or in part for charitable or correctional purposes and the labor of convicts or others located thereon may be utilized in connection with the work.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-31.1 - Victory garden program; organizing and guiding

4:16-31.1. Victory garden program; organizing and guiding
The State Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized and directed to organize and guide the educational phases of the victory garden program, and to distribute printed information and provide assistance through demonstrations and supervision to assure the most effective use of seed, fertilizers and other materials.
L.1943, c. 137, p. 386, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-31.2 - Canning, drying, freezing, brining of foods; encouraging and promoting

4:16-31.2. Canning, drying, freezing, brining of foods; encouraging and promoting
The State Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized and directed to encourage and promote the preservation and conservation of food by means of home and community programs of canning, drying, freezing, brining and other suitable processes, to maintain the health of New Jersey families and to conserve the products of victory gardens and commercial farms.
L.1943, c. 137, p. 387, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:16-31.3 - Enlisting participation and cooperation of state and federal agencies and departments

4:16-31.3. Enlisting participation and cooperation of state and federal agencies and departments
In carrying out the purposes of this act, the State Agricultural Experiment Station is authorized and directed to enlist the participation and co-operation of the State Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health, the Department of Public Instruction, the Office of Civilian Defense and its subordinate Defense Councils, and other Federal, State, county, municipal and private agencies in promoting the health and welfare of the citizens of New Jersey and the more effective conduct of the war effort.
L.1943, c. 137, p. 387, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:17-3 - Arrest of offenders without warrant.

4:17-3 Arrest of offenders without warrant.
4:17-3. A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article may be arrested without warrant by the owner, occupant, lessee, or licensee, or an officer of the law and taken for trial before the appropriate court pursuant to R.S.4:17-2.
amended 1953, c.5, s.42; 2018, c.121, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:17-4 - Failure to produce permit as evidence.

4:17-4 Failure to produce permit as evidence.
4:17-4. In a prosecution for violation of the provisions of this article, the failure of the defendant to produce a written permit to enter upon the lands upon which the defendant is charged with trespassing, signed by the owner, occupant, lessee, or licensee thereof, shall be prima facie proof that the defendant was forbidden by the owner, occupant, lessee, or licensee to enter upon the lands of the owner, occupant, lessee, or licensee.
amended 2018, c.121, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:17-5 - Jail for non-payment of fine.

4:17-5 Jail for non-payment of fine.
4:17-5. Upon the failure of a person convicted of violating the provisions of this article to pay a fine as imposed pursuant to this article, the court convicting the person may commit such person to the county jail until the fine is paid.
amended 1953, c.5, s.43; 2018, c.121, s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:17-9 - Injury to or taking of wild flowers, plants or trees; penalty

4:17-9. Injury to or taking of wild flowers, plants or trees; penalty
A person who, without the personal direction or written consent of the owner of the property, shall:
a. Remove, cut, break, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, flower, vine or moss, or attempt so to do;
b. Take any tree, holly, laurel, rhododendrons, winterberry or ground pine--
Shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars in an action at law to be commenced within three months from the time of the commission of the offense. Nothing in this section shall apply to public utility companies or their agents engaged in the performance of public utility company duties.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:17-10 - Injuring, destroying or removing trees, saplings or poles; penalty

4:17-10. Injuring, destroying or removing trees, saplings or poles; penalty
A person who shall cut, fell, work up, carry away, box, bore or destroy any tree, sapling or pole, standing or lying on any land within this State to which he has no right and title, without leave first obtained of the owner of the land for that purpose, shall forfeit and pay the sum of eight dollars ($8.00) for each tree, sapling or pole so cut, felled, worked up, carried away, boxed, bored or destroyed. One-half of such sum shall go to the owner or owners of the land and the other half to the person or persons suing for and prosecuting the same to effect, at any time within eighteen months from the commission of the acts complained of.
Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 42, s. 45.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:18A-1 - Funds held by United States as trustee in behalf of New Jersey Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; receipt from Federal officials

4:18A-1. Funds held by United States as trustee in behalf of New Jersey Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; receipt from Federal officials
The Secretary of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey (hereinafter called the "secretary" ) is hereby designated as the State official of New Jersey to make application to and receive from the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or any other proper Federal official, pursuant and subject to the provisions of Public Law 499, 81st Congress, approved May third, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, the trust assets, either funds or property, held by the United States as trustee in behalf of the New Jersey Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, now dissolved.
L.1951, c. 321, p. 1151, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:18A-2 - Funds to be forwarded to State Treasurer; disbursement

4:18A-2. Funds to be forwarded to State Treasurer; disbursement
Funds and the proceeds of the trust assets return to the secretary in accordance with an application made pursuant to section one of this act and all moneys collected under this act shall be forwarded to the Treasurer of the State of New Jersey. The State Treasurer shall disburse same, subject to the provisions of this act, and in the same manner as other Federal funds, devoted to specific purposes, are now disbursed by him.
L.1951, c. 321, p. 1152, s. 2.