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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.30 - Interference with test or treatment or mark

4:5-93.30. Interference with test or treatment or mark
No person shall treat any live stock with a material or substance for the purpose of interfering with a test for brucellosis or causing or preventing a reaction to such test, or shall interfere in any way with a representative of the department who is making or assisting with a test for brucellosis or shall alter or change any mark of identification for the purpose of misrepresenting the true identity of any live stock or shall otherwise attempt to interfere with the identification of any live stock.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 896, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.32 - Agreement as to value of condemned animal; appraisement; compensation

4:5-93.32. Agreement as to value of condemned animal; appraisement; compensation
The veterinarian making an official 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 as of the day of appraisement, or the owner of the animal condemned may agree that the value of the animal be determined by appraisement as provided in section 14 or section 15 of this act.
For each animal slaughtered as the result of an official test under a program prescribed by the board to prevent the spread of brucellosis, the owner shall receive the net proceeds of the sale of the animal and, in addition thereto, subject to the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations of the board governing compensation for condemned animals, may be paid 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.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 896, s. 12. Amended by L.1973, c. 47, s. 5, eff. March 2, 1973.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.33 - Report of sale; false statement; salvage; charges deductible

4:5-93.33. Report of sale; false statement; salvage; charges deductible
A report of the sale of any animal shall be made on blank forms 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 shall be found to be willfully false. Delivery and slaughtering charges may be deducted, but any charges for holding the animal pending slaughter shall not be deductible in computing the amount, if any, to be paid by the State.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 897, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.34 - Appraisement before test

4:5-93.34. Appraisement before test
Immediately before commencing any test, if it be 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 animal as of the day of appraisement, and in case the animal so appraised gives a positive or suspicious reaction to such official test for brucellosis, the amount of the appraisement as agreed upon prior to the making of the test shall be official and shall bind the owner and the department.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 897, s. 14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.35 - Appraisers; appointment; duties

4:5-93.35. Appraisers; appointment; duties
In any case where no agreement shall 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 as of the day of appraisement.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 898, s. 15.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.36 - Slaughter of reactors

4:5-93.36. Slaughter of reactors
When a written order has been issued by the director of the division for the removal to slaughter of live stock giving a positive or suspicious reaction to a test, under a plan of the division calling for payment of indemnities, it shall be slaughtered within fifteen days of time of appraisal under the direct supervision of a duly authorized agent or representative of the division at a time and place designated by the director of the division and the carcass shall be examined and judged as to fitness for food. No indemnities shall be paid unless the provisions of this section have been complied with.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 898, s. 16. Amended by L.1950, c. 9, p. 32, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.37 - Imported animals; conditions; indemnity

4:5-93.37. Imported animals; conditions; indemnity
No indemnity shall be paid on animals which have been imported into the State unless the following conditions shall have been met:
(a) the animal shall have been imported into the State in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board covering such importation,
(b) the animal shall have been added to the herd under a plan of the division calling for payment of indemnities in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board covering such herd additions, and
(c) the animal shall have been owned and maintained within the State for at least sixty days prior to the test showing a positive reaction.
Proof of ownership of any such animal shall be furnished by the owner to the department, upon its request.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 898, s. 17. Amended by L.1950, c. 9, p. 33, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.38 - Appraisement certificate; payment of indemnity

4:5-93.38. Appraisement certificate; payment of indemnity
Upon presentation of the appraisement certificate to the State Comptroller, with the approval of the department endorsed thereon, the owner shall be entitled to receive from the State treasury the sum fixed by this act.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 899, s. 18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.39 - Insufficiency of funds; order of payment

4:5-93.39. Insufficiency of funds; order of payment
Should funds be insufficient for the payment of indemnities for all reacting animals in any fiscal year the department or such board, bureau or other agency as may be charged with such duty shall pay indemnities in the order in which reports and vouchers are received in final approved form when funds again become available for this purpose.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 899, s. 19.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.41 - Co-operation with local and federal authorities

4:5-93.41. Co-operation with local and federal authorities
The department may co-operate with any township or county for the control and eradication of brucellosis within the State and with the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture in any system which may be adopted by such bureau for the prevention of the spread and the control of brucellosis and its eradication in the State of New Jersey, or any part thereof, or in the United States and its territories.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 899, s. 21.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.42 - Penalty for violation

