New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 4 - Agriculture And Domestic Animals

• 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 to establish...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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 members...
• 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...
• 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 of...
• 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 organizations...
• 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, shall...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 rules and regulations as may be necessary to...
• Section 4:1-11.2 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The State Board of Agriculture shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to provide for...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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 to...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 4:1-20.2 - Information Published On Department Of Agriculture Website.
  1. a.The Department of Agriculture shall publish on its Internet website the location and contact information for every winery licensed in New Jersey. The...
• Section 4:1-20.3 - Internet Page For "New Jersey Gleaning Week" And "Farmers Against Hunger Day."
  1.The Department of Agriculture shall publish on its Internet website, and update as appropriate, a page for "New Jersey Gleaning Week," established by J.R.11...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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, one...
• 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. 4.
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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.
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 search...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 thereto, in any...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 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. 1782, s.
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 $300,000,000.00 and...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 4:1a-3 - Organization Of Council; Chairman
  The council shall organize as soon as possible after the appointment of its members. The council shall select from its membership annually a chairman...
• Section 4:1a-4 - Study And Recommendations
  It shall be the duty of the council to study and make recommendations concerning the social and economic conditions in rural areas, including those...
• Section 4:1a-5 - Access To Information, Data, And Findings Applicable To Rural Conditions
  The council shall have access to such information, data, and findings of State, county and local agencies as apply to rural conditions. L.1959, c....
• Section 4:1a-6 - Equipment And Staff
  It shall be the responsibility of the Department of Agriculture to furnish such equipment and staff as is necessary to implement the work of...
• Section 4:1a-7 - Annual Report
  The council shall submit a report annually to the Governor and to the Legislature. L.1959, c. 22, p. 99, s. 7.
• Section 4:1b-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Agricultural Preserve Demonstration Program Act." L.1976, c. 50, s. 1, eff. July 22,
• Section 4:1b-2 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: a. That the preservation of agricultural open space and the retention of agricultural activities would serve the best...
• Section 4:1b-3 - Additional Legislative Findings
  The Legislature further finds and declares that the State preservation of agricultural open space through the purchase of development easements to prime agricultural lands...
• Section 4:1b-4 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Agricultural preserve" means a significant mass of reasonably contiguous prime agricultural lands created through the State purchase of...
• Section 4:1b-5 - Agricultural Preserve Demonstration Program; Establishment; Purpose
  There is hereby established the Agricultural Preserve Demonstration Program. The purpose of this program shall be the creation of an agricultural preserve, which shall...
• Section 4:1b-6 - Administration; Operational Responsibility
  The program shall be administered by the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture. The Division of Rural Resources of the Department...
• Section 4:1b-7 - Conduct On Voluntary Basis; Prohibition Of Eminent Domain
  The program shall be conducted on a voluntary basis for all landowners in the program area; the provisions of any law to the contrary...
• Section 4:1b-8 - Implementation Of Program
  The program shall be implemented by the departments in the following manner: a. An intensive informational and educational effort will be undertaken to provide...
• Section 4:1b-9 - Steering Committee
  a. There is hereby established a Steering Committee on the Agricultural Preserve Demonstration Program. Such steering committee shall be a local advisory body composed...
• Section 4:1b-10 - Joint Legislative Oversight Committee
  The Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Environment and the Senate Committee on Agriculture are hereby designated as the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee for the...
• Section 4:1b-11 - Statement Of Development Easement; Attachment To And Recordation With Deed
  Following the purchase by the State of any development easement to prime agricultural land as provided by this act, the owner of such lands...
• Section 4:1b-12 - Actions To Enforce Development Easements
  The Department of Environmental Protection is hereby empowered to institute, in the name of the State, any proceeding intended to enforce the conditions or...
• Section 4:1b-13 - Conveyance Of Development Easement; Conditions
  No development easement purchased by the State pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be sold, given, transferred or otherwise conveyed in any...
• Section 4:1b-14 - Rules And Regulations
  a. The departments shall have the power, in accordance with the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure Act" (C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) to adopt, amend...
• Section 4:1b-15 - Severability
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such...
• Section 4:1c-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Right to Farm Act." L.1983, c. 31, s. 1, eff. Jan. 26, 1983.
• Section 4:1c-2 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The retention of agricultural activities would serve the best interest of all citizens of this State by...
• Section 4:1c-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "Board" or "county board" means a county agriculture development board established pursuant to section 7 of P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-14)....
• Section 4:1c-3.1 - Certain Beekeeping Operations Protected By "Right To Farm Act."
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of P.L.1983, c.31 (C.4:1C-3), or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, a farm management...
• Section 4:1c-4 - State Agriculture Development Committee; Establishment; Membership; Terms; Vacancies; Compensation; Meetings; Minutes; Staff
  a. In order that the State's regulatory action with respect to agricultural activities may be undertaken with a more complete understanding of the needs...
• Section 4:1c-5 - Powers Of Committee
  The committee may: a. Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; b. Adopt and use a seal...
• Section 4:1c-6 - Duties Of Committee
  The committee shall: a. Consider any matter relating to the improvement of farm management practices; b. Review and evaluate the proposed rules, regulations and...
• Section 4:1c-7 - Additional Duties Of Committee
  The committee shall: a. Establish guidelines and adopt criteria for identification of agricultural lands suitable for inclusion in agricultural development areas and farmland preservation...
• Section 4:1c-8 - Use Of Appropriations
  The secretary shall use the sum of money appropriated by section 31 of this act, and any other sums as may be appropriated from...
• Section 4:1c-9 - Commercial Farm Owners, Operators; Permissible Activities.
  6.Notwithstanding the provisions of any municipal or county ordinance, resolution, or regulation to the contrary, the owner or operator of a commercial farm, located...
• Section 4:1c-9.1 - Rules, Regulations Adopted By State Agriculture Development Committee
  5. a. The State Agriculture Development Committee, in consultation with the Department of Labor, shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 4:1c-9.2 - Committee To Develop Rules, Regulations; Bpu To Provide Technical Assistance.
  3. a. The committee shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.): (1)such rules and regulations as may be...
• Section 4:1c-9.3 - Rules, Regulations.
  5. a. The committee shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be...
• Section 4:1c-10 - Commercial Agricultural Operation Not A Nuisance, Compliance With Practices.
  7.In all relevant actions filed subsequent to the effective date of P.L.1998, c.48 (C.4:1C-10.1 et al.), there shall exist an irrebuttable presumption that no...
• Section 4:1c-10.1 - Filing Of Complaint; Process.
  5. a. Any person aggrieved by the operation of a commercial farm shall file a complaint with the applicable county agriculture development board or...
• Section 4:1c-10.2 - Appeal Of Decision.
  6.Any person aggrieved by any decision of a county board regarding specific agricultural management practices or conflict resolution, may appeal the decision to the...
• Section 4:1c-10.3 - New Rule Adoption Process.
  7. a. In proposing a rule for adoption, the agency involved shall issue an agriculture industry impact statement setting forth the nature and extent...
• Section 4:1c-10.4 - Rules, Regulations, Standards.
  8. a. The State Agriculture Development Committee shall adopt, in consultation with the Attorney General and pursuant to the provisions of the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 4:1c-11 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Agriculture Retention and Development Act." L.1983, c. 32, s. 1, eff. Jan. 26,...
• Section 4:1c-12 - Legislative Findings And Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The strengthening of the agricultural industry and the preservation of farmland are important to the present and...
• Section 4:1c-13 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Agricultural development areas" means areas identified by a county agricultural development board pursuant to the provisions of section...
• Section 4:1c-14 - County Boards
  7. a. The governing body of any county may, by resolution duly adopted, establish a public body under the name and style of "The...
• Section 4:1c-15 - Duties
  Every board shall: a. Develop and adopt, after public hearings, agricultural retention and development programs, which shall have as their principal purpose the long-term...
• Section 4:1c-16 - Powers
  Every board may: a. Develop an educational and informational program concerning farmland preservation techniques and recommended agricultural management practices to advise and assist municipalities,...
• Section 4:1c-17 - Subregional Agricultural Retention Board; Membership; Dissolution
  a. If any board of chosen freeholders has not created a board within 1 year of the effective date of this act, the governing...
• Section 4:1c-18 - Agricultural Development Area; Recommendation And Approval
  The board may, after public hearing, identify and recommend an area as an agricultural development area, which recommendation shall be forwarded to the county...
• Section 4:1c-19 - Land Acquisition Or Construction In Agriculture Development Area; Notice Of Intent; Review; Hearing
  a. Any public body or public utility which intends to exercise the power of eminent domain, pursuant to the provisions of the "Eminent Domain...
• Section 4:1c-20 - Petition For Farmland Preservation Program; Approval; Agreement Between Board And Landowner
  a. Any one or more owners of land which qualifies for differential property tax assessment pursuant to the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L....
• Section 4:1c-21 - Municipally Approved Program
  a. Any one or more owners of land which qualifies for differential property tax assessment pursuant to the "Farmland Assessment Act of 1964," P.L.1964,...
• Section 4:1c-22 - Documentation Of Municipally Approved Program
  The creation of a municipally approved program shall be documented in the following manner: a. The petition in its final form shall be filed...
• Section 4:1c-23 - Zoning Of Land In Program
  Notwithstanding the provisions of P.L. 1975, c. 291 (C. 40:55D-1 et seq.) or any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, no municipality...
• Section 4:1c-24 - Development Easement, Soil, Water Conservation Project; Application By Landowners In Farmland Preservation Program
  a. (1) Landowners within a municipally approved program or other farmland preservation program shall enter into an agreement with the board, and the municipal...
• Section 4:1c-25 - Public Body May Not Exercise Right Of Eminent Domain; Begin Construction
  The provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, no public body shall exercise the power of eminent domain for the acquisition of land...
• Section 4:1c-26 - Filing Of Complaint Against Agricultural Operation
  a. In all relevant actions filed subsequent to the effective date of P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-11 et al.), there shall exist an irrebuttable presumption that...
• Section 4:1c-27 - Agricultural Activities Exempt From Emergency Restrictions
  The provisions of any law, rule, regulation or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, agricultural activities on land in a municipally approved program, or on...
• Section 4:1c-28 - Acceptable Construction Standard For Farm Structure
  a. The provisions of any law, rule, regulation or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, any criteria developed by a land grant college or a...
• Section 4:1c-29 - Length Of Program; Termination; Inclusion Of Additional Landowners
  a. The municipally approved program shall remain in effect for a minimum of 8 years, provided that a review of the practicability and feasibility...
• Section 4:1c-30 - Withdrawal Of Land; Taxation
  a. Withdrawal of land from the municipally approved program or other farmland preservation program prior to its termination date may occur in the case...
• Section 4:1c-31 - Development Easement Purchases.
  24. a. Any landowner applying to the board to sell a development easement pursuant to section 17 of P.L.1983, c.32 (C.4:1C-24) shall offer to...
• Section 4:1c-31.1 - Fee Simple Absolute Purchases.
  5. a. Any landowner of farmland within an agricultural development area certified by the committee may apply to the committee to sell the fee...
• Section 4:1c-31.2 - Rules, Regulations
  The committee shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this amendatory and supplementary act according to the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 4:1c-32 - Conveyance Of Easement Following Purchase; Conditions, Restrictions; Payment
  25. a. No development easement purchased pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be sold, given, transferred or otherwise conveyed in any manner...
• Section 4:1c-32.1 - Special Permit To Allow Rural Microenterprise Activity On Land; Terms Defined.
  1. a. Any person who owns qualifying land may apply for a special permit pursuant to this section to allow a rural microenterprise activity...
• Section 4:1c-32.2 - Special Permit To Allow A Personal Wireless Service Facility On Certain Land; Conditions; Definitions.
  2. a. Any person who owns land on which a development easement was conveyed to, or retained by, the committee, a board, or a...
• Section 4:1c-32.3 - Application Fee For Special Permit; Suspension, Revocation; Report.
  3. a. The application fee for a special permit authorized pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2005, c.314 (C.4:1C-32.1) shall be $250. The application fee...
• Section 4:1c-32.4 - Certain Generation Facilities, Structures, Equipment Permitted On Preserved Farmland.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a person who owns preserved farmland may construct, install, and operate biomass, solar,...
• Section 4:1c-32.5 - Approval Required.
  5. a. No person may construct, install, or operate biomass energy generation facilities, structures, or equipment on any land that is valued, assessed and...
• Section 4:1c-32.6 - Report To Governor, Legislature, Committees.
  6.Every two years, the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the State Agriculture Development Committee and the Department of the Treasury, shall prepare a...
• Section 4:1c-32.7 - Definitions Relative To Special Occasion Events Conducted At Certain Wineries.
  1.As used in P.L.2014, c.16 (C.4:1C-32.7 et seq.): "Preserved farmland" means land on which a development easement was conveyed to, or retained by, the...
• Section 4:1c-32.8 - Pilot Program Permitting Special Occasion Events.
  2. a. The State Agriculture Development Committee shall establish a pilot program permitting special occasion events to be conducted on preserved farmland at a...
• Section 4:1c-32.9 - Audit To Determine Compliance; Certification Of Annual Gross Income.
  3. a. (1) A county agriculture development board or the State Agriculture Development Committee may order, and specify the scope of, an audit of...
• Section 4:1c-32.10 - Violations, Penalties.
  4. a. An owner or operator of a winery who violates P.L.2014, c.16 (C.4:1C-32.7 et seq.) shall be liable to a civil penalty of...
• Section 4:1c-32.11 - Rules, Regulations.
  5. a. The committee shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be...
• Section 4:1c-33 - Enforcement Of Conditions Or Restrictions
  The committee or the board is authorized to institute, in the name of the State, any proceedings intended to enforce the conditions or restrictions...
• Section 4:1c-34 - Persons Acquiring Developmental Easement; Sale To Board
  Any person or organization acquiring a development easement, by purchase, gift or otherwise, may apply to sell that development easement to the board, provided...
• Section 4:1c-35 - Appraisal Of Value Of Donation
  If a person wishes to donate all or a portion of the value of the development easement to the board, the value of the...
• Section 4:1c-36 - Pinelands Area, Highlands Region, Farmland Preservation.
  29.Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the creation of a municipally approved program or other farmland preservation program, the purchase of development...
• Section 4:1c-37 - Joint Legislative Oversight Committee; Duties
  The Senate Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee and the Assembly Agriculture and Environment Committee are designated as the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agricultural...
• Section 4:1c-37.1 - Acquisition Of Property For Farmland Preservation Purposes.
  2.A county, county agriculture development board, or municipality may acquire real property in fee simple for farmland preservation purposes, which property may be resold...
• Section 4:1c-38 - Acquisition Of Land In Name Of State
  In addition to those powers and duties provided for by section 5 of P.L.1983, c.31 (C.4:1C-6) and by sections 5 and 6 of P.L.1983,...
• Section 4:1c-39 - Sale Of Fee Simple Absolute Interest In Land; Notice
  a. A landowner who wishes to sell a fee simple absolute interest in land that becomes enrolled after the effective date of P.L.1989, c.28...
• Section 4:1c-40 - Certificate Acknowledging Landowner Compliance
  A certificate executed and acknowledged by the committee stating that the provisions of section 2 of P.L.1989, c.28 (C.4:1C-39) have been met by the...
• Section 4:1c-41 - Priority
  The committee shall give priority to the purchase of land in those cases in which the committee determines that sale of the land to...
• Section 4:1c-42 - Acquired Land Held In Name Of State; Sale, Conditions
  Any land acquired by the committee pursuant to the terms of P.L.1989, c.28 (C.4:1C-38 et al.) shall be held of record in the name...
• Section 4:1c-43 - Appropriation
  Such moneys as are reasonable and necessary to carry out the intent of this act shall be appropriated from the "Farmland Preservation Fund" established...
• Section 4:1c-43.1 - Farmland Preservation Planning Incentive Grant Program.
  1. a. There is established in the State Agriculture Development Committee a farmland preservation planning incentive grant program, the purpose of which shall be...
• Section 4:1c-44 - Findings, Declaration
  The Legislature finds that development in the State has reduced the number of acres in agricultural use by 90,000 acres during the last two...
• Section 4:1c-45 - Inventory Of Land Suitable For Agricultural Production
  Within one year of the effective date of this act, the Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Department of the Treasury and other...
• Section 4:1c-46 - Priority
  Land deemed suitable for agricultural production shall be offered for agricultural production in the following priority: a. For use by the Department of Corrections...
• Section 4:1c-47 - Rules, Regulations
  The Department of Agriculture shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt rules and regulations establishing a procedure for...
• Section 4:1c-48 - Competitive Bid; Covenant
  Lands deemed suitable for agricultural production pursuant to this act and deemed by the State House Commission to be surplus to the needs of...
• Section 4:1c-49 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "State Transfer of Development Rights Bank Act." L.1993,c.339,s.1.
• Section 4:1c-50 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: "Board" means the board of directors of the State Transfer of Development Rights Bank established pursuant to section 3...
• Section 4:1c-51 - State Transfer Of Development Rights Bank Established
  3. a. There is established in the Executive Branch of the State Government a public body corporate and politic, with corporate succession, to be...
• Section 4:1c-52 - Powers Of Board.
  4.The board shall have the following powers: a.To purchase, or to provide matching funds for the purchase of 80% of, the value of development...
• Section 4:1c-53 - Establishment, Maintenance Of Development Potential Transfer Registry
  5. a. The board shall establish and maintain a Development Potential Transfer Registry, which shall include: (1) The name and address of every person...
• Section 4:1c-54 - Sale, Exchange, Conveyance Of Development Potential
  6. a. The board may sell by negotiation or auction, exchange, or otherwise convey any development potential that is purchased or otherwise acquired pursuant...
• Section 4:1c-55 - Report To Governor, Legislature
  7. The board, three years after the effective date of this act, shall prepare and submit a report to the Governor and Legislature assessing...
• Section 4:2-15 - Fur Farming; Supervision And Control
  The Department of Agriculture shall supervise and control fur farming, including the breeding, raising, producing and marketing of fox, rabbit, mink, chinchilla, marten, fisher,...
• Section 4:2-16 - Llama Designated As Agricultural Livestock
  1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the llama, Lama glama, or any other species of the genus Lama capable of...
• Section 4:2-17 - Ostrich, Emu, Rhea Designated Agricultured Livestock.
  1.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the ostrich, emu, and rhea, shall be designated as agricultural livestock and shall be subject...
• Section 4:2a-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Nutria" shall mean any animal of the species Myocaster coypu. b. "Department" shall mean the Department of Agriculture....
• Section 4:2a-2 - Release Of, Or Allowing Nutria To Escape From Captivity Prohibited
  No person shall release, cause or permit to be released, or allow to escape from captivity any nutria within the State. L.1962, c. 126,...
• Section 4:2a-3 - Registration And Certificate Required To Raise And Breed Nutria; Fee; Form And Contents Of Application
  No person shall engage in raising or breeding nutria until he has registered with the department and received a certificate of such registration. A...
• Section 4:2a-4 - Rules And Regulations
  The department may adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and shall adopt rules and...
• Section 4:2a-5 - Inspection Of Premises; Revocation Of Certificate
  The secretary individually or through his duly authorized representatives may inspect at any time any premises upon which nutria are raised, bred, housed or...
• Section 4:2a-6 - Penalties; Enforcement Of Act
  6. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act, or the rules and regulations thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty...
• Section 4:2a-7 - Registration Of Present Breeders; Time
  Any person presently engaged in raising or breeding nutria shall have 90 days from the effective date of this act within which to register...
• Section 4:3-1 - Annual Educational Program And Exhibits
  For the purpose of encouraging the development of commercial poultry and egg production in this state along sound economic lines, the department of agriculture...
• Section 4:3-2 - Rules; Problems Near Populous Areas
  The department of agriculture shall establish rules and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this article. Pursuant to such rules the department...
• Section 4:3-11.10 - Applicability
  This act shall apply to the marketing of eggs to consumers, institutional consumers and retailers, and to other purchasers in accordance with grades established...
• Section 4:3-11.11 - Definitions
  As used in this act, unless the context clearly requires a different construction: (a) "Eggs" means eggs in the shell that are the product...
• Section 4:3-11.12 - Establishment Of Standards, Grades And Size-weight Classes; Rules And Regulations
  The State board shall, by rules and regulations, establish standards, grades, and size-weight classes, which may be modeled on the standards, grades or size-weight...
• Section 4:3-11.13 - Marking Containers; Signs And Devices; Term "Fresh Eggs" ; Fraudulent Or Misleading Representations; Letters And Numerals
  (a) The container in which any eggs are marketed in this State shall bear prominently on the outside portion thereof: (1) The grade of...
• Section 4:3-11.14 - Delivery Of Invoice To Retailer Or Institutional Consumer; Contents; Filing
  Any person marketing eggs to a retailer or institutional consumer shall furnish to such purchaser at the time of delivery of the eggs an...
• Section 4:3-11.15 - Temperature And Humidity For Keeping Eggs; Clean Packaging; Sanitary Regulations; Applicability Of Other Laws
  (a) Any person assembling, transporting, marketing, or processing eggs for marketing shall keep the eggs at a temperature not higher than 60 degrees Fahrenheit...
• Section 4:3-11.16 - Stop Sale Orders
  If, after inspection, the secretary determines that any eggs are being offered, displayed, stored, processed, or transported in violation of this act, the secretary...
• Section 4:3-11.17 - Confiscation Of Eggs
  8. Any eggs marketed in violation of any provision of this act may be confiscated by a summary proceeding instituted by the secretary. The...
• Section 4:3-11.18 - Complaint; Warrant
  Upon the filing of the verified complaint the court may issue a warrant directed to the sheriff or a constable of the county or...
• Section 4:3-11.19 - Confiscation And Disposal In Event Of Violation; Disposition Of Proceeds Of Sale
  If upon the hearing it shall appear that the marketing of the eggs was in violation of any of the provisions of this act,...
• Section 4:3-11.20 - Delivery Of Eggs To Owner For Sale Or Distribution In Compliance With Law
  In case the eggs seized are of such a character that they may be sold or distributed in compliance with this act, upon the...
