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• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-1. Department constituted a principal department in executive branch
  The Department of Agriculture, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "department," created and established by the act entitled "An act ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-2. Personnel of department
  The department shall consist of: a. A State Board of Agriculture, which shall be the head of the department; b. A Secretary of Agriculture, who ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-3. Offices and equipment
  The state house commission shall provide the department with suitable and convenient offices, furniture and equipment, sufficient to accommodate it and to allow its work ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-4. Membership; terms; expenses
  The State Board of Agriculture, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the "board," shall consist of eight citizens of this State. Two ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-4.1. Removal; members; secretary
  Any member of the State Board of Agriculture may be removed from office by the Governor, for cause, upon notice and opportunity to be heard. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-5. Annual convention to elect members
  At a convention to be held once in each year in the State of New Jersey, delegates chosen as provided in section 4:1-6 ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-6 Agricultural convention delegates.
  4:1-6. Each county board of agriculture shall be entitled to be represented in the annual convention by two delegates. Each of the following ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-7. Vacancies
  In the manner provided in section 4:1-5 of this Title, any vacancy in the membership of the board arising from death or resignation, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-8. Certification to governor of names of members elect
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall certify the names of those elected by the convention to the Governor for appointment, with the advice and consent of ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-9. President and vice-president of board
  As soon as may be, following the qualification of members in each year, the board shall organize by electing one of its members as president ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-10. Secretary and assistant secretary of board
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall serve as secretary of the Board. The assistant secretary of the board, in the absence of the secretary, shall exercise ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-11. Rules for control of department
  The board may establish rules and regulations for its own proceedings and for the government and control of the department, the officers and employees therein ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-11.1 Rules, regulations
  3. The board may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) such ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-12. Assignment of functions and duties; supervision
  The board shall assign to the various divisions, bureaus, officers and employees, their proper functions and duties and either directly, or through the secretary, supervise ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-13. Appointment and compensation of officers and employees
  The board, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint the secretary of agriculture, and in conjunction with the secretary may appoint an assistant secretary ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-14. Annual report by board to legislature
  The secretary shall lay before the board the reports of the directors of divisions which are required by section 4:1-19 of this Title ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-15. Appointment; functions in general
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall be appointed by the board, with the approval of the Governor. He shall receive such salary as shall be provided ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-16. Powers and duties respecting employees and as secretary of board
  The secretary shall appoint the necessary clerks and stenographers and other employees of the department, whose appointment or employment has not been vested in the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-17. Creation and functions
  For the economic and efficient execution and performance of its powers and duties the board may create a Division of Animal Health, a Division of ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-18. Authority and duties of directors of divisions
  The director of each division shall be its executive and administrative head, subject to the supervision and control of the secretary of agriculture, and the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-19. Annual reports by chiefs to secretary
  The director of each division shall, on or before October first in each year, present to the secretary a report of the work of the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-20. Ascertainment and dissemination of information
  The department may investigate, ascertain and publish information and statistics relating to the promotion of agriculture and the advancement of agricultural interests in the various ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-20.1. Reciprocal agreements with other states covering shipments of nursery stock
  The Department of Agriculture through the Secretary of Agriculture shall have power to make reciprocal agreements with the responsible officials of other States under which ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21. Arrangement of farmers' meetings, children's contests, and premiums for products
  The department shall: a. Promote and induce meetings of farmers and agriculturists and arrange for the discussion and presentation before such meetings of such topics ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.1. Food production program; award to schools whose students participate
  Any high school or private institution of learning, twenty-five per centum (25%) or more of whose students fourteen years of age or over have ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.2. Rules and regulations
  The State Board of Agriculture may make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.1943, c. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.3. Appropriation
  The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized to use two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) of its appropriation for the fiscal year beginning July first, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.4. Effective date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three. L.1943, c. 214, p. 572, s. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.5. Powers of department; quarantines
  The department may institute and enforce such measures as it may deem necessary to control infectious or contagious diseases of live stock and poultry, diseases ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.6. Cooperation with other agencies
  The department may co-operate with the United States Department of Agriculture, with agricultural enforcement agencies of other States, with State and local government agencies ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.7. Rules and regulations regarding seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod plugs, and grass stolons
  The State Board of Agriculture is authorized to establish rules and regulations for the inspection, grading and certification of agricultural seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.8. Inspection, grading and certification of seeds and tubers
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall have the authority to provide for the inspection, grading and certification of the same at the request of the grower. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.9. Fees for inspection, grading and certification
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall fix and collect fees for such inspection, grading and certification and pay the same into the State treasury. L.1952, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.10. Approval of firms desiring to cooperate with State Board
  Every person, firm, association or corporation desiring to cooperate with the State Board of Agriculture in certifying agricultural seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod plugs, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.11. Offering and exposing seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod plugs, and grass stolons for sale