4:5-93.42. Penalty for violation
A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, except as set forth in section eleven, shall, for a first offense, be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and shall for each subsequent offense, be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars ($200.00) or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
L.1946, c. 257, p. 900, s. 22.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.43 - Recovery of penalty; enforcement of imprisonment

4:5-93.43. Recovery of penalty; enforcement of imprisonment
Any penalty imposed for a violation of any provision of this act shall be sued for and recovered, and the imprisonment, if any, imposed, in any action brought by and in the name of the Secretary of Agriculture in the manner provided by article two of chapter twenty-three of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes (Secs. 4:23-11 et seq.).
L.1946, c. 257, p. 900, s. 23.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.44 - Appropriation

4:5-93.44. Appropriation
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated to the department the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00), when included in any annual appropriation act.
L.1946, c. 257, s. 24, eff. July 1, 1946.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.45 - Repeal

4:5-93.45. Repeal
Sections 4:5-76 to 4:5-93, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes are repealed.
L.1946, c. 257, s. 25, eff. July 1, 1946.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.46 - Repeal

4:5-93.46. Repeal
The act entitled "An act concerning the spread of Bang's disease in live stock (which causes undulant fever in the human race), and amending sections 4:5-76, 4:5-77, 4:5-78, 4:5-79, 4:5-80, 4:5-81, 4:5-83, 4:5-84, 4:5-85, 4:5-87, 4:5-88, 4:5-91 and 4:5-92 of the Revised Statutes, repealing section 4:5-90, and supplementing article three, of chapter five, of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes, and making an appropriation for such purposes," approved December sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and forty (P.L.1940, c. 231), is repealed.
L.1946, c. 257, s. 26, eff. July 1, 1946.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.48 - Brucellosis tests

4:5-93.48. Brucellosis tests
On and after July 1, 1956, the Division of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and its agents, may subject all cattle in this State to tests for brucellosis, which tests shall be conducted in accordance with rules and regulations established and promulgated by the Board of Agriculture, due consideration being given to the percentage of cattle tested, the desirability of maintaining the cattle population free from brucellosis, and other related factors.
L.1956, c. 104, p. 479, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.49 - Quarantine and slaughter of infected animals; orders; reports

4:5-93.49. Quarantine and slaughter of infected animals; orders; reports
On and after July 1, 1957, any animal giving a positive reaction to an official or private test shall not again be presented for a brucellosis test, but shall be immediately segregated, quarantined and held at the owner's expense until the division issues a written order to move the cattle, which removal shall be immediate and at the owner's expense, to a designated slaughtering center. The animals shall be slaughtered at the time and place specified in the written order, under the supervision of an authorized veterinarian approved by the division, who shall judge the carcass as to fitness for food and file a report thereon with the division within 5 days thereafter.
L.1956, c. 104, p. 479, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.50 - Purchase or sale without order prohibited

4:5-93.50. Purchase or sale without order prohibited
No person shall sell, offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of or purchase any animal that has been classified as a brucellosis reactor, either on official or private test, except on written order issued by the division.
L.1956, c. 104, p. 480, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-93.51 - Repealer

4:5-93.51. Repealer
Section 11 of the act to which this act is a supplement (P.L.1946, c. 257) is hereby repealed.
L.1956, c. 104, p. 480, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-94 - Definitions

4:5-94. Definitions
As used in this article:
"Division" means the Division of Animal Health.
"Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
"European fowl pest" means the contagious disease known by that name.
"Poultry" includes, chickens, roosters, capons, hens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeon and guinea fowl.
"Receiving point or station" includes railroad yards or sidings, express stations or other points where live poultry is received for immediate slaughter or any other purpose.
Amended by L.1967, c. 175, s. 8, eff. July 25, 1967.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-96 - Proper facilities at receiving points, stations or other premises

4:5-96. Proper facilities at receiving points, stations or other premises
Proper facilities must be provided by the owner of all receiving points or stations, slaughtering and distributing points or other premises where live poultry is kept for any purpose, for the handling of healthy poultry and the cleaning and disinfecting of all infected or exposed equipment, and the disposition of all dead or diseased poultry.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-97 - Sanitary condition at receiving points

4:5-97. Sanitary condition at receiving points
The receiving point or station, including the equipment thereof, and in addition all cars, trucks, wagons or other vehicles, coops, crates, batteries and other containers, used at any time in the handling of live poultry, must be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-98 - Receiving points, stations or other premises subject to regulations