• Section 4:3-11.21 - Inspection And Examination Of Eggs, Equipment, Facilities Or Records
  The secretary acting by any duly authorized officer, employee, or agent, may enter on or into any premises or any vehicle wherein eggs are...
• Section 4:3-11.22 - Rules And Regulations
  The State board in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act" (P.L.1968, c. 410, C. 52:14B-1 et seq.) may adopt and promulgate, from time to...
• Section 4:3-11.23 - Violations, Penalties; Enforcement
  14. Any person who violates any provision of this act, or the rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be liable to a penalty...
• Section 4:3-11.23a - Violations; Hearing; Penalty
  Upon receiving any information of a violation of any provision of P.L.1965, c. 94 (C. 4:3-11.10 et seq.) or of this act or of...
• Section 4:3-11.24 - Injunctive Relief
  The secretary may institute an action in the Superior Court for injunctive relief to prevent and restrain any violation of this act or of...
• Section 4:3-11.25 - Other Remedies
  The institution of proceedings for the application of any remedy available pursuant to this act, or the issuance of any order on account thereof,...
• Section 4:3-11.26 - Repeal
  Sections 4:3-3 to 4:3-11 of the Revised Statutes, inclusive, and "An act regulating the buying or receiving, and selling of shell eggs for human...
• Section 4:3-11.27 - Cooperation By Secretary With Other Agencies Or Associations
  The secretary may cooperate with and enter into agreements with agencies of this and other states, the Federal Government and private associations in order...
• Section 4:3-11.28 - Severability
  The provisions of this act are severable, if any provision, or application of any provision, of this act or the act of which this...
• Section 4:3-12 - Permit For Sale Of Baby Chicks
  Before any baby chicks are offered for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, except public sales conducted by farmers...
• Section 4:3-13 - Application For Permit; Contents; Fee; Discretion In Granting Or Denying Permit
  Any person who desires to offer baby chicks for sale at any auction or auction sale barn or community sale, shall apply for a...
• Section 4:3-14 - Labeling Of Crates, Coops, Etc.
  Before any such chicks are offered for sale, or sold, each box, crate, coop or other container shall be plainly labeled with appropriate statements...
• Section 4:3-15 - Statement To Secretary Of Agriculture By Person Who Conducted Sale
  Within three days after the sale shall have been held, the person who conducted the sale shall send a statement to the Secretary of...
• Section 4:3-16 - Definitions
  The term "baby chick" as used in this act means any domestic fowl under the age of six weeks. The term "person" included also...
• Section 4:3-17 - Violation Of Act Or Regulations As Misdemeanor
  Any person who violates any provision of this act, or the regulations made under this act for carrying out its provisions, or who fails...
• Section 4:3-18 - Penalties; Recovery; Jurisdiction
  7. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this act shall for the first offense be liable to a penalty not...
• Section 4:3-19 - Regulations
  The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make and promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act....
• Section 4:4-20.1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New Jersey Commercial Feed Law of 1970." L.1970, c. 338, s. 1, eff....
• Section 4:4-20.2 - Enforcing Official
  This act shall be administered by the Department of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey, hereinafter referred to as the "department." L.1970, c....
• Section 4:4-20.3 - Definitions Of Words And Terms
  As used in this act: a. "Person" means individual, partnership, corporation and association. b. "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, exchange, or barter,...
• Section 4:4-20.4 - Registration; Fee
  4. a. Every person engaged in the manufacture of commercial feed or customer formula feed to be distributed in this State shall on January...
• Section 4:4-20.5 - Labeling
  A commercial feed shall be labeled as follows: a. In case of a commercial feed, except a customer formula feed, it shall be accompanied...
• Section 4:4-20.6 - Misbranding
  A commercial feed shall be deemed to be misbranded: a. If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. b. If it is...
• Section 4:4-20.7 - Adulteration
  A commercial feed shall be deemed to be adulterated: a. (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render...
• Section 4:4-20.8 - Prohibited Acts
  The following acts are prohibited in the State of New Jersey: a. The manufacture or distribution of any commercial feed that is adulterated or...
• Section 4:4-20.9 - Inspection Fees And Reports
  9.Inspection fees and reports. a. An inspection fee at the rate of $0.30 per ton shall be paid on commercial feeds distributed in this...
• Section 4:4-20.10 - Rules And Regulations
  a. The State board is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations for commercial feeds and pet foods as are specifically authorized in this...
• Section 4:4-20.11 - Inspection, Sampling, And Analysis
  a. For the purpose of enforcement of this act, and in order to determine whether its provisions have been complied with, including whether or...
• Section 4:4-20.12 - Detained Commercial Feeds
  a. "Withdrawal from distribution" orders: When the State Chemist or his authorized agent has reasonable cause to believe any lot of commercial feed is...
• Section 4:4-20.13 - Penalties
  13. Penalties. a. Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder or who...
• Section 4:4-20.14 - Cooperation With Other Entities
  The secretary may cooperate with and enter into agreements with governmental agencies of this State, other states, agencies of the Federal Government, and private...
• Section 4:4-20.15 - Publication
  The State Chemist shall publish at least annually, in such forms as he may deem proper, information concerning the sales of commercial feeds, together...
• Section 4:4-20.16 - Constitutionality
  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act shall for any reason be judged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such...
• Section 4:4-21 - Attaching Tags On Feed Bags By Metal Fasteners
  A person who shall sell within this state feed for live stock in bags, to which bags there is attached a tag or tags...
• Section 4:4-22 - Pasteurization Before Delivery For Feeding Purposes
  Every owner, operator or manager of a cheese factory, creamery, skimming station or other place where milk is received and the by-products distributed, shall,...
• Section 4:4-23 - Penalty For Violation
  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 4:4-22 of this Title shall be liable to a penalty of not more...
• Section 4:5-1 - Declaring Epidemic; Quarantine; Serums; Other Preventive Measures
  The State Board of Agriculture may: a. Determine the existence of contagious and infectious diseases in animals or poultry and declare the same to...
• Section 4:5-2 - Diseases Not Specifically Designated
  All powers and duties conferred upon the board with reference to a specific contagious or infectious disease of animals or poultry, the board shall...
• Section 4:5-2.1 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Certain Fees For Animal Health Programs
  1. a. The State Board of Agriculture may adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations establishing...
• Section 4:5-2.2 - "Agriculture Fee Program Revolving Fund"
  2. a. There is hereby created in the Department of Agriculture a non-lapsing revolving fund to be known as the "Agriculture Fee Program Revolving...
• Section 4:5-3 - Penalty For Violating Orders Of Board
  A person who shall violate or fail to comply with an order of the board, or its constituted agent, made pursuant to sections 4:5-1...
• Section 4:5-4 - Notice To Department By Veterinarians And Others Of Existence Or Appearance Of Disease
  In case certain contagious or infectious diseases, which are designated by the Department of Agriculture as a particular and dangerous menace to the animal...
• Section 4:5-5 - Failure To Give Notice; Punishment
  Any veterinarian practicing in the State, or any owner of animals or premises containing animals with infectious disease or suspected of infectious disease as...
• Section 4:5-6 - Quarantine Of Infected Or Exposed Animals; Regulations
  Upon receiving information that an infectious or contagious disease exists or is suspected to exist in any herd or in any locality, the department...
• Section 4:5-7 - Inoculation Of Herd Exposed To Disease
  When any herd or portion thereof is exposed to any contagious or infectious disease, and the department deems the disease likely to spread to...
• Section 4:5-8 - Buying Or Selling Affected Or Exposed Animals A Misdemeanor
  A person who without a permit from the department shall knowingly buy or sell, or cause to be bought or sold, an animal which...
• Section 4:5-9 - Slaughter And Burial Of Infected Animals In Certain Cases
  Whenever in the judgment of the department it shall appear that the disease is not likely to yield to remedial treatment, or that the...
• Section 4:5-10 - Appraisement Of And Compensation For Animals Slaughtered
  When animals are slaughtered or otherwise disposed of as directed in section 4:5-9 of this Title, the value of the same may, at the...
• Section 4:5-11 - Disposal Of Dead Or Slaughtered Animals; Disposal For Food A Misdemeanor
  When, by reason of the locality of an infected animal or herd within a city, or by reason of frozen ground or extreme heat,...
• Section 4:5-12 - Post-mortem Examination Of Dead Or Slaughtered Animals
  If, between October first and May first of any year, a veterinarian who has been regularly graduated in veterinary medicine, desires to make a...
• Section 4:5-13 - Authority Of Department
  When a county, city, township or district is threatened with a contagious or infectious disease among animals, or poultry, to such an extent as...
• Section 4:5-14 - Posting And Publication Of Notice
  The department shall cause public notice of the quarantine and prohibition to be posted in five or more conspicuous places within the county, city,...
• Section 4:5-15 - Co-operation With Federal Bureau
  The department may co-operate with the bureau of animal industry of the United States in any measures deemed necessary to eradicate or prevent the...
• Section 4:5-16 - Transportation Of Animals Within, Into Or From Quarantined Area
  When a county, city, township, district, animal, herd of animals or poultry is quarantined pursuant to this article and public notice thereof is given...
• Section 4:5-17 - Penalty
  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 4:5-16 of this title shall for a first offense be liable to a...
• Section 4:5-18 - Terms Defined
  As used in this article: "Auction market" is an establishment regularly engaged in the sale by auction of live stock for dairy, breeding or...
• Section 4:5-19 - Tests At Instance Of Department Of Agriculture, Health Department Or Owner
  Whenever the Department of Agriculture deems it advisable, or when the Department of Health or the owner of dairy or breeding animals shall request...
• Section 4:5-20 - Expense Of Inspection And Tests
  If the owner of such animals shall agree to comply with and carry out the regulations of the Department of Agriculture relating to the...
• Section 4:5-21 - Quarantine And Slaughter Of Condemned Animals
  All cattle reacting to an official or authorized private tuberculin test or declared tuberculous as the result of an authorized physical examination or other...
• Section 4:5-22 - Time And Supervision Of Slaughter
  No indemnity shall be paid for reacting animals unless slaughtered within thirty days of date of appraisal and in accordance with section 4:5-21. Amended...
• Section 4:5-23 - Agreements Respecting Valuation Of Condemned Animals
  The veterinarian making an official tuberculin test, or any authorized agent of the department may make an agreement with the owner as to the...
• Section 4:5-24 - Appraisement Prior To Testing
  Immediately before commencing the test, if it is deemed advisable by the department, an appraisement may be made by the owner and an authorized...
• Section 4:5-25 - Appraisement Where No Agreement Reached
  In all cases where no agreement can be reached, there shall be appointed three competent and disinterested freeholders, one by the department, one by...
• Section 4:5-26 - Report Of Salvage Or Proceeds Of Slaughtered Animal
  The salvage is the net amount received from the sale of the animal or animals, and a report of such sale shall be made...
• Section 4:5-27 - Indemnity Receivable By Owner Of Slaughtered Animal
  For each bovine animal so killed to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, the owner shall receive the net proceeds of the sale of the...
• Section 4:5-28 - Indemnity, Conditions
  In order for animals imported into New Jersey to be eligible for appraisement and indemnity the following conditions must be satisfied: a. The animal...
• Section 4:5-29 - Payment Of Indemnity
  Upon presentation of the appraisement certificate to the State Comptroller, with the approval of the department indorsed thereon, the owner shall be entitled to...
• Section 4:5-30 - Priority Of Payment To Certain Owners
  In compensating the owners of cattle condemned and slaughtered under this article, the department or such board, bureau or other agency as may be...
• Section 4:5-31 - Marking Affected Animals
  Any bovine animal affected with advanced or generalized tuberculosis or with tuberculosis of the udder or which has reacted to the tuberculin test shall...
• Section 4:5-32 - Issuance Of Certificate For Healthy Cattle
  Whenever the department has made or caused to be made an examination of cattle within this state, and shall have ascertained them to be...
• Section 4:5-33 - Co-operation With Federal Bureau
  The department may co-operate with the bureau of animal industry of the United States in any general national system which may be adopted by...
• Section 4:5-34 - Obtaining Information As To Owners And Cattle In Given Area
  The department may obtain information regarding the number of cattle owners and the number of cattle in a county, township, municipality or other designated...
• Section 4:5-35 - Co-operation By Department With Local Organizations
  The department may co-operate with an organization or organizations or recommend the formation of a new organization in a county, township, municipality or other...
• Section 4:5-36 - Appropriations By Municipalities And Counties
  The county boards of freeholders in their respective counties and the governing bodies of townships, municipalities or other designated areas may make such appropriations...
• Section 4:5-37 - Testing At Instance Of Majority Of Owners In Area, Representing Three-fourths Of Cattle
  When a majority of the resident cattle owners, representing seventy-five per cent of the cattle in a county, township, municipality or other designated area...
• Section 4:5-38 - Testing And Quarantine At Instance Of Three-fourths Of Owners Within Area
  When seventy-five per cent of the cattle owners in a county, township, municipality or other designated area have filed petitions and agreements with the...
• Section 4:5-39 - Testing All Cattle Within Area At Instance Of Ninety Per Cent Of Owners
  When ninety per cent of the cattle owners of a county, township, municipality or other designated area have filed petitions and agreements with the...
• Section 4:5-40 - Assistance By Owners In Testing
  The owners of cattle which are to be officially tuberculin tested or retested shall, when requested to do so by a representative of the...
• Section 4:5-41 - Notice To Owner Of Special Quarantine
  Any veterinarian, agent or authorized representative of the department establishing a special quarantine shall transmit to the owner or representative a written notice advising...
• Section 4:5-42 - Bringing In Or Removing Cattle From Area Adopting Plan
  Whenever a county, township, municipality or other designated area has become enrolled in the area or any other plan of testing approved by the...
• Section 4:5-43 - Interference With Test Or Mark Of Identification
  No person shall treat any cattle with a material or substance for the purpose of interfering with a tuberculin test or with a reaction...
• Section 4:5-44 - Quarantine And Slaughter Of Reactors
  All cattle reacting to an official or authorized private tuberculin test or declared tuberculous as a result of an authorized physical examination or other...
• Section 4:5-45 - Disposal Of Reactors Or Removal Of Cattle From Quarantine
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, give away or otherwise dispose of or purchase any cattle that have been classed as reactors, declared...
• Section 4:5-46 - Transportation Of Cattle Classed As Reactors Or Suspicious
  No person shall deliver for transportation, receive for transportation, transport, drive on foot or otherwise remove from the premises where they are located to...
• Section 4:5-47 - Standard Of Tests; Report Of Tests
  All tuberculin tests, either official or private, shall be made according to the standards established, methods prescribed and in a manner acceptable to the...
• Section 4:5-48 - Rejection Of Tests Or Alleged Tests; Official Test
  The department may refuse to accept any tuberculin test or tests of native or imported cattle, either made or alleged to have been made,...
• Section 4:5-49 - Marking Cattle Passing Test Or Declared Suspicious
  All cattle passing or declared suspicious as the result of an official or private tuberculin test shall be marked for identification by an approved...
• Section 4:5-50 - Marking Condemned Cattle
  All cattle condemned as a result of an official or private tuberculin test shall be plainly and permanently marked for identification by a representative...
• Section 4:5-51 - Loss Of Rights By Owner On Failure To Comply With Article
  Whenever the department is satisfied that any owner has failed to comply with any provision of this article or any rule or regulation made...
• Section 4:5-52 - Certification Of Area As Modified Accredited Area
  When the percentage of tuberculous cattle within a county, township, municipality or other designated area enrolled in the area or any other plan of...
• Section 4:5-53 - Failure To Have Retest; Penalty
  Any owner of cattle enrolled in the area or any other plan of testing approved by the department who fails or refuses to have...
• Section 4:5-53.2 - Quarantine
  When the percentage of tuberculous cattle within a county, township, municipality or designated part thereof, exceeds one-half of one per centum ( 1/2 of...
• Section 4:5-53.3 - Disinfecting Quarters Of Infected Animals
  When positive reaction to any tuberculin test results, the department may provide special services to insure complete and continued disinfecting of the quarters in...
• Section 4:5-53.4 - Cattle Consigned To Auction Markets
  All cattle exceeding two hundred pounds in weight except those to be sold for dairy purposes delivered to any regularly established auction market shall...
• Section 4:5-54 - Tuberculin Test As Prerequisite To Importation; Exceptions; Health Certificate; Quarantine
  The importation of cattle into this State is hereby prohibited, except as provided in section 4:5-69 of this Title, unless such cattle have passed...
• Section 4:5-57 - Standard For All Tests
  All tuberculin tests shall be made according to the standards established by the department and executed by a veterinarian in good standing recognized by...
• Section 4:5-58 - Certificate Accompanying Cattle Imported And Display Thereof
  Cattle imported into this State, excepting those for immediate slaughter as specified in section 4:5-69 of this Title, shall be accompanied by the certificate...
• Section 4:5-59 - Contents Of Certificate
  The certificate of tuberculin test shall contain the following information: a. The number of cattle to be brought in and the lines and route...
• Section 4:5-61 - Tagging Or Marking Cattle Imported
  All cattle imported into this State, except those imported from areas designated by the board as provided in section 4:5-54 of this Title, and...
• Section 4:5-62 - Notice To Division Of Intention To Import Cattle
  A copy of the certificate shall be mailed to the Director of the Division of Animal Health on or before the date the cattle...
• Section 4:5-63 - Notice To Division Of Arrival And Location Of Cattle Imported
  Within 3 days after the arrival of the cattle at their destination within the State, the owner or custodian shall notify the Director of...
• Section 4:5-64 - Where Certificate Is Unsatisfactory
  The department may refuse to accept any certificate which, in its judgment, does not show a satisfactory test or which is not properly executed....
• Section 4:5-65 - Inspection Of Imported Cattle Prior To Removal From Destination; Retest
  Cattle coming into the State shall not be sold or removed from their destination in the State until they have been inspected by a...
• Section 4:5-67 - Importation Contrary To Article
  Where cattle are imported into the State contrary to this article the department shall immediately place a quarantine on the farm where the imported...
• Section 4:5-69 - Importation For Immediate Slaughter
  Cattle may be imported into this State for immediate slaughter when consigned by railroad to a public stockyard or abattoir having State, Federal or...
• Section 4:5-71 - Removal Of Cattle From Stockyard Or Auction Market
  All cattle removed from any public stockyard or regularly established auction market within this State, except cattle that qualify for dairy purposes as provided...
• Section 4:5-72 - Carriers To Require Certificates
  No common carrier shall transport cattle from any point outside of this State to any point within this State except for slaughter as prescribed...
• Section 4:5-73 - Recognition And Employment Of Veterinarians
  The department may recognize and employ as many official veterinarians as may be necessary to make all the tuberculin tests under its jurisdiction. All...
• Section 4:5-74 - Rules, Regulations And Orders; Quarantine Orders Preventing Entrance Of Diseased Cattle
  For the proper enforcement of the provisions of this article the state board of agriculture may make and enforce orders, rules and regulations for...
• Section 4:5-75 - Penalty For Violating Article Or Regulations
  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article or any order, rule or regulation made by the state board of...
• Section 4:5-75.1 - Notice To Department Of Disease
  Veterinarians, herd-owners, or other persons who gain knowledge of the existence or suspected existence of foot-and-mouth disease in the State shall immediately notify the...
• Section 4:5-75.2 - Concealing Or Transporting Diseased Animals
  The owner or manager of any animal or animals having, or suspected of having, or which have been exposed to, the disease called foot-and-mouth...
• Section 4:5-75.3 - Rules And Regulations
  The Department of Agriculture is authorized to make and enforce rules and regulations for the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, establish quarantines, and...
• Section 4:5-75.4 - Materials Exposed To Disease; Disinfection Or Disposal
  To prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, materials contaminated by or exposed to the disease shall be cleaned and disinfected, if practicable. In all...
• Section 4:5-75.5 - Appraisal Of Animals To Be Slaughtered; Indemnification Of Owner
  Animals affected by or exposed to foot-and-month disease or any other exotic or foreign disease, shall be appraised in accordance with the provisions of...
• Section 4:5-75.6 - Appraisal Of Value Of Materials Destroyed
  The value of materials ordered destroyed by the department because of contamination by or exposure to the disease shall be determined by agreement between...
• Section 4:5-75.7 - Appraisement Where Agreement Cannot Be Reached
  In all cases where an immediate agreement cannot be reached as to the value of animals or materials, the appraisement of such animals or...
• Section 4:5-75.8 - Reports Of Appraisals
  (a) Appraisals of animals shall be reported on forms furnished by the department. Reports of appraisals shall show the number of animals and either...
• Section 4:5-75.9 - Supervision Of Slaughtering And Disinfection
  The killing and the disposal of all animals slaughtered under this act, and the disinfection or destruction of materials as herein prescribed, shall be...
• Section 4:5-75.10 - Disposal Of Animals Killed
  Animals killed pursuant to this act shall be buried at least four feet beneath the surface of the ground, or shall be otherwise disposed...
• Section 4:5-75.11 - Stockyards, Cars And Vessels, Disinfection Of; Farms And Privately Owned Premises
  Stockyards, pens, cars, vessels, and other public premises and conveyances shall be cleaned and disinfected, whenever necessary for the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth...
• Section 4:5-75.12 - Indemnification Of Owner For Slaughtered Animals Or Destroyed Materials
  When an animal is killed or materials destroyed to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease or any other exotic or foreign disease, the State...
• Section 4:5-75.13 - Funds From Which Payments Are To Be Made
  The department is authorized to make payment for all necessary expenditures incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act from any funds appropriated...
• Section 4:5-75.14 - Compliance By Owner With Laws And Regulations As Prerequisite To Payment Of Claims By State
  The department shall not pay any claims arising out of the slaughter of animals affected by or exposed to the disease or the destruction...
• Section 4:5-75.15 - Penalty For Violations
  A person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act or with an order or regulation of...
• Section 4:5-93.21 - Definitions
  As used in this act: "Brucellosis," commonly called Bang's disease of live stock, is a disease that causes an economic loss in dairy herds...
• Section 4:5-93.22 - Rules And Regulations
  The board shall make rules and regulations respecting the testing, vaccination or other methods of control and eradication of brucellosis of live stock, the...