  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to offer for sale in New Jersey, orally, or in writing, or to represent ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.12. Debts incurred by, damage inflicted or contracts broken by cooperating firms
  The Department of Agriculture shall not be financially responsible for debts incurred by, damage inflicted by, or contracts broken by co-operating organizations, persons, firms, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.13. Violations
  Any person, firm, association, or corporation, or any officer, agent, servant, or employee thereof, violating any of the provisions of this act shall, for each ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.14. Withholding certification
  The Secretary of Agriculture may withhold certification for a period not exceeding 2 years from any grower of agricultural seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.15. Reduction of population of certain species of blackbirds
  The Department of Agriculture shall institute, provide for and enforce such measures as it shall deem necessary to reduce the population of starlings, red-winged ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-21.16. Co-operation with state and federal agencies
  The department may co-operate with other State and Federal agencies to effectuate the purposes of this act. L.1965, c. 191, s. 2. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-22. Acceptance and control of donations or bequests
  The department may take, hold in trust and exercise control over donations or bequests made to it for the promotion of scientific education or the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-22.1. Federal grants
  Subject to approval by the State Board of Agriculture, and in cases where State funds are required, within the limits of State appropriations made therefor, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-22.2. Grants, awards for agricultural promotion
  2. The department may, within the limits of monies appropriated for such purposes, make grants, awards, loans, distributions and incentives to any person, including any ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-23. Courts authorized to grant writs and orders
  4:1-23. The Superior Court and municipal courts, within their respective territorial jurisdictions, may grant such writs and orders as may be appropriate, including ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-24. Division of dairy industry established; director
  There is hereby established in the Department of Agriculture a Division of Dairy Industry. The executive and administrative head of the division shall be a ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-25. Powers and duties of director of milk control transferred
  Except as otherwise provided herein the functions, powers, duties, records and property of the present director of milk control are hereby transferred to and vested ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-26. Personnel; compensation; duties
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide the Office of Milk Industry with such clerical, technical and other personnel as he shall deem necessary, after consultation ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-27. Transfer of employees from Milk Control Board
  Such employees of the Milk Control Board, except as otherwise provided in this act, as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine are needed for the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-28. Civil service, pension and retirement rights not affected
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any right or protection provided him by Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-29. Milk Control Board and existing office of director of milk control abolished
  The Milk Control Board and the existing office of director of milk control are hereby abolished. The terms of office of the present members of ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-30. Appropriations, records and property transferred
  All appropriations available and to become available to the Milk Control Board and to the existing office of director of milk control abolished by this ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-31. Orders, rules and regulations
  The orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by the director of milk control, in effect on the effective date hereof, shall continue with ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-32. "Director of Milk Control" or "Director of the Office of Milk Industry" in laws, contracts or documents
  Whenever the term "Director of Milk Control" or "Director of the Office of Milk Industry" occurs or any reference is made ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-33. Pending actions or proceedings; orders or recommendations
  This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the director of milk control, and pending on the effective ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-34. Appeal
  Any person, applicant or licensee aggrieved by any act, proceeding, rule, order, regulation, decision or determination of the director of the Office of Milk Industry ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-35. Stay of rule or order
  The filing of an appeal from a rule or order of the director fixing or refixing any price, shall, unless the court otherwise orders, act ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-36. Record on appeal
  Within five days after service of the notice of appeal the director of the Office of Milk Industry shall, in accordance with rules of the ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-37. Additional evidence on appeal; modification of decision by director
  Application may be made by any party to the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, in accordance with its rules, for leave to present additional ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-38. Conduct of appeal; disposition on appeal
  The appeal shall be conducted by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, without a jury, in accordance with its rules and shall be confined ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-39. Repeal
  All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed. L. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-40. Short title
  This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "Department of Agriculture Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 447, p. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-41. Effective date
  This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-42. Establishment; appointment of State Chemist; employees
  There is hereby established in the Department of Agriculture the office of State Chemist. The State Chemist shall be appointed by the State Board of ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-43. Powers and duties
  The functions, powers and duties of the chemist of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station prescribed by chapters 4 and 9 of the Revised Statutes ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-43.1. Transfer and civil service status of employees of chemist and seed analyst of New Jersey agricultural experiment station
  Upon the establishment July 1, 1966 in the Department of Agriculture of the offices of State Chemist and State Seed Analyst, in accordance with P. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-44. Establishment; appointment of State Seed Analyst; employees
  There is hereby established in the Department of Agriculture the office of State Seed Analyst. The State Seed Analyst shall be appointed by the State ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-45. Powers and duties
  The functions, powers and duties of the seed analyst of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station prescribed by chapter 125 of the laws of 1961 ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-46. Legislative findings
  The Legislature finds that agriculture continues to be one of the leading industries of the State with annual gross sales of nearly $300,000,000. ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1-47. Coordinator of agricultural development; appointment; powers and duties; term of office; compensation
  The Secretary of Agriculture with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture shall appoint a coordinator of agricultural development for the department who shall ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1A-1. Rural advisory council; creation; membership
  There is hereby created in the Department of Agriculture a rural advisory council of 12 members, consisting of the following, each of whom shall be ...
• New Jersey Agriculture And Domestic Animals Laws Section 4:1A-2. Reimbursement for expenses
  All members of the council shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses in attending the meetings of the council and ...

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