4:5-98. Receiving points, stations or other premises subject to regulations
All receiving points or stations, slaughtering and distributing points or other premises where live poultry is kept for any purpose, shall be subject to such rules and regulations of the department as may be necessary to prevent the spread of European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-99 - Importation of infected or exposed poultry or containers

4:5-99. Importation of infected or exposed poultry or containers
No live poultry affected with or directly exposed to European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease of poultry, and no carcasses of poultry which have died from any such disease, or the coops, crates or other containers used in the handling of such diseased or dead poultry, or manure or litter from such diseased poultry or containers shall be shipped, transported or moved from any state in the United States, the District of Columbia or from any province of the Dominion of Canada into or through this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-100 - Transportation of infected or exposed poultry or containers

4:5-100. Transportation of infected or exposed poultry or containers
No live poultry affected with or directly exposed to European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease of poultry, and no carcass or carcasses of such poultry which have died from any such disease, or the coops, crates or other containers used in the handling of such diseased or dead poultry, or manure or litter from such diseased poultry or containers, shall be shipped, transported or moved from points within this State except under a permit from the director of the division.
Amended by L.1967, c. 175, s. 9, eff. July 25, 1967.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-101 - Removal of exposed poultry for slaughter

4:5-101. Removal of exposed poultry for slaughter
Live poultry found upon inspection to be exposed to European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease of poultry may be moved for immediate slaughter under a permit from the chief of the bureau, to such place or places as the permit shall designate and shall there be slaughtered under the direction or supervision of a representative of the department or its authorized agent.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-102 - Disinfecting poultry houses and premises

4:5-102. Disinfecting poultry houses and premises
All premises upon which poultry is found affected with or directly exposed to European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease of poultry, including poultry houses, crates, coops, containers, troughs, or other accessories, shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected by the owner thereof.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-104 - Co-operation with federal agencies

4:5-104. Co-operation with federal agencies
The department may co-operate with the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture in any general national system which may be adopted by such bureau for the prevention of the spread of European fowl pest or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease of poultry, and its eradication in the United States and its territories.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106 - Penalty for violating article

4:5-106. Penalty for violating article
A person who shall violate the provisions of this article 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 herein prescribed 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.).
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.1 - Definitions

4:5-106.1. Definitions
As used in this act:
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Agriculture.
"Board" means the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture.
"Secretary" means the New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture.
"Person" means the State, any municipality, political subdivision, institution, public or private, corporation, individual, partnership or other entity except that it shall not mean a person who feeds exclusively his own household garbage to swine which are raised for such person's own use.
"Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods including animal carcasses or parts thereof; but the term "garbage" shall not apply to waste materials from slaughterhouses which go directly to rendering plants for processing.
"Garbage-feeding hog farm" includes all premises on which 1 or more swine are maintained and are fed garbage which has been obtained elsewhere than on the premises where fed.
"Cooked or treated garbage" is garbage which, regardless of previous processing, has been heated either on the premises of the garbage-feeding hog farm where such garbage is to be fed, or at a location approved by the department, to a temperature high enough and for a sufficient length of time to kill disease organisms which are transmissible through garbage, or otherwise treated, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the board.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 533, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.2 - Rules and regulations

4:5-106.2. Rules and regulations
The board may adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act in order to prevent the spread of disease among domestic animals.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 533, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.3 - Duties of Department of Agriculture

4:5-106.3. Duties of Department of Agriculture
It shall be the duty of the department to:
a. License garbage-feeding hog farms as prescribed in this act;
b. Carry on a program which will demonstrate swine disease control practices and measures for the control and eradication of contagious and infectious diseases;
c. Enforce rules and regulations adopted by the board for the control of contagious and infectious swine diseases.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 534, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.4 - Licenses; exceptions

4:5-106.4. Licenses; exceptions
No person shall operate or conduct a garbage-feeding hog farm as defined in section 1 of this act unless licensed as provided in this act, but this act shall not apply to any person who feeds exclusively his own household garbage to swine which are raised for such person's own use.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 534, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.5 - Treatment of garbage

4:5-106.5. Treatment of garbage
No license shall be issued by the department to conduct a garbage-feeding hog farm, nor shall any place be used for that purpose, unless the department is satisfied that all rules and regulations of the board will be complied with, and that all garbage to be fed to swine will be satisfactorily treated or heated to a temperature high enough and for a sufficient length of time to kill disease organisms which are transmissible through garbage as set forth in this act.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 534, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.6 - Transfer of licenses