• Section 4:5-93.23 - Program And Agreements For Control And Eradication Of Disease
  The board shall establish a program for the control and eradication of brucellosis and may enter into agreements with owners of live stock within...
• Section 4:5-93.24 - Expense Of Inspection And Test
  If the owner complies with the provisions of the agreement and rules and regulations made by the board under sections two and three of...
• Section 4:5-93.25 - Certificate Showing Freedom From Disease
  Whenever official tests of any herd of live stock are made and such live stock is found to be free from brucellosis, a certificate...
• Section 4:5-93.26 - Failure Of Owner To Comply With Regulations Or Agreement
  Whenever the director of the division is satisfied that any owner has failed to comply with any of the provisions of any agreement, rule...
• Section 4:5-93.27 - Tests; Standards
  All tests, either official or private, shall be made according to the standards established and methods prescribed and by laboratories or individuals approved by...
• Section 4:5-93.28 - Report Of Tests
  A report of any test for brucellosis shall be made in writing to the director of the division within seven days immediately following the...
• Section 4:5-93.29 - Marking Tested Or Treated Stock
  All live stock subjected to an official or private test for brucellosis and all animals vaccinated or otherwise treated under a program under the...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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.
• Section 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...
• Section 4:5-93.47 - Effective Date Of Act
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. L.1946, c. 257, p. 900, s. 27.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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.
• Section 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...
• Section 4:5-95 - Quarantine Of Receiving Points Or Stations
  The department may, in its discretion, establish quarantines of receiving points or stations.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:5-103 - Disposition Of Dead Or Diseased Poultry
  The owner of such premises must provide for the proper disposition of all dead or diseased poultry under the supervision or direction of a...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:5-105 - Rules And Regulations
  The department may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this article.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:5-106.20 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect December 1, 1957. L.1957, c. 140, p. 538, s. 20.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:6-2 - Study Of Outbreaks
  The department shall study and investigate or cause to be studied and investigated, outbreaks of any bee disease and other conditions unfavorable to the...
• Section 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,...
• Section 4:6-4 - Investigation Of Apiaries
  The department shall investigate or cause to be investigated all apiaries or other places where bees are kept or raised in this state and...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:6-15 - Requirements Respecting Importation Of Bees Or Used Supplies; Penalty
  No colony or nucleus of bees or used apiary supplies coming from a state or country having apiary inspection service shall be accepted by...
• Section 4:6-16 - Information As To Number And Location Of Colonies; Penalty
  A person having one or more colonies of bees in his possession or management shall within 8 days after a written request from the...
• Section 4:6-17 - Penalty Enforcement; Hearing
  4:6-17. Any penalty imposed by this act shall be collected or enforced in a summary manner, without a jury, in any court of competent...
• Section 4:6-18 - Right Of Entry To Inspect; Interference With Officers
  For the purpose of making the investigations and inspections specified in this chapter and to enforce the provisions of the same, the officers and...
• Section 4:6-19 - Abandoned Apiaries; Written Notice; Steps To Protect Neighboring Apiaries
  When an apiary is deemed to be an abandoned apiary, written notice shall be given by certified mail to the owner or operator thereof,...
• Section 4:6-20 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Board of Agriculture shall have the power to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this act. L.1977,...
• Section 4:6-21 - Rules, Regulations Relative To Preservation Of Honey Bee Colonies.
  1.The Secretary of Agriculture in conjunction with the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, and in cooperation with the New Jersey Beekeepers Association, the New Jersey...
• Section 4:6-22 - Violations; Penalties, Use.
  2.Any person who intentionally destroys a man-made honey bee hive without the approval required pursuant to R.S.4:6-1 et seq. or section 1 of P.L.2007,...
• Section 4:6-23 - Penalty For Destruction Of Man-made Native Bee Hive; Definitions.
  1. a. Any person who intentionally destroys a man-made native bee hive shall be liable to a civil penalty of up to $500 for...
• Section 4:6-24 - Regulation Of Breeding, Keeping Of Honey Bees.
  2. a. The Department of Agriculture shall regulate the breeding and keeping of honey bees and any activities related thereto, including, but not limited...
• Section 4:7-1 - Determining Existence; Declaring Epidemics; Quarantine
  The state board of agriculture may: a. Determine the existence of dangerous plant diseases and of dangerously injurious insects and declare the same to...
• Section 4:7-2 - Diseases And Insects Not Designated In Statutes
  All powers and duties conferred upon the board with reference to any specific dangerous plant disease or to any specific dangerously injurious insect, the...
• Section 4:7-3 - Penalty For Violating Orders Of Board
  A person who shall violate or fail to comply with an order of the board, or its constituted agent, made pursuant to sections 4:7-1...
• Section 4:7-4 - "Department" Defined
  As used in this article the word "department" means the department of agriculture.
• Section 4:7-5 - Importation Or Distribution Of Infested Plants
  No person shall import into the state or distribute by sale, gift or otherwise within the state, any plant material, cuttings, seeds, bulbs, tubers,...
• Section 4:7-6 - Keeping Or Distribution Of Plant Material After Notice Of Infestation
  The keeping or maintenance, sale, gift or distribution of any plant material, cuttings, seeds, bulbs, tubers, trees, shrubs or vines after notice of such...
• Section 4:7-7 - Examination Of Nurseries And Other Establishments
  The department shall examine as often as may be necessary all nurseries and other establishments or places within the state where plants are grown...
• Section 4:7-8 - Treatment Or Destruction Of Diseased Or Suspected Plants; Prohibiting Shipment
  If upon examination as provided in section 4:7-7 of this title, the department shall find evidence of the presence of any disease dangerous to...
• Section 4:7-9 - Notices And Orders By Department And Service Thereof
  All notices, orders or directions issued by the department in connection with this article shall be in writing, supplemented by such printed matter as...
• Section 4:7-10 - Notice To Department Of Importation Of Plant Material
  Every person who imports plant material of any kind from without the state and every carrier for hire that brings plant material from without...
• Section 4:7-11 - Inspection Of Imported Plant Material
  If the department has any reason to suspect the presence of a dangerous disease in any shipment of plant material imported from without the...
• Section 4:7-12 - Issuance To Prospective Shippers Of Certificates Of Freedom From Disease
  The department shall, unless it has knowledge of the presence of a dangerous disease precluding such action, issue to any nurseryman or other grower...
• Section 4:7-13 - Right Of Entry To Inspect; Interference With Inspectors
  To make the inspections, investigations and examinations provided for in this article and to enforce the provisions of the same, the inspectors and agents...
• Section 4:7-14 - Penalty For Violation, Recovery
  4:7-14. A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) for...
• Section 4:7-14.1 - Disease Public Nuisance
  The Dutch elm disease (Graphium ulmi, Schwarz) is hereby declared a public nuisance, and the protection of the susceptible host plants (elm species) is...
• Section 4:7-14.2 - Control By State Board Of Agriculture
  The state board of agriculture, hereinafter in this article referred to as the "board" , may issue orders pertaining to the control, eradication and...
• Section 4:7-14.3 - Right Of Entry
  Duly authorized representatives of the board may enter upon any lands or premises, public or private, within the state for the purpose of making...
• Section 4:7-14.4 - No Damages Awarded For Destroyed Property
  No damages shall be awarded for the destruction of infected or condemned trees nor for the wood resulting therefrom.
• Section 4:7-14.5 - Co-operative Agreements With Other Bureaus
  The board may enter into agreements with the United States department of agriculture or the department, bureau or other state agency of any other...
• Section 4:7-14.6 - Penalty For Violations; Jail For Nonpayment
  Any person who shall interfere with the representatives of the board while engaged in the performance of any of the duties imposed by this...
• Section 4:7-15 - Definitions
  As used in sections 4:7-16 to 4:7-35 of this title: "Department" means the department of agriculture. "Nursery" includes all lands, premises and buildings upon,...
• Section 4:7-16 - Plants Infested With Insects Likely To Spread, As Nuisance
  All growers of or dealers in plants of any kind, upon their own or upon leased lands or premises, shall free and keep freed...
• Section 4:7-17 - Ordering Nuisances Abated
  Whenever complaint is made to the department that a person is maintaining a nuisance as defined in section 4:7-16 of this title, the department...
• Section 4:7-18 - Penalty For Failure To Obey Order
  4:7-18. A person who shall fail to obey an order of the department made and served as prescribed in R.S.4:7-17, within the time therein...
• Section 4:7-19 - Ordering Destruction Of Plants
  If the order of the department, made and served as prescribed in section 4:7-17 of this title, commanded the destruction of any trees, shrubs,...
• Section 4:7-21 - Inspection Of Nurseries; Fee
  The department shall examine and inspect, or cause to be examined and inspected, at least once in each year, at such time or times...
• Section 4:7-22 - Certificate Of Inspection
  After any nursery has been inspected, the nurseryman may demand of the department a certificate stating the condition of the stock on the inspected...
• Section 4:7-23 - Treatment And Reinspection Where Inspection Shows Infestation
  If the inspection shows the presence of dangerously injurious insects or such as are likely to become so, the department shall require the nurseryman...
• Section 4:7-24 - Inspection As A Prerequisite To Sales, Penalty
  4:7-24. No nurseryman within the State shall sell or offer for sale any nursery stock or shall deliver the same within the State until...
• Section 4:7-25 - Attaching Certificate To Goods Delivered Or Shipped
  Every nurseryman growing stock within this State, and every dealer in nursery stock, shall attach to every car, box, bale or parcel of stock...
• Section 4:7-26 - Misuse Of Certificate, Penalty
  4:7-26. Any nurseryman to whom a certificate has been issued, who shall: a. Use the same on stock not actually inspected; or b. In...
• Section 4:7-29 - Shipment By Nurseryman Under Certificate Of Stock Grown Elsewhere
  A nurseryman or dealer may, under the certificate issued to him, ship nursery stock grown for him elsewhere or purchased by him from other...
• Section 4:7-30 - Certificate Of Inspection To Accompany Nursery Stock Shipped In
  All nursery stock shipped into this state from any foreign state or country must be accompanied by a certificate, dated not more than six...
• Section 4:7-31 - Inspection Of Nursery Stock Entering State; Disposition Of Infested Stock
  The department may inspect nursery stock entering this State that might be capable of disseminating or carrying injurious insects. If, upon inspection, any such...
• Section 4:7-32 - Nursery Stock Shipped In Unaccompanied By Certificate
  A car, box, bale or parcel of nursery stock shipped into this state unaccompanied by a certificate as required by section 4:7-30 of this...
• Section 4:7-33 - Carriers To Refuse Transportation, Penalty
  4:7-33. Every carrier for hire maintaining offices or stations within this State for the receipt of nursery stock for transportation to points within or...
• Section 4:7-34 - Inspection Of Fruit Bearing Trees Or Plants At Request Of Grower
  A farmer, horticulturist or other grower of fruits within this state may request an examination of his trees or other fruit bearing plants, to...
• Section 4:7-35 - Right To Enter Premises For Inspection; Interference Or Obstruction
  For the purpose of making the inspections, examinations and investigations specified in sections 4:7-15 to 4:7-34 of this title, and to enforce the provisions...
• Section 4:7-36 - Declared A Nuisance
  The gipsy moth (Porthetria dispar L.) is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the protection of vegetation or plant life therefrom is...
• Section 4:7-37 - Inspection Of Lands And Premises
  At such times as the department of agriculture, hereinafter referred to as the "department" , may deem necessary, its officers or agents may enter...
• Section 4:7-38 - Measures To Abate Nuisance
  Whenever, as a result of inspection as provided in section 4:7-37 of this title, the department shall find evidence of the gipsy moth or...
• Section 4:7-39 - Notice Of Proposed Action
  Before entering any lands and premises and starting the work of abating and suppressing the gipsy moth in its preliminary stages and protecting surrounding...
• Section 4:7-40 - Right Of Entry To Abate Nuisance
  On the day stated in the notice of the department or on any subsequent day or days convenient to it, the officers or agents...
• Section 4:7-41 - Tenant To Notify Landlord; Penalty
  Every tenant in possession of lands and premises on whom the aforesaid notice is served by the department shall forthwith give notice thereof to...
• Section 4:7-42 - Interference With Officers; Penalty
  A person who shall interfere with the officers or agents of the department while they are engaged in the performance of any of the...
• Section 4:7-43 - Disposal Of Cornstalks, Corn Stubble And Weeds In Infested Areas
  Whenever the state board of agriculture shall find that the European corn borer exists in any political subdivision of this state, it may, in...
• Section 4:7-44 - Penalty For Violations; Jail For Nonpayment
  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 4:7-43 of this Title shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars...
• Section 4:7-54 - Permitting Canada Thistle To Ripen; Penalty
  A person owning, possessing or having charge of lands in this State, whether improved or unimproved, inclosed or uninclosed, who shall knowingly permit any...
• Section 4:7-55 - Bringing Into State Hay Or Seeds Containing Canada Thistle; Misdemeanor
  A person who shall knowingly and willfully bring into this state a bale of hay containing Canada thistle, or seeds of the same, or...
• Section 4:7-56 - Selling Manure Containing Canada Thistle; Misdemeanor
  A person who shall knowingly and willfully sell any manure containing any Canada thistle, or seeds of the same, shall be guilty of a...
• Section 4:8-17.13 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "State board" means the State Board of Agriculture. (b) The term "State Seed Analyst" means the seed analyst...
• Section 4:8-17.14 - Seed Treated With Harmful Substance; Label Or Tag
  Each container of seed treated with a substance harmful to man or other animals shall bear thereon in a conspicuous place, a plainly written...
• Section 4:8-17.15 - Seed Container Labels
  Each container of agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and shrub seeds which is sold, offered for sale, or exposed for sale, or transported within this...
• Section 4:8-17.16 - Unlawful Sale Or Transportation
  No person shall sell, offer for sale, or transport for sale any agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree or shrub seed within this State: (a) Unless...
• Section 4:8-17.17 - Other Unlawful Acts
  No person within this State shall-- (a) Detach, alter, deface, or destroy any label provided for in this act or the rules and regulations...
• Section 4:8-17.17a - Wholesale Seedsmen Or Seed Conditioner; Registration
  a. No person shall engage in the business of a wholesale seedsman or seed conditioner unless the person is registered with the State Board...
• Section 4:8-17.18 - Records And Samples
  Each person whose name appears on the label as handling agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree or shrub seeds subject to this act shall keep for...
• Section 4:8-17.19 - Applicability Of Sections 4:8-17.15 To 4:8-17.17
  The provisions of sections 3, 4 and 5 of this act shall not apply to: (a) Seed or grain not intended for sowing purposes;...
• Section 4:8-17.19a - Inapplicability Of Act To Seeds Sold Directly By Grower
  No provision of the New Jersey State Seed Law (Revision of 1963, P.L.1963, c. 29 (C. 4:8-17.13 et seq.) shall apply to seeds produced...
• Section 4:8-17.20 - Precautions To Insure Correct Identity
  It shall not constitute a violation of this act for any person to have sold or offered or exposed for sale agricultural, vegetable, flower,...
• Section 4:8-17.21 - State Seed Analyst; Agents
  The State Board of Agriculture shall appoint a State Seed Analyst and such other agents as may be deemed necessary to carry out the...
• Section 4:8-17.22 - Enforcement Of Act; Sample, Inspection And Analysis Of Seeds
  The duty of enforcing this act and carrying out its provisions and requirements is vested in the State Seed Analyst, who, together with his...
• Section 4:8-17.23 - Rules And Regulations; Formulation
  The State Board is authorized and directed to formulate and prescribe rules and regulations necessary and appropriate for the administration of this act. Notice...
• Section 4:8-17.24 - Subject Matter Of Rules And Regulations
  The State board may by rule or regulation prescribe and establish: (a) The method or methods of sampling, inspecting, analyzing, testing, and examining seed,...
• Section 4:8-17.25 - Examination And Analysis Of Samples For Public
  Any citizen of the State of New Jersey may in accordance with procedures prescribed by the State Seed Analyst, and by prepaying transportation charges...
• Section 4:8-17.26 - Right Of Entry By State Seed Analyst; "Stop Sale" Orders; Testing Facilities; Purity And Germination Tests
  The State Seed Analyst individually or through his authorized agents, is authorized to: (a) Enter upon any public or private premises during regular business...
• Section 4:8-17.27 - Seizure Of Seeds; Condemnation; Disposition
  Any lot of seed not in compliance with the provisions of this act shall be subject to seizure by the State on complaint of...
• Section 4:8-17.28 - Injunction Against Violations
  When in the performance of his duties the State Seed Analyst in the name of the State applies to any court for temporary or...
• Section 4:8-17.29 - Violations; Penalties; Prosecutions; Hearings; Injunctions
  a. A person who violates any of the provisions of this act or any order, rule or regulation made by the State Board of...
• Section 4:8-17.30 - Funds
  Funds for the maintenance of a seed testing laboratory, staff and the administration of this act shall be included in annual appropriations to the...
• Section 4:8-17.31 - Repeal
  The "New Jersey State Seed Law," being chapter 189 of the laws of 1948 is repealed. L.1963, c. 29, s. 19.
• Section 4:8-17.32 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the New Jersey State Seed Law (Revision of 1963). L.1963, c. 29, s. 20.
• Section 4:8-28 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Apple tree" means any commercially accepted or advertised variety of Malus domestica Borkh budded to a seedling or...
• Section 4:8-29 - Seller Liability
  a. Any seller of apple trees to a commercial grower is liable for the trueness to variety, rootstock, or interstem for a period of...
• Section 4:8-30 - Civil Action For Violation
  Any commercial grower may bring a civil action in law or equity on the grower's own behalf against a seller for a violation of...
• Section 4:8b-1 - Definitions
  When used in this act, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) "Act" means this act and the rules and regulations adopted hereunder. (b)...
• Section 4:8b-2 - Prohibition Against Sale Or Distribution Of Treated Grain Other Than For Seeding Unless Dyed Or Colored
  No distributor shall sell or distribute or have in his possession with intent to sell or distribute for food or feed purposes any treated...
• Section 4:8b-3 - Statement Of Treatment
  A distributor of any treated grain which is sold or distributed for a purpose other than seeding shall deliver or have delivered to the...
• Section 4:8b-4 - Rules And Regulations
  In order to protect the health and welfare of the public, the director shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations: (a) To establish standards...
• Section 4:8b-5 - Stop Sale Order; Issuance And Enforcement Upon Violation
  The State Seed Analyst, individually or through his authorized agents, shall issue and enforce a written or printed "stop sale" order to the owner...
• Section 4:8b-6 - Confiscation Of Grain Sold In Violation Of Act; Jurisdiction
  6. Any lot of treated grain which is sold or distributed in violation of any provision of this act may be confiscated by a...
• Section 4:8b-7 - Warrant
  Upon the filing of a verified complaint the court may issue a warrant directed to the sheriff or a constable of the county or...
• Section 4:8b-8 - Disposition Of Seized Grain
  If upon the hearing it shall appear that the grain was sold or distributed in violation of any provision of this act, it shall...
• Section 4:8b-9 - Sale Of Seized Grain; Bond
  In case the grain seized is of such a character that it may be sold or distributed in compliance with this act, upon the...
• Section 4:8b-10 - Violation; Penalty
  Any person who violates any provision of this act is a disorderly person and upon conviction as such shall be fined not less than...
• Section 4:8b-11 - Act Not To Limit Powers Of State Department Of Health Or State Commissioner Of Health
  Nothing contained herein shall in any way be construed to alter, limit or repeal any of the functions, powers and duties of the State...
• Section 4:9-15.1 - Short Title
  This act may be referred to as the "New Jersey Commercial Fertilizer and Soil Conditioner Act of 1970." L.1970, c. 66, s. 1.
• Section 4:9-15.2 - Administration Of Act
  This act shall be administered by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. L.1970, c. 66, s. 2.
• Section 4:9-15.3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: (a)"Commercial fertilizer" means a fertilizer material, mixed fertilizer or any other substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients...
• Section 4:9-15.4 - Adoption Of Definitions By Regulations
  The State Board of Agriculture may adopt additional definitions by regulations in accordance with section 33 of this act. Definitions of ingredients adopted by...
• Section 4:9-15.5 - Necessity Of License
  Every person who owns or operates a manufacturing facility in this State or under whose name commercial fertilizers or soil conditioners are distributed in...
• Section 4:9-15.6 - License Fee
  6.The minimum annual license fee for a manufacturer or distributor shall be $250.00. In the case of each person who owns or operates more...
• Section 4:9-15.7 - Application; Issuance; Expiration
  Applications for licenses shall be submitted to the State Chemist on forms furnished by his office and shall be accompanied by the appropriate fee....
• Section 4:9-15.8 - Specialty Fertilizers; Furnishing Of Label On Application For License
  A person applying for a license to distribute specialty fertilizers shall, at the time of submitting his application, furnish the State Chemist with a...
• Section 4:9-15.8a - Requirements For Specialty Fertilizer; Definitions.
  10. Any specialty fertilizer labeled for use on turf and intended for use by consumers shall: a.Contain no more than 0.7 pounds of water-soluble...
• Section 4:9-15.9 - Soil Conditioners; Furnishing Of Label On Application For License
  A person applying for a license to manufacture or distribute soil conditioners shall, at the time of submitting his application, furnish the State Chemist...
• Section 4:9-15.10 - Commercial Fertilizer Label To Set Forth Certain Information
  Any commercial fertilizer distributed in this State in containers shall have placed on or affixed to the container a label setting forth in clearly...
• Section 4:9-15.11 - Bulk Distribution Of Fertilizer; Statement Of Information
  For each kind of commercial fertilizer distributed in bulk in this State, a written or printed statement of the information required by section 10...
• Section 4:9-15.12 - Customer Formulated Mix; Label Requirements
  A customer formulated mix shall be designated "customer formulated mix" and, in lieu of the requirements of sections 10 and 11 of this act,...
• Section 4:9-15.13 - Labeling Of Specialty Fertilizer.
  13. a. A specialty fertilizer must be labeled as provided in section 10 of P.L.1970, c.66 (C.4:9-15.10), and additional items may be required by...
• Section 4:9-15.13a - Prohibited Sales Of Fertilizer; Definitions.
  11. a. No person may sell at retail specialty fertilizer which contains more than 0.7 pounds of water-soluble nitrogen or more than 0.9 pounds...
