New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 23A - ANIMAL FACILITY OPERATION; ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY INVESTIGATOR CERTIFICATION; PILOT SPAYING AND NEUTERING CLINIC FEES; AND RABIES INOCULATION › Subchapter 1 - SANITARY OPERATION OF KENNELS, PET SHOPS, SHELTERS AND POUNDS › Section 8:23A-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adult dog or cat" means a dog or cat over the age of seven months
				  or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
"Animal" means any animal subject to rabies or other diseases of
				  dogs.
"Boarding" is the act of providing food and shelter to dogs,
				  regardless of whether it involves an overnight stay, for a fee, at the request of
				  the owner or caretaker.
"Department" means the Department of Health and Senior
				  Services.
"Disinfection" is any process, chemical or physical, by means of
				  which pathogenic agents or disease producing microbes are destroyed, but not
				  necessarily resistant bacterial spores.
"Euthanasia" is the act of inducing painless death.
"Facility" means any kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound subject to
				  4:19-15.1 et seq. and this
				  chapter.
"Impervious surface" means a surface that does not permit the
				  absorption of fluids. Such surfaces are those that can be thoroughly and repeatedly
				  cleaned and disinfected, which will not retain odors, and from which fluids bead up
				  and run off or can be removed without being absorbed into the surface
				  material.
"Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program" or "IZDP" means the
				  Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program of the Communicable Disease Service of the
				  Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health in the Public Health
				  Protection and Emergency Preparedness Branch of the Department of Health and Senior
				  Services. The mailing address of the IZDP is PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ
				  08625-0369.
"Kennel" means any establishment wherein or whereupon the business
				  of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a pet
				  shop.
"Owner" when applied to the proprietorship of a dog means every
				  person having a right of property in that dog and every person who has that dog in
				  his or her keeping, and when applied to the proprietorship of any other animal,
				  including, but not limited to, a cat, means every person having a right of property
				  in that animal and every person who has that animal in his or her keeping.
"Pet shop" means any place of business which is not part of a
				  kennel, wherein animals, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, birds, fish,
				  reptiles, rabbits, hamsters or gerbils, are kept or displayed chiefly for the
				  purpose of sale to individuals for personal appreciation and companionship rather
				  than for business or research purposes.
"Potable water" means water suitable for human consumption.
"Pound" means any establishment of the confinement of dogs or
				  other animals seized either under the provisions of
				  4:19-15.1 6 or otherwise.
"Primary enclosure" means any structure used to restrict an animal
				  or animals to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, run, cage or
				  compartment.
"Shelter" means any establishment where dogs or other animals are
				  received, housed and distributed.