4:5-106.6. Transfer of licenses
No license issued under this act shall be transferable by the licensee, and each license shall apply to only one place of business which shall be specified in the license. Any licensee operating more than 1 such place of business shall obtain a separate license for each place.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 534, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.7 - Application for license; fee; expiration date

4:5-106.7. Application for license; fee; expiration date
Every applicant for a license to operate a garbage-feeding hog farm shall file his application with the department upon forms provided by the department which shall contain such information as the department shall require. Each application shall be accompanied by a fee of $25.00 if the applicant has less than 100 head of swine and $50.00 if the applicant has 100 or more head of swine which shall be retained by the department whether or not the license is issued. Every license so issued shall expire on December 31 next succeeding the date of its issuance and may be renewed upon filing such application accompanied by the required fee on or before December 1 in each year. All fees received pursuant to this act shall be paid into the State Treasury.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 535, s. 7. Amended by L.1971, c. 234, s. 1, eff. June 23, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.8 - Issuance of license; investigation

4:5-106.8. Issuance of license; investigation
Upon receiving an application for such license, the department shall send an authorized representative to inspect the premises where the applicant desires to conduct a garbage-feeding hog farm, and subject to approval of the buildings, equipment, sanitary conditions, and such other requirements as the board may deem necessary, the department shall issue to said applicant a license to conduct such business.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 535, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.9 - Notification of reasons for refusal to grant license

4:5-106.9. Notification of reasons for refusal to grant license
If the authorized representative of the department finds that such premises cannot be approved for a license upon inspection, he shall notify the applicant wherein the same fail to comply. If, within a reasonable time thereafter, to be fixed by the department, the specified defects are remedied, the department shall make a second inspection and proceed therewith as in the case of the original inspection.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 535, s. 9.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.10 - Impeding or preventing inspections

4:5-106.10. Impeding or preventing inspections
No authorized representative of the department shall be impeded or prevented from entering any garbage-feeding hog farm or any part of any building, or any part of the premises for the purpose of making inspections of the premises and the methods of operation as prescribed by this act or by the rules and regulations of the board as adopted and promulgated under this act.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 535, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.11 - Frequency of inspections

4:5-106.11. Frequency of inspections
The department shall send an authorized representative to inspect the buildings and premises of each licensee as often as it deems necessary and at least once during each license year.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 536, s. 11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.12 - Examination of records

4:5-106.12. Examination of records
Any authorized representative of the department may examine such records as are required, on forms supplied by the department, pertaining to the operation of a garbage-feeding hog farm. Copies of such records shall be submitted to the department on request.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 536, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.13 - Violations; issuance, restoration, revocation or suspension of licenses; hearings

4:5-106.13. Violations; issuance, restoration, revocation or suspension of licenses; hearings
The department shall have power to refuse to issue or restore, and to revoke or suspend the license of any person upon due hearing, on proof of violation of any provision of this act or of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this act, and shall have the power to require the attendance of witnesses and the production of such books, records and papers as it may desire. A written statement of the charges against such person shall be served upon him at least 10 days before the day set for the hearing. The hearing shall be before the Secretary of Agriculture or a duly authorized representative of the department and the person complained against shall have an opportunity to produce witnesses or other evidence in his behalf, and to confront witnesses against him.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 536, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.14 - Penalties

4:5-106.14. Penalties
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or any order, rule or regulation made by the board under this act, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $100.00 and for the second and each subsequent offense to a penalty of not more than $200.00.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 536, s. 14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.15 - Jurisdiction

4:5-106.15. Jurisdiction
15. Jurisdiction of proceedings to collect penalties collectible under the provisions of this act is vested in the Superior Court and the municipal court in any municipality where the defendant may be apprehended or where he may reside. Process shall be either a summons or warrant and shall be prosecuted in a summary manner pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law" (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.).
L.1957,c.140,s.15; amended 1991,c.91,s.157.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.16 - Imprisonment upon failure to pay judgment

4:5-106.16. Imprisonment upon failure to pay judgment
If judgment is rendered for the plaintiff the court shall cause a defendant who shall fail to pay forthwith the amount of the judgment rendered against him, and all costs and charges incident thereto, to be committed to the county jail until the judgment is paid but no such imprisonment shall exceed 30 days in the case of the first offense or 90 days for a second or subsequent offense.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 537, s. 16.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.17 - Committee representing swine industry