• Section 4:9-15.14 - Labeling Of Soil Conditioner
  Any soil conditioner distributed in this State in containers shall have placed on or affixed to the container a label setting forth in clearly...
• Section 4:9-15.15 - Bulk Soil Conditioners; Statement Of Information
  For each kind of soil conditioner distributed in bulk in this State, a written or printed statement of the information required by section 14...
• Section 4:9-15.16 - Inspection Fee
  16. Each licensee shall pay to the Department of Agriculture for all commercial fertilizers and soil conditioners distributed in this State an inspection fee...
• Section 4:9-15.17 - Tonnage Reports
  Every person who distributes a commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner in this State shall file with the State Department of Agriculture, on a form...
• Section 4:9-15.18 - Comprehensive System Of Reporting; Regulations
  When the State board, after public hearing following due notice, finds it desirable to obtain or disseminate more detailed distribution statistics, it may by...
• Section 4:9-15.19 - Failure To File Tonnage Report Or Pay Inspection Fee; Assessment
  If a licensee fails to file a tonnage report and to pay the inspection fee within 60 days after the end of the semiannual...
• Section 4:9-15.20 - Sales To Intermediate Distributors; Filing Of Report And Payment Of Fee
  When the distribution of a commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner involves sales or distribution to one or more intermediate distributors before sale or distribution...
• Section 4:9-15.21 - Sampling And Analysis By Department Of Agriculture
  It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to sample, inspect, make analyses of, and test commercial fertilizers and soil conditioners distributed...
• Section 4:9-15.22 - Method Of Analysis And Sampling
  The methods of analysis and sampling utilized under section 21 of this act shall be adopted by the State Board of Agriculture on the...
• Section 4:9-15.23 - Determination Of Violations
  The Department of Agriculture, in determining for administrative purposes whether any commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner is in violation of this act, shall base...
• Section 4:9-15.24 - Deficiency; Forwarding Analysis Report To Licensee
  The results of an analysis of a sample of any commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner which indicates a deficiency shall be forwarded promptly by...
• Section 4:9-15.25 - Deficiency In Primary Plant Nutrients; Penalties
  25. If an official analysis shows that a commercial fertilizer is deficient in one or more of its guaranteed primary plant nutrients (nitrogen, available...
• Section 4:9-15.26 - Determination And Publication Of Value Of Primary Plant Nutrients
  For the purpose of determining the commercial values to be applied under section 25 of this act, the State Board of Agriculture shall determine...
• Section 4:9-15.27 - Payment Of Penalties
  All penalties assessed under section 25 of this act shall be paid to the purchaser, or to a consumer who thereafter received possession of...
• Section 4:9-15.28 - Judicial Relief
  Nothing contained in this act shall prevent any person from appealing to a court of competent jurisdiction for relief from an assessment imposed under...
• Section 4:9-15.29 - Deficiency; Penalty Prescribed By Regulation
  If an official report of a sample analysis shows that a commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner is deficient beyond the investigational allowance as established...
• Section 4:9-15.30 - Misbranding
  No person shall distribute a misbranded product. A commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner shall be deemed to be misbranded: (a) If its labeling is...
• Section 4:9-15.31 - Adulterated Products; Prohibition Against Distribution
  No person shall distribute an adulterated product. A commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner shall be deemed to be adulterated: (a) If it contains any...
• Section 4:9-15.32 - Publication Of Information Concerning Distribution Of Fertilizers And Soil Conditioners And Results Of Analyses
  The State Board of Agriculture shall publish in such form and as it may deem proper: (a) At least once every 6 months, information...
• Section 4:9-15.33 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Board of Agriculture, after public hearing and due notice, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (P.L.1968, c. 410, C. 52:14B-1 et...
• Section 4:9-15.33a - Fertilizer Regulation
  The department may adopt rules and regulations it may deem appropriate concerning the preparation, processing or distribution of seafood wastes to be used to...
• Section 4:9-15.33b - Cooperation Encouraged
  The department may cooperate with any State or federal agency or any private organization to effectuate the purposes of this act. L. 1986, c....
• Section 4:9-15.34 - Revocation, Suspension Or Refusal Of License
  The State Board of Agriculture may revoke, suspend, or refuse to renew the license of any licensee or refuse to issue a license to...
• Section 4:9-15.35 - Stop Sale, Use, Or Removal Order
  The State Board of Agriculture may issue and enforce a written "stop sale, use, or removal" order to the owner or custodian of any...
• Section 4:9-15.36 - Seizure And Disposal Of Deficient Products
  Any lot of commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner which is in violation of this act shall be subject to seizure on complaint of the...
• Section 4:9-15.37 - Injunction
  Any violation or threatened violation of any provision of this act or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder may be restrained by the...
• Section 4:9-15.38 - Violations; Penalties
  38. Any person convicted of violating any provision of this act or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder other than a violation involving...
• Section 4:9-15.39 - Hearings
  Upon receiving any information of a violation of any provision of this act or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, the Secretary or...
• Section 4:9-15.40 - Minor Violations; Warnings
  Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring the State Chemist or the Department of Agriculture to report a minor violation for prosecution...
• Section 4:9-15.41 - Exempt Transactions
  Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to sales or exchanges of commercial fertilizer or soil conditioners between importers, manufacturers, or manipulators...
• Section 4:9-15.42 - Severability
  If any provision of this act, or any application of any provision, is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other applications of the...
• Section 4:9-15.43 - Record Of Sales Of Restricted Commercial Fertilizer.
  2. a. Every manufacturer or distributor of a restricted commercial fertilizer shall record, on forms provided by the secretary, the number of a valid...
• Section 4:9-15.44 - Report Of Suspect Purchase, Theft, Loss By Distributors.
  3.A distributor of restricted commercial fertilizer shall immediately report any suspect purchase pattern, theft or loss of inventory of a restricted commercial fertilizer to...
• Section 4:9-15.45 - Immunity For Refusal To Sell, Report Of Suspect Purchases, Certain Circumstances.
  4.Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any person who refuses to sell a restricted commercial fertilizer to any person, or any person...
• Section 4:9-21.1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The New Jersey Agricultural Liming Materials Act." L.1968, c. 392, s. 1.
• Section 4:9-21.2 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: (a) "Agricultural liming materials" means all suitable materials containing calcium or magnesium in chemical form, physical condition and...
• Section 4:9-21.3 - Information Affixed To Each Package Of Agricultural Liming Materials
  3. (a) Agricultural liming materials sold or offered for sale in the State shall have affixed to each package in a conspicuous manner on...
• Section 4:9-21.4 - Requirements For Sale Of Agricultural Liming Material
  4. (a) No person shall sell or offer for sale in this State agricultural liming material unless it complies with the provisions of "The...
• Section 4:9-21.6 - License Required; Expiration
  6. No person shall manufacture for distribution in this State or distribute in this State any agricultural liming material until a license has been...
• Section 4:9-21.7 - Annual License Fee
  7.The annual license fee shall be $250.00 payable on January 1 of each year or prior to the distribution in such year. L.1968,c.392,s.7; amended...
• Section 4:9-21.8 - Statement Submitted By Licensee
  8. Within the 30-day period following December 31 of each year, each licensee shall submit on a form furnished by the State board or...
• Section 4:9-21.9 - Empowerment Of State Board, Authorized Agent
  9. The State board or its authorized agent is hereby empowered and it shall be the duty of its agent to sample, inspect, test,...
• Section 4:9-21.10 - Violations; Penalties
  10. Any person convicted of violating any provision of this act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to a penalty...
• Section 4:9-21.11 - Rules And Regulations
  The State Board of Agriculture after reasonable notice and hearing is empowered to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations for the administration of this...
• Section 4:9-21.12 - Issuance Of Stop Sale, Use, Removal Order
  8.The State Board or its authorized agent may issue in writing a stop sale, use or removal order to the owner or custodian of...
• Section 4:9-22 - Definitions
  As used in this article: "Director" means the director of the New Jersey agricultural experiment station. "Experiment station" means the New Jersey agricultural experiment...
• Section 4:9-23 - Information On Label Of Inoculants Sold
  Every package of legume inoculant sold, offered or exposed for sale in this state shall have attached or affixed to the outside of the...
• Section 4:9-24 - Annual Statement Filed With Director
  A person offering or exposing for sale legume inoculants in this state shall file annually with the director, a statement showing the brands of...
• Section 4:9-25 - Taking And Analysis Of Samples; Publication Of Results
  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article, the director or his deputy, shall take or cause to be taken, as...
• Section 4:9-26 - Rules Regarding Analyses And Sales
  The director may establish such rules and regulations in regard to inspection, analysis and sale of legume inoculants as are not inconsistent with the...
• Section 4:9-27 - Free Examination Of Samples
  A citizen of this state may, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the experiment station for this purpose, and by prepaying the transportation charges,...
• Section 4:9-28 - Penalty For Violations Or Interference
  A person who shall: a. Sell, offer or expose for sale any package of legume inoculant which does not comply with the provisions of...
• Section 4:9-29 - Unmanufactured Manure; Sale Or Delivery Unadulterated
  Whenever unmanufactured horse manure is furnished, sold, or delivered in this State, such manure shall be only the natural product as the same is...
• Section 4:9-30 - When Unmanufactured Manure Deemed Adulterated
  For the purposes of this act, unmanufactured horse manure shall be deemed to be adulterated if it contains any water, intentionally or deliberately added,...
• Section 4:9-31 - Sale Or Delivery Of Adulterated Manure Prohibited
  No person, copartnership, association, or corporation shall furnish, sell or offer for sale, or deliver in this State any unmanufactured horse manure that is...
• Section 4:9-32 - Representation On Sale Or Delivery
  No person, copartnership, association, or corporation in connection with any sale, furnishing, or delivery of manure, shall represent the same as being unmanufactured horse...
• Section 4:9-33 - Sale By Weight; Adulteration Of Manure Unlawful
  Whenever any unmanufactured horse manure is or has been sold by weight, and the price to be paid therefor is to be fixed by...
• Section 4:9-34 - Importation Of Adulterated Manure Prohibited
  No person, copartnership, association, or corporation shall import or bring into this State any manure for the purpose of sale or delivery in this...
• Section 4:9-35 - Misdemeanor; Penalties
  Any person, copartnership, association, or corporation who or which by himself or itself, or by his or its agents, servants, or employees, violates any...
• Section 4:9-36 - Enforcement Of Law By Department Of Weights And Measures; Disposition Of Fines And Penalties
  It shall be the duty of the Department of Weights and Measures to enforce the provisions of this act, and in connection therewith, the...
• Section 4:9-37 - Severability Of Provisions; Partial Invalidity
  The provisions of this act shall be severable, and if any of the provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not...
• Section 4:9-38 - Composting, Handling, Etc. Of Animal Wastes.
  12. The Department of Agriculture shall, by rule or regulation and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), establish criteria...
• Section 4:10-1 - Definitions.
  4:10-1. As used in this chapter: "Department" means the department of agriculture. "Secretary" means the secretary of agriculture. "Farm products" means any agricultural, dairy,...
• Section 4:10-2 - Powers And Duties Of Department
  In order to promote more economical methods of marketing and distributing farm products, the department, acting through the Division of Markets, or otherwise, as...
• Section 4:10-3 - Establishment Of Standards For Grading And For Receptacles
  The department of agriculture may, from time to time, establish and promulgate standards that may be used by producers and distributors under the provisions...
• Section 4:10-4 - Marking Products To Falsely Indicate Conformity To Standard
  Whenever any standard for the grading or other classification of farm products becomes effective under this chapter, no person thereafter shall mark or label...
• Section 4:10-5 - Use Of Outline Of State On Products; License; Penalty.
  4:10-5. No person shall use the outline of this State on packages or devices containing farm products or to otherwise advertise or promote such...
• Section 4:10-6 - Inspection And Classification Of Products According To Standards; Fees
  The secretary may designate any competent employee or agent of the department to make, upon request, investigations, inspections and classifications of farm products in...
• Section 4:10-7 - Appeals From Classification Of Products; Fees
  Any interested party, within a reasonable time, to be prescribed in the regulations made under this chapter, may appeal to the secretary from the...
• Section 4:10-8 - Certificate Of Classification As Evidence
  A certificate, when not superseded by a finding of the grade or other classification of any farm products, issued under this chapter, shall be...
• Section 4:10-9 - Disposition And Use Of Fees Collected.
  4:10-9. All fees and other moneys collected under this chapter by the secretary and the employees or agents of the department, shall be paid...
• Section 4:10-10 - Reports To Department On Products
  A person in this state engaged in marketing farm products shall prepare and submit to the department, upon request, at such regular intervals and...
• Section 4:10-11 - Right Of Entry
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the secretary and the employees or agents of the department may enter, on any business day...
• Section 4:10-12 - Attendance And Testimony Of Witnesses And Production Of Documents
  In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the secretary, or the employees designated by him for the purpose, may: a. Require the attendance...
• Section 4:10-13 - Regulations
  The secretary may make and promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
• Section 4:10-13.1 - Marketing Of Farm Products; Advertising.
  1.No person shall designate, display any sign designating, or advertise any business as a "farmers' market," "farmers' auction market," or use words in connection...
• Section 4:10-14 - Penalty For Violations Or Interference.
  4:10-14. a. A person who shall: (1)except as provided for pursuant to subsection b. of this section, violate any provision of this chapter or...
• Section 4:10-16 - New Jersey Farm Products Publicity Fund Authorized; Deposit
  For the purpose of advertising and promoting the sale of New Jersey farm products, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to receive funds,...
• Section 4:10-17 - Disbursement Of Moneys; Promoting Sale Of Farm Products; Labels
  All moneys so deposited in the "New Jersey Farm Products Publicity Fund" shall be disbursed by the Secretary of Agriculture for advertising and general...
• Section 4:10-18 - Official Brands For Agricultural Products; Registration As Trade-mark
  The Secretary of Agriculture may design, determine and adopt official brands to be used on labels on packages and containers to identify New Jersey...
• Section 4:10-19 - Use Of Brands Or Marks
  Such brand or mark may be used on labels attached to packages containing New Jersey agricultural products either fresh or processed packed within this...
• Section 4:10-19.1 - "Made With Jersey Fresh" Designated Products.
  1.The Secretary of Agriculture in conjunction with the State Board of Agriculture shall develop and implement the inclusion of baked goods or other food...
• Section 4:10-19.2 - Fraudulent Advertising Of Nj Product; Violations, Penalties.
  7.A person shall not advertise, or in any way imply in any advertising or on any packages or devices, that any produce, seafood, dairy,...
• Section 4:10-20 - Regulations
  The Department of Agriculture may make and promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. L.1939, c....
• Section 4:10-21 - Printing Of Labels; License To Use Brand.
  6.The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be printed labels bearing a State brand in sufficient quantities to meet the demand therefor and may...
• Section 4:10-22 - Affixing Labels
  Labels shall be affixed to packages in the manner prescribed by the rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Agriculture. The label denoting...
• Section 4:10-23 - Receipts From Sale Or Use Of Labels; Expenditure
  Direct contributions and moneys derived from the sale or use of labels denoting the State brand shall be recorded separately by products, which shall...
• Section 4:10-24 - Advisory Committee
  The rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Agriculture may provide for an advisory committee of authorized users of the State brand, who...
• Section 4:10-25 - Restraint Of Unauthorized Use Of State Brand, Outline.
  10.The Secretary of Agriculture , in conjunction with the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety, shall have the...
• Section 4:10-25.1 - "Jersey Fresh Farm To School Week."
  1. a. The Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Department of Education, shall coordinate with farmers in the State, the New Jersey Farm...
• Section 4:10-25.2 - Rules, Regulations; Development Of Program.
  2. a. The Department of Agriculture shall develop a "New Jersey Farm to School Program" and, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410...
• Section 4:10-25.2a - Contributions To "New Jersey Farm To School Program" Permitted.
  1.The Secretary of Agriculture may solicit and accept contributions from private and public sources for the purpose of providing support to help fund the...
• Section 4:10-25.2b - "Best In New Jersey 'Farm To School' Awards Program."
  1. a. The Department of Agriculture, in coordination with the Department of Education and any agricultural or farming organization as determined appropriate by the...
• Section 4:10-25.2c - Clearinghouse Website For Farmer To Offer Produce, Dairy Products; Rules, Regulations.
  1. a. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Education and the Department of Health, shall establish and maintain, or partner...
• Section 4:10-25.3 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the "New Jersey Fresh Mobiles Pilot Program Act." L.2011, c.223, s.1.
• Section 4:10-25.4 - Findings, Declarations, Determinations Relative To Provision Of Fresh Produce To Urban Communities.
  2. a. The Legislature finds and declares that there are certain urban areas of the State, known as "food desert" communities, in which residents...
• Section 4:10-25.5 - Definitions Relative To Provision Of Fresh Produce To Urban Communities.
  3.For the purposes of this act: "Department" means the Department of Agriculture. "Federal food stamp assistance program" means the federal food stamp program authorized...
• Section 4:10-25.6 - Mobile Farmers' Market Pilot Program.
  4. a. In order to promote and facilitate improved access to fresh produce by low-income residents of urban food deserts, the Department of Agriculture...
• Section 4:10-25.7 - Identification, Recruitment Of Vendors.
  5. a. The department shall work with participating municipalities to identify and recruit appropriate and qualified persons to serve as vendors to provide fresh...
• Section 4:10-25.8 - Eligibility For Participation As Consumer In Fresh Mobiles Initiative.
  6. a. Any person may participate as a consumer in the Fresh Mobiles Initiative. b.A person who is currently enrolled as a participant in:...
• Section 4:10-25.9 - "New Jersey Fresh Mobiles Operation Fund."
  7. a. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to receive and expend, for the purposes specified in subsection b. of this section, any moneys...
• Section 4:10-26 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as "Controlled Atmosphere Storage Act." L.1962, c. 62, s. 1.
• Section 4:10-27 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases, when used in this act, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them: "Controlled Atmosphere Storage," "Modified Atmosphere Storage,"...
• Section 4:10-28 - Operator's License; Fee; Inspection Of Facilities; Compliance With Act
  Any person desiring to operate a controlled atmosphere storage facility for the storage of agricultural commodities may apply to the Secretary of Agriculture for...
• Section 4:10-29 - Packing Or Repacking Permit
  Any person desiring to pack or repack an agricultural commodity which is represented as having been exposed to controlled atmosphere storage shall apply to...
• Section 4:10-30 - Rules And Regulations
  The board of agriculture is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations governing, among other factors, the following: (a) Record keeping, (b) Reports, (c)...
• Section 4:10-31 - Prohibited Acts
  No person shall: (a) Advertise, label or otherwise represent that any agricultural commodity has been exposed to controlled atmosphere storage unless the agricultural commodity...
• Section 4:10-32 - Storage In Other States
  (a) When an agricultural commodity has been stored in another State which has laws governing controlled atmosphere storage similar to the provisions in effect...
• Section 4:10-33 - Penalty; Injunctive Relief
  8. Any person who violates any provision of this act or the rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto shall be liable to a penalty...
• Section 4:10-34 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases, when used in the act, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them. Words used in the singular shall...
• Section 4:10-35 - Potatoes; Prohibited Acts; Packaging Requirements
  No person shall sell, expose or offer for sale, or transport for sale, potatoes in open or closed packages, except for delivery to processing...
• Section 4:10-36 - Re-use Of Packages
  When potatoes are packed in used packages, any markings pertaining to previous contents of such packages, that do not apply, shall be removed or...
• Section 4:10-37 - Evidence Of Offer Or Transport For Sale
  When open or closed packages of potatoes are placed in transit for sale or delivery or moved to market in any medium of transportation,...
• Section 4:10-38 - Rules And Regulations
  In order to provide for the orderly marketing of potatoes, the board, in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (P.L.1968, c. 410, C. 52:14B-1...
• Section 4:10-39 - Enforcement Of Act By Secretary; Powers
  The secretary is charged with the enforcement of this act and for that purpose the secretary or his authorized agents shall have power: (a)...
• Section 4:10-39.1 - Violations; Hearings; Assessment Of Penalty; Effect Of Payment
  Upon receiving any information of a violation of any provision of this act or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, the secretary or...
• Section 4:10-39.2 - Cooperation And Agreements With Other Agencies And Private Associations
  The secretary may cooperate with and enter into agreements with agencies of this and other states, the Federal Government and private associations in order...
• Section 4:10-40 - Violations; Penalties; Jurisdiction And Venue; Injunctive Relief
  7. Any person who violates any provision of this act, or the rules and regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be liable to a penalty...
• Section 4:10-41 - Appropriation
  There is hereby appropriated to the State Department of Agriculture the sum of $15,000.00 to carry out the requirements of this act for the...
• Section 4:10-42 - Partial Invalidity
  Should any section or provision of this act be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the validity of the act...
• Section 4:10-43 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as the "Agricultural Research, Development and Promotion Act of 1970." L.1971, c. 308, s. 1, eff. Sept. 2, 1971.
• Section 4:10-44 - Purpose
  The purpose of this act is to make possible the establishment of programs for the: (a) Development of methods and means for the maintenance...
• Section 4:10-45 - Definitions
  As used in this act, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture; (b) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture;...
• Section 4:10-46 - Secretary; Powers And Duties; Marketing Program; Hearing; Notice; Administration
  The secretary shall administer and enforce the provisions of this act. In order to effectuate the purposes of this act the secretary is authorized...
• Section 4:10-47 - Reports By Producers
  In order to provide the secretary with necessary information, he may require any producer of any agricultural commodity to file with the department a...
• Section 4:10-48 - Reports And Information As Basis For Program
  Failure or refusal of any producer to file the report authorized in section 5 shall not invalidate any proceeding taken or marketing program issued...
• Section 4:10-49 - Lists Of Producers
  From such reports so filed and the information so received or available to the secretary including any corrections, the secretary shall prepare a list...
• Section 4:10-50 - Confidentiality Of Reports By Producers
  The information contained in the individual reports of producers filed with the secretary pursuant to section 5 of this act shall not be made...
• Section 4:10-51 - Findings Of Secretary; Basis
  In making any findings pursuant to this act, the secretary shall base his findings upon the facts, testimony and evidence received at the public...
• Section 4:10-52 - Advisory Council; Members
  Every marketing program issued pursuant to this act shall provide for the establishment of an advisory council to assist the secretary in the administration...
• Section 4:10-53 - Compensation; Powers And Duties
  No member of any such council shall receive a salary but each shall be entitled to reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of...
• Section 4:10-54 - Subject Matter Of Marketing Program
  Subject to the limitations of any other provision of this act, a marketing program may be effective throughout the State or a portion thereof...
• Section 4:10-54.1 - Persons Assessed By Other Federal, State Or Multistate Programs; Exemption, Adjustment Or Credit
  Any marketing, development, research or promotion program promulgated under provisions of this act may provide for exemption of, or allow suitable adjustments or credits...
• Section 4:10-55 - Referendum For Approval; Bloc Vote Of Nonprofit Associations Of Producers
  No marketing program or major amendment shall be effective unless the secretary finds through referendum: (a) Written consent has been voted by not less...
• Section 4:10-56 - Referendum Date
  At each public hearing upon a marketing program or a major amendment the secretary may receive evidence relating to the time necessary for the...
• Section 4:10-57 - Suspension Or Termination
  The secretary shall suspend or terminate any marketing program effective at the end of the then current marketing season whenever he finds, after a...
• Section 4:10-58 - Minor Amendments
  The secretary may promulgate minor amendments to a marketing program upon the recommendation of the advisory council. L.1971, c. 308, s. 16, eff. Sept....
• Section 4:10-59 - Major Amendments
  Major amendments to marketing programs shall be instituted in the same manner as the marketing program. Provisions effecting substantial modifications or provisions relating to...
• Section 4:10-60 - Effective Date; Filing; Publication
  Any program promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this act shall become effective upon the filing of a copy of the program in the...
• Section 4:10-61 - Rules And Regulations
  The board shall have power to establish general rules and regulations of uniform application to all marketing programs and marketing agreements. L.1971, c. 308,...
• Section 4:10-62 - Deposit For Expenses Upon Application For Marketing Program; Refund; Assessment Of Producers And Processors; Budget
  The secretary may require persons applying for a marketing program to deposit with him in advance such amount as he deems necessary to defray...
• Section 4:10-63 - Deposit By Producers Prior To Marketing Season
  The secretary may require each and every producer directly regulated by any marketing program to deposit with him in advance of the marketing season...
• Section 4:10-64 - Contributions In Lieu Of Advance Deposits; Repayment
  In lieu of requiring advance deposits for defraying administrative advertising, sales promotion, research or education expenses, the secretary is authorized to receive and disburse...
• Section 4:10-65 - Collection Of Assessments
  For the convenience of collecting any assessments on a processing commodity, the secretary may collect such assessments from the processors of the commodity. Any...
• Section 4:10-66 - Deposit Of Funds With State Treasurer; Separate Accounts; Disbursement
  All moneys received by the secretary pursuant to this act shall be deposited as received with the State Treasurer and maintained by him in...
• Section 4:10-67 - Emblems, Labels, Designations Of Grade, Quality Or Condition; Filing; Use
  The advisory council may adopt emblems, labels or other distinctive designations of grade, quality or condition and shall register said emblems, labels or designations...
• Section 4:10-68 - Cooperation With Federal Government And Other States
  The secretary is hereby authorized to confer with and cooperate with the legally constituted authorities of other states and of the United States, for...
• Section 4:10-69 - Assessments As Personal Debts; Action For Collection; Penalty
  Assessments levied by the secretary shall constitute personal debts of persons so assessed and when due shall be payable to the secretary. In the...
• Section 4:10-70 - Liability Of Members And Employees Of Advisory Councils
  The members and employees of any advisory council shall not be held individually responsible to any producer, processor or any other person for errors...
• Section 4:10-71 - Survival Of Causes Of Action; Possession As Prima Facie Evidence Of Offer To Sell; Exercise Of Power Or Duty By Agent
  The suspension, amendment or termination of any marketing program or marketing agreement shall not suspend or terminate any cause of action which has accrued...
• Section 4:10-72 - Penalties; Remedies
  30. Any person who violates any provision of this act or of any marketing program issued pursuant to this act shall be liable to...
• Section 4:10-73 - Application To Laws Governing Agricultural Commodities; Control Or Limitation Of Production
  Nothing in this act shall be construed as repealing or modifying any existing law which governs agricultural commodities, or as authority to control or...
• Section 4:10-74 - Application To Taxes On Poultry Feed, White Potatoes, Asparagus, And Apples; Alteration Of Rates, Form And Manner
  The councils and commodity programs heretofore created and established under chapter 47 (C. 54:47A-1 et seq.) and chapter 169 (C. 54:47B-1 et seq.) of...
• Section 4:10-75 - Petition For Participation By Buyers Or Processors; Referendum
  The secretary is authorized to receive petitions from any buyer, processor or group of processors or buyers to participate and become directly affected by...
• Section 4:10-76 - "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account"; Establishment, Funding.
  2. a. There is established in the Department of Agriculture the "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account," hereinafter referred to as the "account." All monies...
• Section 4:10-77 - New Jersey Wine Industry Advisory Council; Establishment, Members, Duties
  a. There is established in the Department of Agriculture the New Jersey Wine Industry Advisory Council, comprising eight members, three of whom shall be...
• Section 4:10-78 - Certification By Taxation Director
  The Director of the Division of Taxation shall certify by March 1, 1986 and by March 1 annually thereafter to the New Jersey Wine...
• Section 4:10-79 - Establishment Of Organic Certification Program
  1. a. The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish an organic certification program. In establishing the program, the secretary shall consider any national standards that...
• Section 4:11-1 - Definitions.
  4:11-1. As used in this article: "Agent" means any person buying, receiving, soliciting or negotiating the sale of cattle, sheep, horse or swine for...
• Section 4:11-2 - Inapplicability Of Article.
  4:11-2. This article shall not apply: a.To any person who receives, buys, exchanges or ships cattle, sheep, horses or swine exclusively for slaughter; b.To...
• Section 4:11-3 - Necessity Of License; Mode Of Designating Agents
  No person shall engage in or carry on the business of dealer or broker, as defined in section 4:11-1 of this title, or act...
• Section 4:11-4 - Application For License; Fee.
  4:11-4. A person, before engaging in the business referred to in section 4:11-3 of this Title shall, annually on or before June 1, file...
• Section 4:11-5 - Issuance Of License.
  4:11-5. Upon compliance by the applicant with the terms of section 4:11-4 of this Title, the secretary shall, subject to the provisions of this...
• Section 4:11-6 - Investigation Of Record Of Applicant Or Licensee
  The secretary, or an assistant whom he may designate, may, either of his own motion or upon the verified complaint of any interested person,...
• Section 4:11-7 - Hearing By Secretary When Verified Complaint Filed
  When a verified complaint mentioned in section 4:11-6 of this title is filed with the secretary, with respect to any person applying for or...
• Section 4:11-8 - Hearing Before Revocation Of License
  Before any license is revoked, the licensee shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint against him and shall be given at least...
• Section 4:11-9 - Refusal, Revocation Of License.
  4:11-9. The secretary may decline to grant or may revoke a license when he is satisfied that: a.The applicant or licensee has violated the...
• Section 4:11-10 - Review Of Refusal Or Revocation Of License
  The action of the secretary in refusing to grant or in revoking a license shall be subject to review by the Superior Court in...
• Section 4:11-11 - Keeping Of Records By Dealer Or Broker
  Every dealer or broker shall keep accounts, records and memoranda which shall fully and clearly disclose all transactions involved in his business, including the...
• Section 4:11-12 - Posting By Dealer Or Broker Of Copy Of License
  Every person licensed under the provisions of this article and conducting business under the license shall keep a copy thereof, to be furnished by...
• Section 4:11-13 - Agent's Card.
  4:11-13. The licensee and each of his agents shall carry an agent's card at all times, when buying or receiving cattle, sheep, horses or...
• Section 4:11-13.1 - Rules, Regulations.
  3.The board may adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and...
• Section 4:11-14 - Violations, Penalties.
  4:11-14. A person who shall: a.Engage in or carry on the business of buying or receiving cattle, sheep, horses or swine, or receiving, selling,...
• Section 4:11-15 - Definitions
  As used in this article: "Agent" means any person receiving, buying, soliciting or negotiating the sale of any perishable agricultural commodity or hay, straw...
• Section 4:11-16 - Article Inapplicable To Certain Transactions
  This article shall not apply to any transaction in which the grower receives at the time of the transaction full payment of the amount...
• Section 4:11-17 - Cooperative Agricultural Associations; Inapplicability Of Article; Registration; Exempt Agent Identification Cards; Issuance
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to apply to any agricultural cooperative association which deals only with its members and organized pursuant...
• Section 4:11-18 - Necessity Of License
  No person shall engage in or carry on the business of commission merchant, dealer or broker unless he is duly licensed as provided in...
• Section 4:11-19 - Application For License; Fee
  A person before engaging in such business shall on or before November 1 of each year, file an application for a license with the...
• Section 4:11-20 - Bond Accompanying Application; Securities Or Letter Of Credit In Lieu Of Bonds; Perishable Agricultural Commodity Surety Fund.
  4:11-20. a. A license shall not be issued unless and until the applicant has filed a good and sufficient surety bond executed in favor...
• Section 4:11-21 - Agricultural Commodity Agent Licensure
  Upon the filing and approval of the application and bond or securities, as the case may be, the secretary shall thereupon issue to the...
• Section 4:11-22 - Designation And Licensing Of Agent
  No agent shall receive, buy, solicit or negotiate the sale of any agricultural commodity in this State on behalf of any commission merchant, dealer...
• Section 4:11-23 - Investigation Of Record Of Applicant Or Licensee
  The secretary or an assistant whom he may designate may investigate upon the verified complaint of any interested person, or upon the verified complaint...
• Section 4:11-24 - Hearing By Secretary When Verified Complaint Filed
  When a verified complaint is filed with the secretary, as mentioned in section 4:11-23 of this title, with respect to any person applying for...
• Section 4:11-25 - Hearing Before Revocation Of License
  Before any license is revoked the secretary shall give the licensee at least ten days' notice of the time and place of hearing before...
• Section 4:11-26 - Grounds For Refusing Or Revoking License
  The secretary may refuse to grant or may revoke a license for the following causes: a. Where the licensee has made a general assignment...
• Section 4:11-27 - Review Of Refusal Or Revocation Of License
  The action of the department in refusing to grant or in revoking a license shall be subject to review by the Superior Court in...
• Section 4:11-28 - Filing With Secretary Of Claims Against Licensee
  Upon default of any licensee in the payment of any money due to any grower, the grower may file with the secretary, upon a...
• Section 4:11-28.1 - Claim By Grower; Time Of Filing; Contents
  Each grower shall have 90 days from the date payment was due to file a claim with the Secretary of Agriculture on forms prescribed...
• Section 4:11-29 - Audit Of Claims; Demand Upon Surety; Publication Of Nonpayment; Necessity Of Filing Claims; Action
  The secretary shall audit claims properly filed and determine the amounts due all such creditors. Whenever an audit and hearing determine a claim to...
• Section 4:11-29.1 - Request To Producer To Sign Statement Relieving Dealer Or Surety Unlawful
  It shall be unlawful for any person to request a producer to sign any statement, affidavit, assignment, or waiver of any kind which has...
• Section 4:11-30 - Keeping Of Records
  A commission merchant, dealer, broker or his agent shall keep accounts, records and memoranda which shall fully and clearly disclose all transactions involved in...
• Section 4:11-31 - Posting Of Copy Of License
  A person licensed under the provisions of this article and conducting business under the license shall keep a copy thereof, to be furnished by...
• Section 4:11-32 - Carrying And Exhibiting Agent's License
  The licensee and each of his agents shall at all times when receiving, buying, soliciting or negotiating the sale of agricultural commodities carry an...
• Section 4:11-33 - Certification By Secretary As To License
  The secretary shall, upon request, certify whether the records kept by his department show or fail to show the issuance of a license in...
• Section 4:11-33.1 - Rules And Regulations
  The board may make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this article. L.1966, c....
• Section 4:11-34 - Penalty For Violations; Jail For Nonpayment
  A person, who shall engage in the business of commission merchant, dealer or broker, as defined in section 4:11-15 of this Title, without first...
• Section 4:11-34.1 - Termination Of Unlicensed Operations
  The department shall have the power to stop the operation of any person operating in the State of New Jersey without a license as...
• Section 4:11-35 - Definitions
  As used in this act: (a) "Dealer" means any person engaged in the business of buying or receiving any live poultry from poultry raisers...
• Section 4:11-36 - Purchase By Weight Required
  All live poultry shall be bought by avoirdupois net weight and it shall be unlawful for any person to buy or receive or cause...
• Section 4:11-37 - Weight Tickets
  It shall be unlawful for any person to buy or receive or cause to be bought or received, as dealer, broker or agent, any...
• Section 4:11-43 - Subpenas; Issuance; Failure To Obey
  The superintendent shall have the power to issue subpenas to compel production of any pertinent records, books or documents or the attendance of witnesses...
• Section 4:11-44 - Enforcement; Rules And Regulations
  The superintendent of the department shall have general supervision of the administration of this act and shall make such rules and regulations as he...
• Section 4:11-45 - Weight Tickets For Crates Being Transported; Tags On Crates; Removal Of Poultry In Transit
  Where crates or other containers containing live poultry as originally purchased by the buyer are transferred from one vehicle to another for the purpose...
• Section 4:11-46 - Article Inapplicable To Certain Associations, Storekeepers, Restaurants, Etc.
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to any legally incorporated agricultural co-operative association in dealings with its members, nor to storekeepers having...
• Section 4:11-47 - Fines; Jurisdiction; Process; Arrest
  Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act, upon being found guilty, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five...
• Section 4:11-49 - Partial Invalidity
  Should any section or provision of this act be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the validity of the act...
• Section 4:12-1 - Definitions
  As used in this article: "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture. "Station" or "milk gathering station" includes any established office when the business of...
• Section 4:12-1.1 - Applicability Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall apply to licenses issued for the license year commencing July 1, 1959, and thereafter. L.1959, c. 81, p....
• Section 4:12-2 - Licensing Of Dealers Who Buy For Shipment, Sale, Resale Or Manufacture
  No person, unless exempted by the secretary as provided in this section, shall engage in or carry on the business of buying milk or...
• Section 4:12-3 - Application For License
  A person before engaging in the business of buying milk or cream for the purposes specified in section 4:12-2 of this Title shall, annually...
• Section 4:12-4 - Bond Or Deposit For Protection Of Creditors.
  4:12-4. A license shall not be issued unless and until the applicant shall file with the secretary a good and sufficient surety bond, executed...
• Section 4:12-5 - Issuance Of License
  The secretary shall, upon the compliance with sections 4:12-2 to 4:12-4 of this Title, issue to the applicant a license entitling him to conduct...
• Section 4:12-6 - Posting Copy Of License
  Every licensee who carries on or conducts business under his license shall post a copy of the license to be furnished by the secretary,...
• Section 4:12-7 - Filing Of Claims By Creditors Upon Default By Licensee
  Upon default by the licensee in the payment of any money due for the purchase of milk or cream from producers of this state,...
• Section 4:12-8 - Proceedings By Secretary To Determine Amount Due Each Creditor
  The secretary shall audit claims properly filed and determine the amounts due all such creditors. After the expiration of ninety days from the termination...
• Section 4:12-9 - Claims To Which Bonds, Moneys Or Securities Applicable
  Every bond given and all moneys or securities deposited pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be applicable to the payment of all...
• Section 4:12-11 - Investigation Of Adequacy Of, And Requirement Of Additional, Bond Or Deposit; Payments In Lieu Thereof
  A licensee shall make a verified statement of his disbursements during a period to be prescribed by the secretary, containing the names of the...
• Section 4:12-12 - Record Of Purchases And Periodical Statement Thereof To Vendor
  A proprietor of a milk gathering station shall keep, in such form as the secretary may prescribe, a record of transactions of purchases of...
• Section 4:12-13 - Posting Schedule Of Prices
  The secretary may require a proprietor of a milk gathering station to post in a conspicuous place therein a schedule of the prices being...
• Section 4:12-14 - Investigation Of Record Of Applicant Or Licensee
  The secretary and any of his assistants may investigate, upon the complaint of any interested person, or of the secretary's own motion, the record...
• Section 4:12-15 - Hearing By Secretary On Complaint After Notice
  When a complaint mentioned in section 4:12-14 of this title is filed with the secretary, he shall attempt to secure an explanation or adjustment,...
• Section 4:12-16 - Application For Investigation By Either Party To Transaction
  If either party to the transaction of purchase and sale of milk between a milk producer or a milk seller and a licensed buyer...
• Section 4:12-17 - Grounds For Refusal Or Revocation Of License
  The secretary may decline to grant or may revoke a license when he is satisfied of the existence of the following causes or any...
• Section 4:12-18 - Review By Court Of Refusal Or Revocation Of License
  The action of the secretary in refusing to grant or in revoking a license shall be subject to review by the Superior Court in...
• Section 4:12-19 - Penalty For Conducting Business Without License
  A person who shall conduct the business of buying milk or cream for the purposes set forth in section 4:12-2 of this Title, without...
• Section 4:12-19.1 - Request For Statement Relieving Dealer, Indemnitor Or Surety Of Responsibility Forbidden
  It shall be unlawful for any person to request a producer to sign any statement, affidavit, assignment, or waiver of any kind which has...
• Section 4:12-41.1 - Definitions
  The following words when used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings: (a) "Director" --The Director of the...
• Section 4:12-41.2 - Testing Equipment; Methods; Approval
  No person, nor any employee of such person, shall use in the determination of the butter fat content of milk or cream any test...
• Section 4:12-41.3 - Permit To Buy On Butter Fat Basis
  Every person receiving or buying milk or cream on the basis of the butter fat content therein shall be required to hold a permit...
• Section 4:12-41.4 - License To Make Butter Fat Test
  No person nor any employee of any person shall make a butter fat test unless he shall first have procured a license from the...
• Section 4:12-41.5 - Persons Taking Sample, Approval Of; Record; Duplicate Statements And Records
  No sample of milk or cream taken for the purpose of making a butter fat test, and no weight or measure of milk or...
• Section 4:12-41.6 - Inspection Sample, Taking And Retaining; Inspection Of Sample
  Any person purchasing milk or cream and paying for the same on the basis of the percentage of butter fat therein shall take and...
• Section 4:12-41.7 - Permission To Use Fresh Samples As Basis Of Payment; Taking And Testing Fresh Samples; Preservation
  Any person licensed under this act to purchase milk on a butter fat basis may make joint application with the producers from whom the...
• Section 4:12-41.8 - Place Of Butter Fat Tests
  All samples of milk or cream that are taken for the purpose of determining the per centum of butter fat to be used as...
• Section 4:12-41.9 - Type Of Weigh Tank Or Container; Manner Of Agitating
  No person receiving or purchasing milk or cream on the basis of its butter fat content shall use a weigh tank or container from...
• Section 4:12-41.10 - Treatment Of Sample Forbidden
  No sample of milk or cream taken for butter fat testing shall be treated in any way so as to cause it to test...
• Section 4:12-41.11 - Underreading, Overreading Or Manipulating Test; Falsifying Records
  No person, nor any employee of such person, shall underread, overread or in any way manipulate any approved butter fat test so that other...
• Section 4:12-41.12 - Underreading, Overreading Or Manipulating Weighing Or Measuring Device; Falsifying Records
  No person, nor any employee of such person, shall underread, overread or in any way manipulate any weighing or measuring device so that other...
• Section 4:12-41.13 - Correct Weights, Measures And Tests Required; Revocation Of Licenses For Tampering
  No person purchasing milk or cream on the basis of its butter fat content shall use any weight, measure or butter fat test thereof...
• Section 4:12-41.14 - Entering Premises For Inspection; Examination Of Books And Records
  The director, or any of his employees, agents or representatives shall have the authority at all reasonable hours to enter and inspect the premises...
• Section 4:12-41.15 - Rules And Regulations
  The director is hereby empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this act as he may deem necessary...
• Section 4:12-41.16 - Duplicate Statement Requirements And Provisions Of Section 4:12-41.9 Suspended During World War
  In view of the critical shortage of materials resulting from the present world war, the operation of the provision of section five relating to...
• Section 4:12-41.17 - Hindering Or Molesting Director Or Representatives Prohibited
  No person shall in any way or manner hinder or molest the director or any of his employees, agents or representatives in the performance...
• Section 4:12-41.18 - Revocation Or Suspension Of Licenses
  The director may revoke or suspend any license or permit issued to any person under the provisions of this act, after a hearing, upon...
• Section 4:12-41.19 - Violations Of Act
  Any employee of any person buying milk or cream on the basis of the amount of butter fat contained therein, or any person testing...
• Section 4:12-41.20 - Procedure To Recover Penalty; Actions; Jurisdiction
  The procedure for the recovery of any penalty incurred under the provision of this act shall be the same as the procedure specified in...
• Section 4:12-41.21 - Partial Invalidity
  Should any section, paragraph, clause or sentence of this act be declared unconstitutional or invalid, for any reason, the remainder of the said act...
• Section 4:12-41.22 - Fiscal Period For Permits And Licenses
  All permits and licenses required to be issued by this act shall be issued for a fiscal period ending June thirtieth of each year....
• Section 4:12-41.23 - Repeal
  Article two of chapter twelve of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes is repealed. L.1943, c. 100, p. 332, s. 23.
• Section 4:12-41.24 - Effective Date
  This act shall become effective July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-three. L.1943, c. 100, p. 332, s. 24.
• Section 4:12-41.25 - Powers And Duties Of Director Of New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Transferred To Department Of Agriculture
  The functions, powers and duties charged to the director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station by "An act concerning the purchasing, buying or...
• Section 4:12-41.26 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine. L.1948, c. 458, p. 1883, s. 2.
• Section 4:12-42 - Deductions By Milk Dealers And Milk Companies Authorized; Statement; Retention Of Bookkeeping Costs
  Where milk producers have joined a duly incorporated milk producers' association in this state and written request has been made by the individual milk...