4:5-106.17. Committee representing swine industry
The board shall appoint a committee of 5 representatives of the swine industry of the State, 1 of whom shall be a producer of grain-fed swine, and 4 of whom shall be feeders of cooked or treated garbage. The members of this committee shall be appointed for 3-year terms running from January 1 to January 1, 3 years thereafter except that of the first members appointed, 1 shall be for a term of 1 year, 2 for a term of 2 years and 2 for a term of 3 years, as designated by the board. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner for the unexpired term only. The committee shall serve as an advisory committee to the board and to the secretary on all matters pertaining to the swine industry and to the control of contagious and infectious diseases of swine. All members of the committee shall serve without compensation.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 537, s. 17.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.18 - Effective date of license

4:5-106.18. Effective date of license
No license to operate a garbage-feeding hog farm shall be required in order to operate such a farm prior to January 1, 1958. On and after January 1, 1958, it shall be unlawful for any person to operate a garbage-feeding hog farm in this State, unless such person is the holder of the license required by this act.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 537, s. 18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-106.19 - Municipal regulations

4:5-106.19. Municipal regulations
Nothing herein contained shall preclude municipal regulation of garbage-feeding hog farms, provided such municipal control is consistent with, and in furtherance of, the provisions of this act; nor shall anything herein contained prevent the adoption of any ordinance or other regulation by the governing body or the local board of health of any municipality to exclude from the municipality any garbage-feeding hog farms or the importation of garbage into the municipality for hog feeding purposes; nor nullify any existing valid ordinance or other regulation of such nature heretofore adopted.
L.1957, c. 140, p. 537, s. 19.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-107 - Definitions

4:5-107. Definitions
As used in this article:
"Division" means the Division of Animal Health.
"Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
"Board" means the State Board of Agriculture.
Amended by L.1950, c. 293, p. 994, s. 11; L.1967, c. 175, s. 10, eff. July 25, 1967.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-108 - License for sale or distribution

4:5-108. License for sale or distribution
No person shall sell, give away or distribute to a person within the State any tuberculin, mallein, serum, virus, vaccine, bacterin or analogous product for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes for animals without a license or written permission therefor granted by the director of the division.
Amended by L.1950, c. 293, p. 994, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-109 - Rules and regulations; revocation of license

4:5-109. Rules and regulations; revocation of license
The director of the division may make rules and regulations for the enforcement of this article and failure to comply with the same shall be sufficient cause for him to revoke the license granted or permission given.
Amended by L.1950, c. 293, p. 994, s. 13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-110 - Permission to administer disease-producing substance

4:5-110. Permission to administer disease-producing substance
No person shall inject or otherwise administer to any domestic animal any virus or other disease-producing substance, or substance containing pathogenic or disease-producing germs of a kind that is virulent for domestic animals, unless specific permission for the purpose is granted by the director of the division in writing, upon blanks provided by the department for that purpose.
Amended by L.1950, c. 293, p. 994, s. 14.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-111 - Report of each sale and injection of tuberculin or mallein

4:5-111. Report of each sale and injection of tuberculin or mallein
Each sale, donation or distribution of tuberculin or mallein and each injection or test made with tuberculin or mallein within this State shall be reported in writing to the director of the division within seven days immediately after such sale, donation, distribution or test. The report shall be signed by the person making the same, and shall give the name of the purchaser or receiver of the tuberculin or mallein, the amount, the date of sale, donation or distribution, the name and address of the owner of the animals to be injected or tested, the locality where the test or injection was made, the description of the animals tested and a complete record of the test in detail upon blanks supplied by the department.
Amended by L.1950, c. 293, p. 995, s. 15.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5-112 - Penalty

4:5-112. Penalty
A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense to be sued for and recovered in a civil action by and in the name of the department.
Amended by L.1953, c. 5, p. 28, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-20 - Definitions

4:5A-20. Definitions
a. "Department" means the Department of Agriculture.
b. "Disposal plant" means a place of business or the location where the carcasses of domestic animals or meat packing house refuse are: (1) received or unloaded; (2) processed for the purpose of obtaining the hides, skin, grease residue, fertilizer, food for animals or any other by-product in any manner; or (3) fed to hogs, dogs, fur bearing or other animals, but shall not include an establishment inspected under the "Federal Meat Inspection Act" (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)
c. "Carcasses of domestic animals" means bodies or any part thereof of dead livestock which are not intended for human food.
d. "Reportable diseases" means diseases dangerous to animal health as enumerated in regulations of the department adopted under the authority of section 7 of P.L.1950, c. 293 (C. 4:1-21.5).
e. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 1, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-21 - Disposal plant; license to operate or conduct; fees; rules and regulations