• Section 4:12-43 - Failure To Make Deductions Or Forward Sum Deducted
  Any milk dealer or milk company which neglects to make deductions when authorized in writing by each individual milk producer to make specified deductions,...
• Section 4:12-44 - Penalty For Violation Of Article
  Any milk dealer or milk company violating any provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for...
• Section 4:12a-1 - Definitions
  Words used in this act, unless otherwise expressly stated, or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings: "Board."...
• Section 4:12a-2 - Milk Control Board; Established; First Members; Term Of Office
  There is hereby established a board to be known as the "Milk Control Board" which shall consist of three members who shall be citizens...
• Section 4:12a-3 - Per Diem And Expenses
  The members of the board shall each receive a per diem of twenty dollars ($20.00), while in actual attendance at board meetings or in...
• Section 4:12a-4 - Director; Deputy; Counsel; Clerical And Other Assistants
  The board shall appoint a director of milk control for a term of five years, who shall be paid such salary as shall be...
• Section 4:12a-5 - Chairman And Recording Secretary Of Board; Quorum; Meetings; Seal
  The board shall choose a chairman from its own members and recording secretary, who may be a member of the director's staff. The board...
• Section 4:12a-6 - Principal Office
  The principal office of the board and of the director shall be in the city of Trenton in rooms assigned, furnished and equipped by...
• Section 4:12a-7 - General Powers Of Board And Director; Orders; Rules And Regulations
  The board and the director are hereby declared to be the instrumentalities of the State for the purpose of attaining the ends in this...
• Section 4:12a-8 - Enforcement Of Act And Rules And Regulations
  Any duly authorized appointee of the director shall, subject to the limitations herein contained, enforce the provisions of this act and all rules and...
• Section 4:12a-9 - Appeals; Hearing And Determination By Board; Stay
  The board is hereby empowered and charged with the duty to hear, review, and determine all appeals by any person, applicant or licensee aggrieved...
• Section 4:12a-10 - Oaths; Administering By Board Members; Subpoenas; Misconduct; False Testimony
  Each member of the board shall have power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, and shall have power to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance...
• Section 4:12a-11 - Place Of Hearings; Technical Rules Of Evidence
  Any hearing by the director or by the board may be held in any part of the State and neither the director nor the...
• Section 4:12a-12 - Review By Superior Court; Bond
  Any person, applicant or licensee aggrieved by any order or determination of the board made pursuant to this act may obtain a review of...
• Section 4:12a-13 - Rules Of Evidence And Procedure; Proceedings Of Director
  The hearings before and the proceedings of the director shall be conducted in accordance with such rules of evidence and procedure as the director...
• Section 4:12a-14 - Subpoenas; Issuance By Director
  The director shall have the power to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers and records for...
• Section 4:12a-15 - Oaths; Power Of Director To Administer
  The director or any person authorized by law is hereby authorized to administer oaths to all such witnesses as may appear or be brought...
• Section 4:12a-16 - Refusal To Obey Subpoena Or Testify; Contempt
  In case any person so summoned by subpoena issued by said director, shall refuse to obey such subpoena or any directions therein, or to...
• Section 4:12a-17 - Incriminating Testimony; Immunity
  No person shall be excused from testifying or producing any book, paper, document or record when subpoenaed as aforesaid upon the ground that the...
• Section 4:12a-18 - Service Of Subpoenas; Fees And Mileage
  The process of subpoena authorized in this act shall be served in the same manner and be of the same force and effect as...
• Section 4:12a-19 - Investigations; Powers Of Director
  The director shall have power to investigate all matters pertaining to the production, distribution, importation, storage, disposal, classification, sale or resale, conditions and terms...
• Section 4:12a-20 - Rules, Regulations And Orders Of Director; Promulgation; Enforcement; Service
  The director may adopt, promulgate and enforce all rules, regulations and orders necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. An order applying...
• Section 4:12a-21 - Powers Of Director Enumerated
  The director may fix the price at which milk is to be bought, sold, or distributed; regulate conditions and terms of sale; establish and...
• Section 4:12a-22 - Minimum Prices; Power Of Director To Fix
  The director may ascertain, determine and may fix or refix by investigation and proof, as the emergency permits, the minimum prices to be paid...
• Section 4:12a-22.1 - Minimum Prices; Limits On Power Of Director To Fix
  The provisions of sections 21 and 22 of the act to which this act is a supplement notwithstanding, the director's power to fix or...
• Section 4:12a-22.2 - Prices Dependent On Size Or Type Of Container
  Nothing contained herein shall preclude the director from establishing cost-justified lower minimum margins or differentials with respect to any particular size or type of...
• Section 4:12a-23 - Notice Of Hearing; Order Fixing Prices; When Effective
  Before fixing or refixing any price, the director shall give a notice by public advertisement inserted in at least three daily newspapers of this...
• Section 4:12a-24 - Mediation Of Controversies
  The director or the board may act as mediator and arbitrator in any controversy or issue that may arise among or between producers, milk...
• Section 4:12a-25 - Agreements With Other Agencies
  For the furtherance of the objects stated in this act the director shall have authority to enter into agreements with State county and municipal...
• Section 4:12a-26 - Sales; Rules And Regulations
  To effectuate the orderly sale and distribution of milk between dealers, processors, subdealers and stores, and carry out the provisions of this act, the...
• Section 4:12a-27 - Inspection Of Premises; Books And Records; Right Of Entry
  The director or an employee designated by him for such purpose shall have access to and may enter at all reasonable hours all places...
• Section 4:12a-28 - Licenses; Dealers; Processors; Subdealers; Stores
  No milk dealer, processor, subdealer or store, as defined in this act, shall buy milk from producers or others for sale, disposal, importation, transportation,...
• Section 4:12a-29 - Milk Purchased For Less Than Minimum Price; Prohibition Against Sale And Distribution
  No milk dealer, processor, subdealer or store shall distribute, sell or handle milk in this State which is obtained from any producer, other milk...
• Section 4:12a-30 - Secret Agreement For Price Reduction Prohibited; Exception
  No licensee or other person, association or corporation shall hereafter contrary to the public interest operate in any municipality under any mutual or secret...
• Section 4:12a-31 - Blending Proceeds Of Sales
  It is the intent of the Legislature that no provisions of this act shall prevent a producer co-operative association or producer co-operative corporation approved...
• Section 4:12a-32 - Application For License; Form; Prerequisites
  The application for license shall be made on a form prepared by the director. The director may require an applicant for a license to...
• Section 4:12a-33 - Application For License, Time For Making; Contents; Display Of License
  An application for a license to operate as a milk dealer or store shall be made before any person shall commence business as a...
• Section 4:12a-34 - Refusal Or Suspension Or Revocation Of License; Notice Of Hearing
  Before declining to grant a license or conditioning or limiting a license, or suspending or revoking a license previously granted, the director shall give...
• Section 4:12a-35 - Refusal Or Suspension Or Revocation Of License; Grounds
  The director after hearing duly held in accordance with the provisions of this act, may decline to grant a license or may issue a...
• Section 4:12a-36 - Fees
  Every person required by this act to be licensed shall pay a yearly license fee as follows: Store--each and every store selling milk shall...
• Section 4:12a-37 - Records
  The director may require the licensees to keep the following records: (1) A record of all milk received, detailed as to location, and as...
• Section 4:12a-38 - Reports Of Licensee
  Each licensee shall, from time to time, as required by the rule or order of the director, make and file a verified report on...
• Section 4:12a-39 - Violations Of Act; Penalty; Seizure And Sale
  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act or the orders, rules and regulations of the director as adopted from...
• Section 4:12a-40 - Release Of Milk Or Proceeds Of Sale
  The director or court may in his or its discretion release the milk as herein defined, or the funds derived from the sale of...
• Section 4:12a-41 - Jurisdiction; Enforcement
  41. The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction of actions for penalties under this act and such penalties shall be collected and enforced in a...
• Section 4:12a-43 - Informal Hearings On Violations; Adjustments
  Upon receiving evidence of a violation of any of the provisions of this act or of any of the rules, regulations or orders of...
• Section 4:12a-44 - Actions To Restrain Violations
  Any habitual violation of the act or of any of the orders or rules or regulations made pursuant to the act may be restrained...
• Section 4:12a-45 - Disposition Of License Fees, Penalties, Fines And Costs
  All funds derived from fees for licenses issued hereunder are hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the operation of the department, and the...
• Section 4:12a-46 - Continuation Of Former Laws; Pending Suits Continued
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this act is a continuation of the State Milk Control Law, chapter one hundred sixty-nine, pamphlet...
• Section 4:12a-47 - Licenses Issued Under Prior Laws Continued
  Licenses issued by the milk control board under chapter eighty-two of the pamphlet laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine shall continue in...
• Section 4:12a-48 - Grant Of Specific Powers Not To Impair General Powers
  The operation and effect of any provision of this act conferring a general power upon the board or the director shall not be impaired...
• Section 4:12a-49 - Declaration Of Legislative Intent; Action To Restrain Unlawful Acts
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the instant, whenever that may be, that the handling within the State, by a milk dealer,...
• Section 4:12a-50 - Foreign Or Interstate Commerce
  No provisions of this act shall apply or be construed to apply to foreign or interstate commerce, except in so far as the same...
• Section 4:12a-51 - Partial Invalidity
  The sections and parts of sections included in this act are hereby declared to be independent sections and parts of sections; if any such...
• Section 4:12a-52 - Expiration Date
  This act shall be effective until such date as the Legislature shall determine an emergency no longer exists and the exercise of the police...
• Section 4:12a-53 - "Distributor" Defined
  As used in this act, the word "distributor" shall mean any person, partnership, company, association, firm or corporation licensed as a store, milk dealer,...
• Section 4:12a-54 - Examination Of Records To Determine Cost Of Distributing Milk
  The Department of Agriculture is authorized to examine and study the records and accounts of distributors of milk in New Jersey, covering such periods...
• Section 4:12a-55 - Milk Distributors To Make Records Available; Evidence, Production Of
  Every distributor of milk in New Jersey, as defined above, shall make available to the Department of Agriculture or its duly authorized agents all...
• Section 4:12a-56 - Accountants, Employment Of
  The Department of Agriculture is authorized to employ the services of certified public accountants and such other assistants as are necessary to examine and...
• Section 4:12a-57 - Penalty For Distributor's Failure To Comply Or Interference
  A distributor who shall: a. Fail to comply with the requirements of this act; b. With intent to deceive, answer or report falsely in...
• Section 4:12a-58 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two. L.1942, c. 263, p. 708, s. 7.
• Section 4:12a-63 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Milk Case Recovery Act." L.1982, c. 216, s. 2.
• Section 4:12a-64 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Milk case" means a rigid, reusable milk container case including wood, metal or plastic, which is used for...
• Section 4:12a-65 - Milk Container Marks And Identification; Filing With Secretary Of Agriculture
  Any person who is engaged in receiving, processing, manufacturing, packing, canning, bottling, handling, or selling milk or any products of milk in containers, cabinets,...
• Section 4:12a-66 - Wholesale Purchasers; Exemption
  Wholesale milk and milk product purchasers who, in the normal course of milk distribution procedures, hold milk cases for pickup by the owners or...
• Section 4:12a-67 - Offenses
  It is unlawful for any person to: a. Receive, take, store, buy, sell, dispose, use or otherwise possess any milk case without the consent...
• Section 4:12a-68 - Evidence Of Offenses
  The using, buying, selling, possession, destroying, or defacing of a milk case by any person without the written consent of the owner shall be...
• Section 4:12a-69 - Penalties
  Any person who violates this act shall be subject to a fine of up to $100.00 for the illegal possession of up to nine...
• Section 4:12a-70 - Habitual Offenders; Injunction
  An habitual violation of this act or of any rule or regulation made pursuant to this act may be restrained by a court of...
• Section 4:12a-71 - Rules And Regulations
  The Secretary of Agriculture may promulgate rules and regulations necessary to enforce the provisions of this act. L.1982, c. 216, s. 10.
• Section 4:13-1 - Definitions
  "Agricultural products" includes horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, fur-bearing animals, poultry, bee and any farm products, including fresh and salt water food products....
• Section 4:13-2 - Incorporation
  Any 3 or more persons or any 2 or more agricultural co-operative associations or combination thereof eligible for membership under this chapter may form...
• Section 4:13-2.1 - Annual Fee; Exemption From Corporation Business Tax Act And Uniform Security Act
  Each agricultural cooperative association organized hereunder with or without capital stock or foreign corporations authorized to transact business under the provisions of 4:13-15 shall...
• Section 4:13-3 - Purposes Of Incorporation
  An association may be organized to engage in any co-operative activities for its members, and within the limitations hereinafter in this chapter set forth,...
• Section 4:13-4 - Certificate Of Incorporation
  The certificate of incorporation shall be signed by all the incorporators and shall set forth: a. The name of the association, which may include...
• Section 4:13-5 - Use By Similar Organizations Of Term "Co-operative"
  No person, firm, corporation or association organized after February 28, 1924, for the purpose of engaging in any of the activities mentioned in section...
• Section 4:13-6 - Filing Of Certificate; Fee
  The certificate of incorporation shall be signed by incorporators, and; a. Shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State; and, b....
• Section 4:13-7 - Association As Body Corporate
  The persons so associating, their successors and assigns, shall, from the date of the filing and recording with the Secretary of State, be a...
• Section 4:13-8 - Amending Certificate
  The certificate of incorporation may be amended by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members or delegates present and acting at any...
• Section 4:13-9 - Certificate As Evidence
  The certificate, or a copy thereof duly certified by the secretary of state, shall be evidence in all courts and places.
• Section 4:13-10 - Merger Or Consolidation Of Associations
  Whenever any two or more associations incorporated or authorized to transact business under the provisions of this act desire to merge or consolidate into...
• Section 4:13-10.1 - Federated Co-operative Associations; Membership
  Two or more associations incorporated in New Jersey or foreign cooperatives may form or become a member of a federated cooperative association incorporated under...
• Section 4:13-11 - Dissolution Of Associations
  The members of any association, at any regular or special meeting or meetings called for the purpose upon not less than 20 days' notice...
• Section 4:13-12 - General Corporation Laws To Govern
  The provisions of the general corporation laws of this state, and all powers and rights thereunder, shall apply to the associations organized under this...
• Section 4:13-13 - Right Of Existing Associations To Come Within Chapter
  An agricultural association or corporation, incorporated or authorized to do business in this State under any law other than this chapter, may become subject...
• Section 4:13-14 - Associations Incorporated Under 1920 Law Subject To Chapter
  All associations incorporated prior to February twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, under the act entitled "An act to provide for the formation...
• Section 4:13-15 - Authorizing Foreign Corporations To Transact Business
  A foreign corporation organized for the purpose of engaging in any of the activities mentioned in section 4:13-3 of this Title, and desiring to...
• Section 4:13-16 - General Powers Of Association
  Every association may: a. Have succession, by its corporate name, for the period limited in its certificate of incorporation, and, when no period is...
• Section 4:13-17 - First Meeting
  The first meeting of the association shall be called by a notice, designating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, signed by a...
• Section 4:13-18 - Election Of Directors; By-laws; Adoption; Contents
  At the first meeting of the association the directors shall be elected and, by majority vote of the members or their written assent, bylaws...
• Section 4:13-19 - Board Of Directors
  The board of directors of an association shall consist of not less than 3 persons and the directors shall be members of the association...
• Section 4:13-20 - Officers
  The officers of an association shall include a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, who shall be appointed annually by the board of directors....
• Section 4:13-21 - Eligibility To Membership
  An association may admit as members, or issue common stock to, any persons engaged in the production of agricultural products, including the lessees and...
• Section 4:13-22 - Expulsion Of Members; Removal Of Director Or Officer
  A member, director or officer who is also a director of the association may, for cause, be expelled from membership or removed from office,...
• Section 4:13-23 - Issuance Of Certificates
  Every association without capital stock shall issue a certificate of membership to each member. Every association with capital stock shall issue a certificate of...
• Section 4:13-24 - Voting
  No member shall be entitled to more than one vote except as herein provided. No vote by proxy shall be received. Absent members may,...
• Section 4:13-24.1 - Proportionate Voting Rights; Exception
  An association incorporated under this chapter may provide in its certificate of incorporation or by-laws for proportionate or unequal voting rights of all its...
• Section 4:13-24.2 - Election Of Delegates; Method Of Voting
  An association may, by by-law, provide for a method of voting for the election of a delegate or delegates from each of its designated...
• Section 4:13-25 - Liability Of Member For Debts Of Association
  No member shall be personally liable for the debts of the association. Amended by L.1966, c. 286, s. 23.
• Section 4:13-26 - Marketing Contracts And Agencies
  Any association may enter into marketing contracts or agreements with any of its members and into contracts and agreements with any marketing or purchasing...
• Section 4:13-26.1 - Deductions From Contracts By Members With Buyers, Handlers Or Processors Payable To Association; Liability For Failure To Deduct
  Where any person, partnership, firm or corporation has voluntarily become a member of a nonprofit co-operative agricultural marketing association incorporated pursuant to chapter 13...
• Section 4:13-27 - Requiring Members To Deal Through Association; Withdrawal
  The by-laws or contracts may require the members to sell all or any part of their specifically enumerated agricultural products, and buy all or...
• Section 4:13-28 - Liquidated Damages For Failure Of Member To Perform
  The by-laws or contract may fix specific sums, in amounts fairly related to the actual damages ordinarily suffered in like circumstances, to be paid...
• Section 4:13-29 - Validity Of Contracts With Members; Breach Of Contract; Injunction
  Any contract between an association and any of its members, which is authorized by this chapter, shall be valid and enforceable in any action...
• Section 4:13-30 - Dealings With Nonmembers
  The association may market agricultural products and purchase equipment and supplies for nonmembers, but not to an amount greater in value than the amount...
• Section 4:13-31 - Reserve Funds; Fees And Charges; Patron's Revolving Funds; Certificates
  The directors may establish reserve funds for working capital and for contingencies and patrons' revolving funds and transfer thereto, from time to time in...
• Section 4:13-32 - Dividing Yearly Balance Of Associations Without Capital Stock
  In the case of associations without capital stock after payment of expenses and the establishment of the funds, as authorized in section 4:13-31 of...
• Section 4:13-33 - Dividends And Division Of Balance Of Associations With Capital Stock
  In the case of associations with capital stock, after payment of expenses and the establishment of the funds, as authorized in section 4:13-31 of...
• Section 4:13-34 - Annual Audit And Report; Disclosure Forbidden
  An association shall appoint, annually, an auditing committee of 3 persons, who shall not be directors, officers, agents or employees of the association but...
• Section 4:13-34.1 - Filing Of Annual Report; Contents
  Any association coming under the provisions of this chapter shall, within 4 months after the expiration of its fiscal year, file an annual report...
• Section 4:13-35 - List Of Associations Not Filing Report Of Audit
  On or before August 31 each year, the Secretary of Agriculture shall have the authority, if in his opinion the same is justified, to...
• Section 4:13-36 - Notice To Associations
  The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within the ten days immediately following transmittal of the list to the Secretary of State, mail a notice of...
• Section 4:13-37 - Proclamation Of Dissolution; Publication
  The Secretary of State shall, upon receipt of such a list, cause the names so certified to be compared with his records, and if...
• Section 4:13-38 - Dissolution Upon Issuance Of Proclamation
  Upon issuance of such proclamation and the mailing of a copy thereof, in the manner aforesaid, each domestic association named therein shall be deemed...
• Section 4:13-39 - Copies Of Proclamation; Mailing; Filing
  The Secretary of State shall also mail a copy of such proclamation to the clerk of each county in the State. The county clerk...
• Section 4:13-40 - Reservation Of Names Of Dissolved Associations
  The names of all co-operative associations so dissolved or whose authority to transact business has been terminated shall be reserved for a period of...
• Section 4:13-41 - Certificate Of Compliance; Effect; Fees
  If any such association so dissolved or whose authority has been terminated shall file with the Secretary of State before the expiration of 3...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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....
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:14-1 - Department To Encourage Formation
  The department of agriculture shall encourage and aid so far as practicable, the formation of county boards of agriculture in the several counties of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:14-5 - Rules For Government
  The state board of agriculture may adopt suitable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this title, for the government of the county boards of
• Section 4:14-6 - Annual Appropriation For Expenses
  There shall be appropriated annually out of the general revenues of the state for the expenses of conducting the state horticultural society, such sum...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:15-1 - "Association" Defined
  "Association" as used in this article shall include all corporations organized for the purpose of holding agricultural fairs and exhibitions.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:15-12 - Advisory Committee
  The State Board of Agriculture may appoint an advisory committee of one person from each branch of the livestock industry to further this type...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:16-12 - "Poultry" Defined
  "Poultry" , as used in sections 4:16-13 to 4:16-16 of this title, includes all birds which are or may be domesticated for farm use...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:16-15 - Investigations In Poultry Breeding And Care
  The department shall conduct such investigations and experiments in the breeding and care of poultry as are deemed necessary to the poultry interests of...
• Section 4:16-16 - Publication Of Results Of Investigations
  The results of investigations under section 4:16-15 of this title shall be published in the bulletins and reports of the experiment station.
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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;...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:16-22 - Definition; Construction Of Article
  As used in this article, "director of the extension service" means the director of the extension service of the agricultural experiment station. This article...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:17-2 - Trespass; Enforcement
  4:17-2. Any person who trespasses upon the agricultural or horticultural lands of another is liable to a penalty of not less than $100.00, to...
• Section 4:17-3 - Arrest Of Offenders Without Warrant
  A person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article may be arrested without warrant by the owner, occupant, lessee or licensee,...
• Section 4:17-4 - Failure To Produce Permit As Evidence
  In a prosecution for violation of the provisions of this article, the failure of the defendant to produce a written permit to enter upon...
• Section 4:17-5 - Jail For Nonpayment Of Fine
  Upon the failure of a person convicted of violating the provisions of this article to pay a fine imposed as provided in this article,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 4:18a-3 - Uses Of Funds
  The fund shall be available to the secretary for: (a) Such rural rehabilitation purposes which were permissible under the Certificate of Incorporation of the...
• Section 4:18a-4 - Vouchers
  Money requisitioned for the purposes specified in section three of this act shall be paid by the treasurer upon receipt by him of a...
• Section 4:18a-5 - Agreements With United States Secretary Of Agriculture Regarding Loans Under Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act
  The Secretary is authorized, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture, to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the...
• Section 4:18a-6 - Powers Of Secretary Of Agriculture; Delegation Of Authority
  The secretary, pursuant to regulations to be promulgated by him, subject to the approval of the Attorney General of this State, is authorized and...
• Section 4:18a-7 - Accounts; Audit
  The secretary shall keep accurate accounts of the receipts and disbursements of the fund which shall be subject to examination by the State auditor...
• Section 4:18a-8 - Rules And Regulations; Delegations Of Authority
  The secretary, with the advice of the State Board of Agriculture, is authorized to make such rules and regulations and such delegations of authority...
• Section 4:18a-9 - Freedom From Liability
  The United States and the Secretary of Agriculture thereof shall be held free from liability by virtue of the transfer of the assets to...
• Section 4:18a-10 - Partial Invalidity
  If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this act, and...
• Section 4:19-1 - Annual Dog Taxes
  A person shall, except as hereinafter provided, be taxed annually the sum of one dollar for each dog above the age of six months...
• Section 4:19-2 - Assessors To Set Down Number Of Dogs Owned
  The assessors of the several taxing districts in this state shall set down in a separate column on the several duplicates opposite the name...
• Section 4:19-3 - Refusal To Report Number And Age Of Dogs; Penalty
  An inhabitant who shall refuse or willfully neglect to deliver to the assessor, when required by him, a true account of the number and...
• Section 4:19-4 - Use Of Tax Collections To Pay Claims; Handling Of Fund
  The sums of money collected from the tax imposed by virtue of this article shall be appropriated in the annual budget and the taxing...
• Section 4:19-5 - Claims For And Establishment Of Damages
  When any person shall sustain damage by the destruction or wounding of his sheep, lambs, domestic animals or poultry, except dogs and cats, he...
• Section 4:19-6 - Suit By Municipality Against Owner
  If any claim for damage is presented and allowed by the governing body of a municipality, such governing body may institute and maintain an...
• Section 4:19-7 - Effect Of Article On Owner's Liability
  This article shall not exempt the owner, possessor or harborer of a dog from liability for damage done by it but he is hereby...
• Section 4:19-8 - Failure To Kill Dog Found Worrying Livestock, Penalty
  4:19-8. An owner or person harboring a dog which is found killing, worrying or wounding any sheep, lamb, domestic animal or poultry, who shall,...
• Section 4:19-9 - Right To Destroy Offending Dogs
  A person may humanely destroy a dog in self defense, or which is found chasing, worrying, wounding or destroying any sheep, lamb, poultry or...
• Section 4:19-15.1 - Definitions.
  1.As used in P.L.1941, c.151 (C.4:19-15.1 et seq.): "Animal rescue organization" means an individual or group of individuals who, with or without salary or...
• Section 4:19-15.2 - Dog Licensing, Tag; Exemptions.
  2.Any person who shall own, keep or harbor a dog of licensing age shall annually or every third year, in accordance with a 3-year...
• Section 4:19-15.2a - Evidence Of Inoculation With Rabies Vaccine Or Certification Of Exemption; Requirement For License
  No municipal clerk or other official designated by the governing body of any municipality to license dogs therein shall grant any such license and...
• Section 4:19-15.3 - Application, Renewal Of Dog License; Fee; Exemptions.
  3.The person applying for the license and registration tag shall pay the fee fixed or authorized to be fixed in section 12 of this...
• Section 4:19-15.3a - Staggered Expiration Of Licenses, Prorated Fees
  4. Subsequent to the effective date of P.L.1982, c.203, the provisions of any law to the contrary notwithstanding: a. All annual licenses required pursuant...
• Section 4:19-15.3b - Additional Fee; Dog Of Reproductive Age Without Permanent Alteration Of Reproductive Capacity; Disposition
  a. In addition to the fee charged pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1941, c. 151 (C. 4:19-15.3) and forwarded to the Department of Health...
• Section 4:19-15.3c - Additional Fee For Dogs; Disposition
  In addition to the fee charged pursuant to section 3 of P.L.1941, c.151 (C.4:19-15.3) and forwarded to the Department of Health pursuant to section...
• Section 4:19-15.4 - Time For Applying For License
  The owner of any newly-acquired dog of licensing age or of any dog which attains licensing age, shall make application for license and registration...
• Section 4:19-15.5 - Application For Dog License, Information Requested, Preservation
  5.The application shall state the breed, sex, age, color and markings of the dog for which license and registration are sought, whether it is...
• Section 4:19-15.6 - Dogs Brought Into State
  Any person who shall bring or cause to be brought into this State any dog licensed in another State for the current year, and...
• Section 4:19-15.7 - Removing Tag From Dog Without Owner's Consent; Attaching Tag To Another Dog
  No person, except an officer in the performance of his duties shall remove a registration tag from the collar of any dog without the...
• Section 4:19-15.8 - Licensing Of Kennel, Pet Shop, Shelter, Pound.
  8. a. Any person who keeps or operates or proposes to establish a kennel, a pet shop, a shelter or a pound shall apply...
• Section 4:19-15.9 - License Fees For Kennels And Pet Shops; No Fee For Shelter Or Pound
  The annual license fee for a kennel providing accommodations for ten or less dogs shall be ten dollars ($10.00) and for more than ten...
• Section 4:19-15.10 - Kennels, Pet Shops, Shelters Or Pounds; Permitting Dogs To Go Off Premises
  No dog kept in a kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound shall be permitted off such premises, except on leash or in a crate...
• Section 4:19-15.11 - Disposition Of Fees Collected
  License fees and other moneys collected or received under the provisions of sections 3, 8, 9 and 16 of this act, except registration tag...
• Section 4:19-15.12 - Fee For Dog License.
  12. a. The governing body of each municipality may, by ordinance, fix the sum to be paid annually for a dog license and each...
• Section 4:19-15.13 - List Of Licensed Kennels, Pet Shops, Shelters And Pounds
  The clerk or other official designated to license dogs in the municipality shall forward to the State Department of Health a list of all...
• Section 4:19-15.14 - Rules And Regulations For Kennels, Pet Shops, Shelters And Pounds
  The State Department of Health shall, within six months of the approval of this act and with the co-operation and assistance of the State...
• Section 4:19-15.16 - Unclaimed Dogs Or Other Animals To Be Euthanized, Offered For Adoption.
  16. a. The certified animal control officer appointed by the governing body of the municipality shall take into custody and impound any animal, to...
• Section 4:19-15.16a - Rules, Regulations Concerning Training, Educational Qualifications For Animal Control Officers.
  3. a. The Commissioner of Health shall, within 120 days after the effective date of P.L.1983, c.525, and pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act,"...
• Section 4:19-15.16b - Appointment Of Certified Animal Control Officer.
  4.The governing body of a municipality shall, within three years of the effective date of P.L.1983, c.525, appoint a certified animal control officer who...
• Section 4:19-15.16c - Powers, Authority Of Certified Animal Control Officer.
  8. A certified animal control officer authorized pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1983, c.525 (C.4:19-15.16b) shall have the power and authority, within the jurisdiction...
• Section 4:19-15.16d - Forwarding Of Copy Of Complaint, Summons, Arrest Warrant Or Report.
  9. A certified animal control officer who signs a complaint, issues a summons, makes an arrest, or otherwise acts pursuant to his authority pursuant...
• Section 4:19-15.17 - Seizure Of Dogs, Going On Premises For
  Any officer or agent authorized or empowered to perform any duty under this act is hereby authorized to go upon any premises to seize...
• Section 4:19-15.18 - Interfering With Persons Performing Duties Under Act
  No person shall hinder, molest or interfere with anyone authorized or empowered to perform any duty under this act. L.1941, c. 151, p. 502,...
• Section 4:19-15.19 - Violations Of Act Or Rules; Penalty.
  19.Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person who violates or who fails or refuses to comply with sections 2, 4, 6, 7,...
• Section 4:19-15.20 - Penalty To Be Paid To Plaintiff; Disposition.
  20.Any penalty recovered in an action brought under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the plaintiff therein. When the plaintiff is...
• Section 4:19-15.21 - Courts Of Jurisdiction, Summary Hearing, Process
  21. The Superior Court and the municipal courts shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine in a summary manner proceedings for violations of any...
• Section 4:19-15.23 - Refusal To Pay Judgment; Confinement In Jail
  The court shall cause a defendant who refuses or neglects to pay forthwith the amount of a judgment rendered against him and the costs...
• Section 4:19-15.27 - Act Inapplicable To Veterinarians' Establishments
  No provision of this act shall be construed to apply to any establishment wherein or whereon dogs are received or kept for diagnostic, medical,...
• Section 4:19-15.28 - Statutes Repealed
  Sections 4:19-10, 4:19-11, 4:19-12, 4:19-13, 4:19-14, 4:19-15, 40:52-5, 40:52-6 of the Revised Statutes are hereby repealed. L.1941, c. 151, p. 506, s. 28.
• Section 4:19-15.29 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect November first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one. L.1941, c. 151, p. 506, s. 29.
• Section 4:19-15.30 - "Pet Sterilization Pilot Program."
  3. a. The Department of Health shall develop and establish a pilot program to be known as the "Pet Sterilization Pilot Program." The pilot...
• Section 4:19-15.31 - Exceptions To Sterilization Requirement For Adopted Animals.
  4. a. Pursuant to the pilot program established under section 3 of P.L.2011, c.142 (C.4:19-15.30), a person may adopt and remove a cat or...
• Section 4:19-15.32 - Impounded Cat, Dog, Search For Owner Prior To Release To Adopter, Euthanization.
  5. a. When a cat or dog is put in the custody of and impounded with a shelter, pound, or kennel operating as a...
• Section 4:19-15.33 - Registry Of Animal Rescue Organizations, Facilities.
  6. a. The Department of Health shall establish a registry of animal rescue organizations and their facilities in the State. Any animal rescue organization...
• Section 4:19-16 - Liability Of Owner Regardless Of Viciousness Of Dog
  The owner of any dog which shall bite a person while such person is on or in a public place, or lawfully on or...
• Section 4:19-17 - Findings, Declarations
  The Legislature finds and declares that certain dogs are an increasingly serious and widespread threat to the safety and welfare of citizens of this...
• Section 4:19-18 - Definitions
  2. As used in this act: "Animal control officer" means a certified municipal animal control officer or, in the absence of such an officer,...
• Section 4:19-19 - Impoundment Of Dog
  An animal control officer shall seize and impound a dog when the officer has reasonable cause to believe that the dog: a. attacked a...
• Section 4:19-20 - Notification Of Owner Of Dog; Hearing
  4. a. The animal control officer shall notify the municipal court and the municipal health officer immediately that he has seized and impounded a...
• Section 4:19-21.1 - Settlement Agreements, Immunity Of Municipality
  12. Notwithstanding any provision in P.L.1989, c.307 (C.4:19-17 et seq.) to the contrary, the municipality and the owner of the dog may settle and...
• Section 4:19-22 - Dog Declared Vicious By Municipal Court; Conditions
  6. a. The municipal court shall declare the dog vicious if it finds by clear and convincing evidence that the dog: (1) killed a...
• Section 4:19-23 - Dog Declared Potentially Dangerous; Conditions.
  7. a. The municipal court shall declare a dog to be potentially dangerous if it finds by clear and convincing evidence that the dog:...
• Section 4:19-24 - Registration Of Potentially Dangerous Dog; Conditions
  8. If the municipal court declares the dog to be potentially dangerous, it shall issue an order and a schedule for compliance which, in...
• Section 4:19-25 - Appeal Of Decision
  9. The owner of the dog, or the animal control officer in the municipality in which the dog was impounded, may appeal any final...
• Section 4:19-26 - Liability Of Owner For Cost Of Impounding, Destroying Dog; Rabies Testing
  10. a. If a dog is declared vicious or potentially dangerous, and all appeals pertaining thereto have been exhausted, the owner of the dog...
• Section 4:19-27 - Hearing On Subsequent Actions Of Dog
  11. If the municipal court finds that the dog is not vicious or potentially dangerous, the municipal court shall retain the right to convene...
• Section 4:19-28 - Obligations Of Owner Of Potentially Dangerous Dog
  12. The owner of a potentially dangerous dog shall: a. comply with the provisions of P.L.1989, c.307 (C.4:19-17 et seq.) in accordance with a...
• Section 4:19-29 - Violation By Owner; Fine, Seizure, Impoundment Of Dog
  13. The owner of a potentially dangerous dog who is found by clear and convincing evidence to have violated this act, or any rule...
• Section 4:19-30 - Municipality To Register, Identify Potentially Dangerous Dogs; Publicize Phone Numbers To Report Violations
  14. Each municipality shall: a. issue a potentially dangerous dog registration number and red identification tag along with a municipal potentially dangerous dog license...
• Section 4:19-31 - Municipality To Establish Fee For Potentially Dangerous Dog License
  Every municipality may, by ordinance, fix the sum to be paid annually for a potentially dangerous dog license and each renewal thereof, which sum...
• Section 4:19-32 - Monthly Inspection To Verify Compliance
  The animal control officer shall inspect the enclosure and the owner's property at least monthly to determine continuing compliance with paragraphs (2) and (3)...
• Section 4:19-33 - Statewide System For Registration Of Potentially Dangerous Dogs
  The department shall promulgate regulations establishing a uniform Statewide system for municipal registration of potentially dangerous dogs. The regulations shall assign each municipality or...
• Section 4:19-34 - Actions Subject To "New Jersey Tort Claims Act"
  Any action undertaken pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be an exercise of a government function and shall be...
• Section 4:19-35 - Fines, Fees, Used For Enforcement By Municipalities
  All fines and fees collected or received by the municipality pursuant to sections 13 and 15 of this act shall be deposited in a...
• Section 4:19-36 - Act To Supersede Inconsistent Local Laws
  The provisions of this act shall supersede any law, ordinance, or regulation concerning vicious or potentially dangerous dogs, any specific breed of dog, or...
• Section 4:19-37 - Exemptions For Dogs Used For Law Enforcement Purposes
  The provisions of this act shall not apply to dogs used for law enforcement activities. L.1989, c.307, s.22.
• Section 4:19-38 - Debarking Silencing Of Dog, Certain Circumstances; Third Degree Crime
  1.A person who surgically debarks or silences a dog, or causes the surgical debarking or silencing of a dog, for reasons other than to...
• Section 4:19-39 - Duly Licensed Veterinarian Permitted To Debark, Silence Dog; Penalty
  2.No person other than a duly licensed veterinarian may surgically debark or silence a dog. A person who violates this section shall be guilty...
• Section 4:19-40 - Seizure, Forfeiture Of Dog At Time Of Arrest Of Violator
  3. a. A dog that has been surgically debarked or silenced may be seized at the time of arrest of a person charged with...
• Section 4:19-41 - Statement Filed By Veterinarian.
  4.Whenever a duly licensed veterinarian surgically debarks or silences a dog, the veterinarian shall prepare and file a written statement with the Department of...
• Section 4:19-42 - Issuance Of License, Determination As To Whether Dog Surgically Debarked, Silenced
  5. a. No municipal clerk or other official designated by the governing body of any municipality to license dogs therein shall grant any such...
• Section 4:19-43 - Information Provided To Prospective Owner
  6.An owner, keeper or harborer of a dog that has been surgically debarked or silenced shall, prior to selling or donating the dog, inform...
• Section 4:19a-1 - Program; Purpose
  The department shall establish and implement an Animal Population Control Program (hereinafter referred to as the "program" ). The purpose of this program shall...
• Section 4:19a-2 - Eligibility
  3. In order to be eligible to participate in the program, an owner of a dog or cat shall be eligible for, and participate...
• Section 4:19a-3 - Submission Of Animal For Spaying Or Neutering; Proof Of Eligibility; Consent Form; Fee; Disposition
  Any person submitting a dog or cat, pursuant to the provisions of this act, for spaying or neutering, as the case may be, shall:...
• Section 4:19a-4 - Veterinarians; Participation In Program; Application; Reimbursement For Animal Sterilization Procedure And Presurgical Immunization
  a. Any licensed veterinarian of this State may participate in the program upon filing with the commissioner an application therefor, on forms prescribed by...
• Section 4:19a-5 - Animal Population Control Fund
  6. a. The commissioner may solicit and accept funds from any public or private source to help carry out the provisions of P.L.1983, c.172...
• Section 4:19a-6 - Unretrieved Animal; Final Disposition
  Any licensed veterinarian of this State participating in the program shall provide for the final disposition of an unretrieved animal in the manner provided...
• Section 4:19a-7 - Violations; Penalties; Enforcement
  8. Any person who knowingly: a. Falsifies proof of eligibility for, or participation in, any of the programs enumerated in section 3 of this...
• Section 4:19a-8 - Rules Or Regulations
  The commissioner shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c. 410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), adopt any rules or regulations necessary to carry out...
• Section 4:19a-9 - Annual Report
  Not later than one year following the effective date of this act, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit a report to the Governor,...
• Section 4:19a-10 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health; b. "Department" means the Department of Health. L.1983, c. 180, s. 1,...
• Section 4:19a-11 - Pilot Clinic For Spaying, Neutering; Fees
  a. There is established in the department a pilot clinic for the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats to determine the practicability and...
• Section 4:19a-12 - Consent Form; Retrieval Of Animal; Abandonment
  a. Any person submitting a dog or cat for spaying or neutering pursuant to this pilot program shall sign a consent form certifying that...
• Section 4:19a-13 - Fee Adjustment; Recommendation
  Not less than 180 days subsequent to the establishment of the pilot clinic, the commissioner may recommend to the Legislature any adjustment to the...
• Section 4:19a-14 - Acceptance Of Funds; Pilot Clinic Fund
  a. The commissioner may accept funds from any public or private source to help carry out the purposes of this act. b. All fees...
• Section 4:19a-15 - Report; Recommendations
  Not later than 1 year following the effective date of this act, the commissioner shall submit a written report to the Legislature detailing the...
• Section 4:19a-16 - Domestic Companion Animal Council
  1. a. There shall be established in, but not of, the Department of Health, a Domestic Companion Animal Council, which shall consist of 12...
• Section 4:19a-17 - Duties Of Council
  2. The Domestic Companion Animal Council shall organize as soon as practicable after appointment of its members. The council shall: a. Consult with and...
• Section 4:20-1 - Sufficiency Of Fences In General
  A fence shall be deemed lawful, subject to the provisions of section 4:20-2 of this title, if four feet and two inches high measuring...
• Section 4:20-2 - Sufficiency Of Partition Fences
  A fence set in the line of partition between persons either of whom shall improve his adjoining lands shall, in addition to compliance with...
• Section 4:20-3 - Partition Fences Of Barbed Wire
  Fences between the lands of adjoining landowners constructed of barbed wire or wire on which barbs or points are strung or fastened shall not...
• Section 4:20-4 - Gates As Part Of Partition Fence
  Swinging gates erected as a part of a partition fence between adjoining lands shall be considered a lawful fence if they are four feet...
• Section 4:20-5 - Sufficiency Of Ditches As Fences In Meadows
  Ditches and drains made in or through salt marshes and meadows for fencing and draining them, which are five feet wide and three feet...
• Section 4:20-6 - Sufficiency As Fences Of Things Equivalent Thereto
  Brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks and hedges, or other matter or thing equivalent to a fence as provided in this article, may be adjudged lawful...
• Section 4:20-7 - Duty To Make And Maintain Portion Of Partition Fence
  Where the lands of any 2 or more persons shall join each other and 1 or more of them are using said lands for...
• Section 4:20-8 - Failure To Make And Maintain Portion Of Partition Fence
  When a person after due notice shall fail to make or amend and maintain his part or proportion of a partition fence as required...
• Section 4:20-9 - Apportioning Of Partition Fence For Erection And Maintenance
  The place where a partition fence is or shall be made, between adjoining lands both used for the pasturage or the keeping of animals,...
• Section 4:20-10 - Specification Of Time For Making Partition Fence
  When two of the township committee shall determine the parts or shares of any partition fence to be made under the provisions of this...
• Section 4:20-11 - Placing Partition Fence Where Parties Disagree
  To avoid the difficulty that may arise touching the placing of a partition fence when the parties cannot agree thereupon, the persons proposing to...
• Section 4:20-12 - Placing And Apportioning Partition Fence When Line Is Private Road Or Watercourse
  When lands belonging to or occupied by different persons and subject to be fenced, are bounded upon or divided from each other by a...
• Section 4:20-13 - Placing And Apportioning Partition Fence When Line Is Township Boundary
  When lands belonging to different persons are bounded on the division line between 2 townships, 1 person shall be taken from the township committee...
• Section 4:20-14 - Failure Of Members Of Township Committee To Agree
  When two of the township committee, called as provided in this chapter to determine any matter in difference, cannot agree in their determination, they...
• Section 4:20-15 - Failure Of Member Of Township Committee To Act; Penalty
  A member of a township committee who upon due notice, and the request of any person interested to perform any of the duties assigned...
• Section 4:20-16 - Fees Of Township Committee Members
  A member of a township committee shall be allowed, for the time he is engaged in the performance of duties under this chapter, one...
• Section 4:20-17 - Notice As Prerequisite To Removal Of Partition Fence
  When a partition fence is made between 2 persons as directed in this chapter and either of them shall cease to use his adjoining...
• Section 4:20-18 - Agreements Respecting Partition Fences
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall render void a written agreement respecting the making or maintenance of partition fences.
• Section 4:20-19 - Registration Of Agreements And Certificates; Fee
  The clerk of a township shall provide, at the expense of the township, a book for the purpose of registering written agreements of persons...
• Section 4:20-21 - Failure Of Clerk To Register; Penalty
  A township clerk who shall fail to enter or register an agreement or certificate such as is referred to in section 4:20-19 of this...
• Section 4:20-22 - Damages By Animals Breaking Through Lawful Fences
  When horses, cattle or sheep shall get over, creep through or break down any fence declared lawful by this chapter, the owner of the...