4:5A-21. Disposal plant; license to operate or conduct; fees; rules and regulations
No person shall operate or conduct a disposal plant without a license from the department. The department shall, by rule and regulation adopted in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.), set fees for licenses and set reasonable inspection and sanitation standards for operators, buildings, containers and vehicles. Fees for licensing shall cover clerical, printing and inspection costs of the department.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 2, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-22 - Inspections

4:5A-22. Inspections
A licensee shall, upon the presentation of official credentials by any department employee or other duly authorized representative of the Secretary of Agriculture, during ordinary business hours, permit the representative to enter his place of business and examine the records required to be kept under section 4 of this act and the facilities and inventory pertaining to the business of the licensee, and to take reasonable samples of the inventory. Any necessary facilities, other than reproduction equipment, for the examination and copying of records and for the examination and sampling of inventory shall be afforded to the department employee or other authorized representative of the secretary.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 3, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-23 - Records

4:5A-23. Records
Each licensee shall keep at his place of business a record of each place at which he obtains carcasses of domestic animals, containing location, name and address of owner, date picked up and the sequence in which carcasses are picked up from each place on each date.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 4, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-24 - Hauling and transporting carcasses of animals dead from disease

4:5A-24. Hauling and transporting carcasses of animals dead from disease
A licensee may haul and transport the carcasses of animals that have died from disease, in a covered vehicle, bed or tank which is watertight and is so constructed that no drippings or seepings from the carcasses can escape from the vehicle, bed or tank. Such vehicle shall not be driven into the yard, or upon the premises of any person, unless the driver first obtains the permission of the person.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 5, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-25 - Penalties; enforcement

4:5A-25. Penalties; enforcement
6. a. The department shall annually adopt a penalty schedule for specific violations of the provisions of this act or regulations adopted pursuant to this act. Penalties shall be set between a minimum of $100.00 to a maximum of $3,000.00 per violation.
b. Penalties shall be collected in a summary proceeding pursuant to "the penalty enforcement law" (N.J.S.2A:58-1 et seq.). The Superior Court or any municipal court where the defendant may reside, or where the violation was detected, or where the defendant was apprehended shall have jurisdiction to enforce the act and the regulations adopted thereunder.
c. The department may bring an administrative action before an administrative law judge to enforce the provisions of this act or regulations adopted thereunder. Any final determination and penalty assessment by an administrative law judge may be enforced in the Superior Court in an action brought for that purpose by the Attorney General on behalf of the department.
d. Any habitual violation of the provisions of this act or any regulations adopted thereunder may be restrained by the Superior Court in an action brought for that purpose by the Attorney General on behalf of the department.
L.1983,c.179,s.6; amended 1991,c.91,s.158.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:5A-26 - Rules and regulations

4:5A-26. Rules and regulations
The department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act to prevent the spread of disease among domestic animals.
L.1983, c. 179, s. 7, eff. May 10, 1983.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-1 - Definitions

4:6-1. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
a. "Department" means the department of agriculture.
b. "Disease" unless otherwise herein limited or enlarged means the diseases known as American foulbrood or European foulbrood or other discoverable, contagious or infectious bee disease.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-3 - Infested colonies or apparatus as nuisance

4:6-3. Infested colonies or apparatus as nuisance
A colony of honey bees, or apparatus used in bee-keeping, known to be infested with American foulbrood or European foulbrood or other serious, discoverable, contagious or infectious bee disease is hereby declared a public nuisance and subject to abatement as provided in this chapter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-5 - Inspection of apiaries raising queen bees for sale

4:6-5. Inspection of apiaries raising queen bees for sale
A person in this State engaged in the rearing of queen bees for sale shall have his apiary inspected at least twice during each summer and a person who shall fail to comply with this requirement shall be liable to a penalty of $200.00. The department shall inspect all such apiaries at least twice each season, when requested by the owner.
Amended by L.1977, c. 159, s. 1, eff. July 14, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-6 - Certification of apiaries raising queen bees for sale

4:6-6. Certification of apiaries raising queen bees for sale
Whenever the department shall find any apiary where queen bees are raised for sale to be free from disease, as defined in section 4:6-1 of this title, he shall furnish the owner with a certificate to that effect. The certificate shall state the date of its expiration. It may be revoked at any time the department shall find evidence of the appearance of disease as defined in said section 4:6-1 in the queen rearing yard.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-7 - Notice to owner of diseased apiary

4:6-7. Notice to owner of diseased apiary
Whenever in the course of the inspections or investigations made or carried on by the department as provided in this chapter, it shall become aware of the existence of disease as defined in section 4:6-1 of this title in any apiary or colony of bees, it shall notify the owner or manager of the infested or diseased apiary or colony of the character of the infestation and of the treatment to be administered for the eradication of such disease.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-8 - Contents of notice and order for treatment

4:6-8. Contents of notice and order for treatment
The notice and order for treatment, referred to in section 4:6-7 of this title, shall be in writing and shall specify the time within which the prescribed treatment shall be administered, which shall not be less than eight days after the service of the notice. The directions for treatment shall be written or printed and may consist of a bulletin or other publication of the department or of the state agricultural experiment station.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-9 - Quarantine provision included in notice and order

4:6-9. Quarantine provision included in notice and order
In order to prevent the spread of the disease as defined in section 4:6-1 of this title between the time of its discovery and its eradication the notice and order shall include a provision placing the bee yard and equipment, of which the infected colony or equipment is a part, under quarantine forbidding the removal, sale, barter or giving away of the whole or any part thereof until the quarantine is lifted in whole or in part by written notice from the department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-10 - Type of hives required; seizure of other types as nuisances

4:6-10. Type of hives required; seizure of other types as nuisances
On and after July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep or to maintain honey bees in any hives other than modern, movable, frame hives which permit the thorough examination of every comb in order to detect the presence of bee diseases. All other types of boxes or receptacles for bees which are in use after July first, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and a menace to the community, and the Department of Agriculture may seize and destroy the same without remuneration to the owner.
Amended by L.1939, c. 104, p. 385, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-11 - Compliance with orders; powers in case of noncompliance

4:6-11. Compliance with orders; powers in case of noncompliance
The person upon whom the notice and order, referred to in sections 4:6-7 to 4:6-10 of this title, is served shall comply with it in all respects within the time limited in such notice and order. Upon failure to comply with the notice or order to treat or transfer bees, the department may give such assistance or take such summary action as, in its judgment, is necessary to prevent the spread of disease, as defined in section 4:6-1 of this title even though such action involves, in extreme cases, the immediate destruction of bees and equipment without compensation.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-12 - Keeping of infested bees; penalty

4:6-12. Keeping of infested bees; penalty
No person shall have or keep in his possession or in an apiary, a colony of bees infested by the diseases known as American foulbrood or European foulbrood or by any other disease which is contagious or infectious in its nature and injurious to honey bees in their egg, larvae, pupal or adult stages, and a person who shall have or keep in his possession any colony of bees so infested, after notice of the existence of the disease given as provided in sections 4:6-7 to 4:6-9 of this Title, shall be liable to a penalty of $200.00.
Amended by L.1977, c. 159, s. 2, eff. July 14, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-13 - Sale or removal of infested bees or materials; penalty

4:6-13. Sale or removal of infested bees or materials; penalty
No owner or other person having diseased bees or their larvae, or infested hives, combs or other appliances or utensils for keeping bees, shall expose, sell, barter or give away or permit the removal thereof until after treatment has been administered as prescribed by the department, and such bees, larvae, hives, combs or other appliances or utensils shall not be exposed, sold, bartered or given away after treatment until they are declared safe and written permission is given by the department.
A person who shall violate this section shall be liable to a penalty of $200.00.
Amended by L.1977, c. 159, s. 3, eff. July 14, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 4 - Agriculture and Domestic Animals › Section 4:6-14 - Shipments of queen bees without certificate attached; penalty

4:6-14. Shipments of queen bees without certificate attached; penalty
No package or parcel containing queen bees shall be shipped or delivered from an apiary where queen bees are raised for sale without having attached to it a certificate from the department, giving the date of the last inspection, and containing the statement that the apiary in which the bees were reared was, at the time of the inspection, free from disease as defined in section 4:6-1 of this Title.
A person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of $200.00.
Amended by L.1977, c. 159, s. 4, eff. July 14, 1977.