• Section 4:20-23 - Impounding And Sale Of Such Animals
  The person injured as provided in section 4:20-22 of this title may take and impound the animals found trespassing or doing damage, as therein...
• Section 4:20-24 - Impounding And Sale Where No Public Pound
  Where there is no public pound kept within the township, the person damaged by animals trespassing as provided in section 4:20-22 of this title...
• Section 4:20-25 - Molestation Of Gate In Partition Fence; Penalty; Damages And Impounding Of Animals
  A person who shall stake, shore or leave open or insecure, or cut, break, pull down or destroy or in any way leave a...
• Section 4:20-26 - Effect Of Failure To Maintain Fences On Damages And Impounding
  An owner or possessor of land who shall fail to make and keep in good repair the fence or fences about his own land...
• Section 4:20-27 - Effect Of Failure To Maintain Portion Of Partition Fence
  A person to whom a part or share of a partition fence is assigned to make or amend and maintain as provided in this...
• Section 4:20-28 - Injuring Animals Trespassing For Want Of Sufficient Fence
  An owner or possessor of land who is damaged for want of a lawful and sufficient fence and who shall hurt or cause any...
• Section 4:20-29 - Damages To Animals By Barbed Wire Partition Fences
  A person who, without the consent of the adjoining landowner, shall erect a partition fence of barbed wire or wire on which barbs or...
• Section 4:20-30 - Fences In Highway For Preservation Of Hedges
  A person who shall plant a hedge for fencing upon the line of a public highway three rods or more wide, may erect and...
• Section 4:20-31 - Ploughing Or Digging Close To Hedge Prohibited
  Neither the officer, board or body having control of the highways nor any other person shall plough, dig or otherwise turn up or remove...
• Section 4:20-32 - Violations Of Sections 4:20-30 And 4:20-31; Penalty; Damages
  Any person who shall offend against the provisions of sections 4:20-30 and 4:20-31 of this Title, or shall willfully injure, dig up, or otherwise...
• Section 4:21-1 - Right To Impound Animals Running At Large
  A person may drive or convey to the public pound in a township, horses, cattle, sheep or swine found running at large in the...
• Section 4:21-2 - Right To Impound Trespassing Animals
  A person who shall discover stray horses, cattle, sheep or swine upon his improved lands in a township may drive or convey them to...
• Section 4:21-3 - Interference With Impounding Of Animals; Penalty
  A person, having charge of horses, cattle, sheep or swine found running at large in the streets or highways or trespassing upon the improved...
• Section 4:21-4 - Right To Drive Animals Over Streets And Highways
  Nothing in this article shall debar a person from driving horses, cattle, sheep or swine along or over the streets or highways of a...
• Section 4:21-5 - Fee For Taking Stray Or Trespassing Animals To Pound
  For bringing horses, cattle, sheep or swine to the pound as authorized by sections 4:21-1 and 4:21-2 of this title, the person bringing them...
• Section 4:21-6 - Poundkeeper's Fees
  The poundkeeper shall have two dollars and fifty cents per head for letting in, two dollars and fifty cents per head for letting out...
• Section 4:21-7 - Sale Of Impounded Animals And Disposition Of Proceeds
  If the owner of cattle, horses, sheep or swine impounded as provided in sections 4:21-1 and 4:21-2 of this title, shall not pay the...
• Section 4:21b-1 - Establishment And Operation To Provide Services For Alteration Of Reproductive Capacity; Ordinance; Fees
  Any municipality individually or two or more municipalities jointly may, by ordinance, provide for the establishment and operation of a clinic to provide services...
• Section 4:21b-2 - Notarized Authorization By Owner For Consent And Agreement To Hold Harmless
  Any animal which is presented at such clinic for alteration shall be accompanied by a notarized authorization signed by the owner thereof consenting to...
• Section 4:21b-3 - Terms And Conditions For Maintenance Of Animal While In Custody Of Clinic
  Any municipality or municipalities enacting an ordinance as authorized by this act shall further provide for the regulation of such clinic with respect to...
• Section 4:22-11.1 - Definitions Relative To Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals.
  1.As used in this chapter: "Agent" means a member duly appointed as an agent by the board of trustees of a county society for...
• Section 4:22-11.2 - N. J. S. P. C. A Continued To Coordinate Function Of County Societies.
  2. a. (1)The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is continued as a parent corporation for the purposes of coordinating...
• Section 4:22-11.3 - Establishment Of Bylaws, Standards, Guidelines.
  3.Within 120 days after the effective date of P.L.2005, c.372 (C.4:22-11.1 et al.), the board of trustees of the New Jersey Society for the...
• Section 4:22-11.4 - Duties, Responsibilities Of Board Of Trustees.
  4.The board of trustees of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall: a.Establish any bylaws or regulations as may...
• Section 4:22-11.5 - Fees For Chartering County Societies.
  5.The board of trustees of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may establish reasonable fees for chartering county societies...
• Section 4:22-11.6 - Continuation Of Existing County Societies.
  6. a. Every county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals that is in existence on the date of enactment of P.L.2005, c.372...
• Section 4:22-11.7 - Duties, Responsibilities Of County Society.
  7.A county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals continued or established in accordance with section 6 of P.L.2005, c.372 (C.4:22-11.6) shall: a.Elect...
• Section 4:22-11.8 - Completion Of Training Courses By Officers, Agents.
  8. a. Each county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shall require that its humane law enforcement officers and agents satisfactorily complete...
• Section 4:22-11.9 - Certain Persons Ineligible For Service; Criminal History Record Background Check.
  9. a. No person shall serve as a trustee, officer, or humane law enforcement officer or agent of, or hold any other position of...
• Section 4:22-11.10 - Application For Commission As Humane Law Enforcement Officer.
  10. a. An application to be commissioned as a humane law enforcement officer shall be submitted to the Superintendent of State Police by the...
• Section 4:22-11.11 - Training Course For Animal Protection Law Enforcement.
  11. a. The Police Training Commission, in collaboration with the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, shall develop or approve...
• Section 4:22-11.12 - Effort To Assist Humane Law Enforcement Officers, Agents By Governmental Entities.
  12. All State, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies and all county and municipal health agencies shall, upon request, make every reasonable effort to...
• Section 4:22-11.13 - Annual Audit Of Societies.
  13. In addition to any requirement imposed by P.L.1994, c.16 (C.45:17A-18 et seq.) or any other law, the New Jersey Society for the Prevention...
• Section 4:22-12 - Use Of Badge By Nonmember; Petty Disorderly Persons Offense
  4:22-12. A person not a member of a duly organized or incorporated society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, who shall use the...
• Section 4:22-13 - Right To Amend Charter To Include Enumerated Powers And Purposes.
  4:22-13. A county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals may amend its charter or certificate of incorporation as originally enacted or filed...
• Section 4:22-15 - Definitions.
  4:22-15. As used in this article: "Animal" or "creature" includes the whole brute creation. "Bodily injury" means physical pain, illness or any impairment of...
• Section 4:22-16 - Permitted Activities
  4:22-16. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit or interfere with: a. Properly conducted scientific experiments performed under the authority of...
• Section 4:22-16.1 - Adoption Of Standards, Rules, Regulations For Treatment Of Domestic Livestock
  1. a. The State Board of Agriculture and the Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and within six...
• Section 4:22-17 - Cruelty; Certain Acts, Crime; Degrees.
  4:22-17. a. It shall be unlawful to: (1)Overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, overwork, abuse, or needlessly kill a living animal or creature; (2)Cause or...
• Section 4:22-18 - Carrying Animal In Cruel, Inhumane Manner; Disorderly Persons Offense
  4:22-18. A person who shall carry, or cause to be carried, a living animal or creature in or upon a vehicle or otherwise, in...
• Section 4:22-19 - Failure To Care For, Destruction Of Impounded Animals; Penalties; Collection
  4:22-19. A person who shall: a.Impound or confine, or cause to be impounded or confined, in a pound or other place, a living animal...
• Section 4:22-19.1 - Chamber Or Device To Induce Hypoxia; Dismantlement And Removal
  Within 30 days of the effective date of this act, any chamber or device used to induce hypoxia through decompression or in any other...
• Section 4:22-19.2 - Dismantlement And Removal Of Decompression Chamber Or Device; Offense
  Within 30 days of the effective date of this act, any chamber or device used to induce hypoxia through decompression or in any other...
• Section 4:22-19.3 - Neuromuscular Blocking Agents Prohibited
  Whenever any dog, cat, or any other domestic animal is to be destroyed, the use of succinylcholine chloride, curare, curariform drugs, or any other...
• Section 4:22-19.4 - Penalty
  A person who violates this act shall be subject to a penalty of $25.00 for the first offense and $50.00 for each subsequent offense,...
• Section 4:22-20 - Abandoning Disabled Animal To Die In Public Place; Disorderly Persons Offense
  4:22-20. a. A person who shall abandon a maimed, sick, infirm or disabled animal or creature to die in a public place, shall be...
• Section 4:22-21 - Offering For Sale Horse Unfit For Work; Disorderly Persons.
  4:22-21. A person who shall receive or offer for sale a horse that is suffering from abuse or neglect, or which by reason of...
• Section 4:22-22 - Offering Diseased Animal For Sale; Crime Of Fourth Degree
  4:22-22. A person who shall: a. Willfully sell, or offer to sell, use, expose, or cause or permit to be sold or offered for...
• Section 4:22-23 - Use Of Bird As Target; Disorderly Persons Offense, $25 Fine.
  4:22-23. A person who shall: a.Use a live pigeon, fowl or other bird for the purpose of a target, or to be shot at...
• Section 4:22-24 - Animal Fighting Crimes.
  4:22-24. A person who shall: a.Keep, use, be connected with or interested in the management of, or receive money for the admission of a...
• Section 4:22-25.1 - Motorist Hitting Domestic Animal To Stop; Report
  Each person operating a motor vehicle who shall knowingly hit, run over, or cause injury to a cat, dog, horse or cattle shall stop...
• Section 4:22-25.2 - Violations; Petty Disorderly Persons Offense
  2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 1 of P.L.1939, c.315 (C.4:22-25.1) shall be guilty of a petty disorderly...
• Section 4:22-25.3 - Sale, Barter Of Products Made From Dog Or Cat Fur; Prohibited
  1.Any person who sells, barters, or offers for sale or barter, at wholesale or retail, the fur or hair of a domestic dog or...
• Section 4:22-25.4 - Sale, Barter Of Dog Or Cat Flesh Or Products For Human Consumption; Disorderly Persons Offense
  2.Any person who sells, barters, or offers for sale or barter, at wholesale or retail, for human consumption, the flesh of a domestic dog...
• Section 4:22-25.5 - Slaughter, Transport Of Horses For Human Consumption; Disorderly Persons Offense.
  1. a. Any person who knowingly slaughters a horse for human consumption commits a disorderly persons offense. b.Any person who sells, barters, or offers...
• Section 4:22-26 - Penalties For Various Acts Constituting Cruelty.
  4:22-26. A person who shall: a. (1) Overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, overwork, abuse, or needlessly kill a living animal or creature, or cause...
• Section 4:22-26.1 - Confiscation, Forfeiture Of Animal
  1. An officer or agent of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or a certified animal control officer, may...
• Section 4:22-28 - Civil, Criminal Actions Separate.
  4:22-28. The indictment of a person under the provisions of this article, or the holding of a person to bail to await the action...
• Section 4:22-29 - Jurisdiction For Action For Penalty.
  4:22-29. The action for the penalty prescribed in R.S.4:22-26 shall be brought: a.In the Superior Court; or b.In a municipal court of the municipality...
• Section 4:22-32 - Enforcement And Collection Of Penalties; Warrant.
  4:22-32. Penalties for violations of R.S.4:22-26 shall be enforced and collected in a summary manner under the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274...
• Section 4:22-33 - Security For Appearance Where Defendant Nonresident Or Desires Continuance
  Where a defendant is a nonresident of the county in which the alleged offense was committed, or where a defendant desires an adjournment or...
• Section 4:22-44 - Arrests With, Without Warrant.
  4:22-44. Any humane law enforcement officer of the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or of a county society for...
• Section 4:22-45 - Notice To State, District Society Of Arrest; Exceptions.
  4:22-45. Where an arrest is made under the provisions of this article by a constable, sheriff, undersheriff or police officer in a locality where...
• Section 4:22-46 - Search Warrants; Issuance
  Any court having jurisdiction of violations of the law in relation to cruelty to animals may issue search warrants to enter and search buildings...
• Section 4:22-47 - Warrentless Arrest For Fighting Or Baiting Offenses.
  4:22-47. A sheriff, undersheriff, constable, police officer, certified animal control officer who has been properly authorized pursuant to section 4 of P.L.1983, c.525 (C.4:19-15.16b),...
• Section 4:22-48 - Forfeiture, Sale Of Seized Animals
  4:22-48. The person seizing animals, creatures, implements or appliances as authorized in section 4:22-47 of this Title, shall, within 24 hours thereafter, apply to...
• Section 4:22-48.1 - Owner To Bear Expenses
  a. A person authorized to take possession of a living animal or creature pursuant to R.S. 4:22-47 may provide such shelter, care, and treatment...
• Section 4:22-48.2 - Owner Of Confiscated Animal Responsible For Certain Costs
  1. The costs of sheltering, caring for, or treating any animal that has been confiscated from a person arrested pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 4:22-50 - Care Of Animal When Person In Charge Arrested
  When a person arrested under the provisions of this article, is in charge of an animal at the time of the arrest, with or...
• Section 4:22-50.1 - Petition For Animal Pound Receivership
  When the owner or operator of an animal pound or shelter is arrested pursuant to the provisions of article 2 of chapter 22 of...
• Section 4:22-50.2 - Appointment; Notice, Hearing
  The court may appoint a responsible person as a receiver upon a finding that the appointment is in the best interests of the animals...
• Section 4:22-50.3 - Powers Of Receiver; Compensation
  The receiver shall be the custodian of the animals at the pound or shelter and shall have control over all real and personal property...
• Section 4:22-50.4 - Presentation, Settlement Of Accounts
  The court shall require the filing, at periodic intervals, of reports of action taken by the receiver and of accounts itemizing the revenues and...
• Section 4:22-50.5 - Termination Of Receivership
  The receiver, owner, or operator may make a motion to terminate the receivership on grounds that the conditions complained of have been eliminated or...
• Section 4:22-50.6 - Pounds Subject To Act
  This act applies to pounds and shelters as defined and licensed pursuant to P.L. 1941, c. 151 (C.4:19-15.1 et seq.); to pounds and places...
• Section 4:22-51 - Supplying Necessary Food To Animals Impounded By Another
  When a living animal or creature is impounded or confined as provided in section 4:22-19 of this title, and shall continue to be without...
• Section 4:22-52 - Seizure And Sale Of Vehicle Transporting Animals In Cruel Manner
  The person arresting the person offending against the provisions of section 4:22-18 of this title shall take charge of the vehicle and its contents,...
• Section 4:22-53 - Sale Of Animals Abandoned In Disabled Condition
  An animal or creature abandoned in a maimed, sick, infirm or disabled condition, if fit for further use, may be advertised and sold in...
• Section 4:22-54 - Destruction Of Animals Found In Disabled Condition
  When an animal or creature is found on the highway or elsewhere, whether abandoned or not, in a maimed, sick, infirm or disabled condition,...
• Section 4:22-55 - Payment, Disposition Of Fines, Penalties, Moneys, Imposed And Collected.
  4:22-55. a. Except as provided pursuant to subsection b. of this section, all fines, penalties and moneys imposed and collected under the provisions of...
• Section 4:22-56 - Spca, Municipality, County, Animal Control Officer Not Liable For The Other.
  10. Although a municipality and the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or a county society may share in the...
• Section 4:22-57 - Notice To Commissioner Of Persons Ineligible To Be Certified Animal Control Officers.
  3. a. For the purposes of establishing the list of persons not eligible to be certified animal control officers as required pursuant to subsections...
• Section 4:22-58 - Definitions Relative To Use Of Animals In Product Testing.
  1.For the purposes of this act: "Animal" means any vertebrate other than humans; "Committee" means the federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of...
• Section 4:22-59 - Animal Testing Prohibited Under Certain Circumstances.
  2. a. When conducting any product testing in the State, no manufacturer or contract testing facility shall use a traditional animal test method for...
• Section 4:22-60 - Exclusive Remedy For Enforcement.
  3.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, to the contrary, the exclusive remedy for enforcing this act...
• Section 4:22a-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act: a. "Department" means the Department of Health. b. "Disposal" or "dispose" means permanent interment or inurnment, above or below...
• Section 4:22a-2 - 5-acre Minimum
  A pet cemetery which commences operations on or after the effective date of this act and which provides for the permanent, below-ground interments of...
• Section 4:22a-3 - Notarized Dedication
  The owner of property who dedicates this property to pet cemetery purposes on or after the effective date of this act shall do so...
• Section 4:22a-4 - Disclosure Of Status
  The owner or operator of a pet cemetery, before accepting a pet for disposal, or otherwise reserving or selling a right of disposal for...
• Section 4:22a-5 - Removal Of Dedication
  Once a pet cemetery is dedicated pursuant to the provisions of this act, the dedication shall not be removed unless the dedication is removed...
• Section 4:22a-6 - Subsequent Liens Subordinate
  All mortgages and other liens of any nature, hereafter contracted, placed, or incurred upon property which has been, and was at the time of...
• Section 4:22a-7 - Maintenance Fees
  The owner or operator of a pet cemetery shall charge a person seeking to dispose of a pet, at the option of the customer,...
• Section 4:22a-8 - $12,000 Minimum In Trust Fund
  A pet cemetery which commences operations on or after the effective date of this act shall, prior to the acceptance of any moneys for...
• Section 4:22a-9 - Pet Disposal Form
  Each person who gives a pet to a veterinarian or a pet cemetery for disposal purposes shall choose a method of disposal for the...
• Section 4:22a-10 - Compliance With Instructions
  a. A pet cemetery shall dispose of a pet, received thereby for disposal purposes, in compliance with the instructions on the pet disposal form...
• Section 4:22a-11 - Registration
  a. Every pet cemetery and disposal facility in this State shall register with the department on a form prescribed by the department. The department...
• Section 4:22a-12 - Violation; Penalty
  Any person who violates the provisions of this act, or any rules or regulations adopted hereunder, is liable to a civil penalty of not...
• Section 4:22a-13 - Forms; Rules, Regulations
  The department, after consultation with the Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, shall adopt the forms, rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure...
• Section 4:23-1 - Penalties To Which Article Applies
  All penalties incurred for the violation of any provisions of this title shall be collected as provided by this article, except as to sections...
• Section 4:23-2 - Jurisdiction
  4:23-2. Jurisdiction of proceedings to collect penalties collectible under the provisions of this article is vested in the Superior Court and the municipal courts,...
• Section 4:23-6 - Enforcement And Collection Of Penalties
  In proceedings to enforce and collect penalties under this article, the court may proceed in a summary manner pursuant to the Penalty Enforcement Law...
• Section 4:23-10 - Penalties Paid Into State Treasury
  All penalties which are recoverable under the provisions of this article shall when recovered and after payment of costs be paid into the state...
• Section 4:23-11 - Penalties To Which Article Applies
  The penalties hereinafter enumerated in this section shall be collected as provided by this article: a. For violations of or failure to comply with...
• Section 4:23-12 - Jurisdiction
  4:23-12. Jurisdiction of proceedings to collect penalties collectible under the provisions of this article is vested in the Superior Court and the municipal courts...
• Section 4:23-14 - Failure To Pay Penalty; Commitment
  If any person fails to pay the penalty imposed, together with all costs, the court shall commit him to the common jail of the...
• Section 4:23-15 - Arrest Without Warrant For Violation In View Of Officer
  For a violation of any provision for which a penalty is prescribed which is collectible under this article, done within the view of any...
• Section 4:23-18 - Penalties Paid Into State Treasury
  All penalties which are recoverable under the provisions of this article shall when recovered, and after payment of costs, be paid into the state...
• Section 4:24-1 - Legislative Policy Declared
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the legislature to provide for the conservation of the soil and soil resources of this...
• Section 4:24-1.1 - Prevention Of Damage By Floodwater Or Sediment; Conservation Of Water For Agricultural Purposes
  The purposes of soil conservation and the control and prevention of soil erosion to be furthered by the State Soil Conservation Committee and of...
• Section 4:24-2 - Words And Phrases Defined
  Wherever used or referred to in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: a. "District" or "soil conservation district" means...
• Section 4:24-2.1 - Transfer Of Functions, Powers And Duties To Department Of Agriculture
  The State Soil Conservation Committee and all of its functions, powers and duties are hereby transferred to the Department of Agriculture. L.1959, c. 129,...
• Section 4:24-3 - Committee Established; Membership; Records; Seal; Hearings; Rules And Regulations
  There is hereby established, to serve as an agency of the State and to perform the functions conferred upon it in this chapter, the...
• Section 4:24-3.1 - Election Of Members
  The first election for members of the State Soil Conservation Committee, established under this act, shall be held by the State Soil Conservation Committee...
• Section 4:24-4 - Administrative Officer And Employees; Legal Services; Co-operative Agreements
  The State Soil Conservation Committee may employ, subject to the rules of the State Civil Service Commission, a qualified administrative officer and such technical...
• Section 4:24-5 - Organization; Term Of Members; Quorum; Expenses; Surety Bonds For Employees; Records; Audit
  The committee shall designate its chairman, and may, from time to time, change such designation. A member of the committee shall hold office so...
• Section 4:24-6 - Powers And Duties Of Committee
  In addition to the duties and powers hereinafter conferred upon the state soil conservation committee, it shall have the following duties and powers: a....
• Section 4:24-6.1 - Review And Approval, Modification Or Rejection Of Decisions
  The committee may, on its own motion or at the request of any person aggrieved by any decision by a local district, review and...
• Section 4:24-17.1 - Public Hearings
  Whenever the supervisors of a soil conservation district which has been created for more than 1 year determine it advisable to divide the district...
• Section 4:24-17.2 - Resolution Requesting Approval; Procedure Upon Approval
  Following such public hearing the supervisors of the district or districts may adopt a resolution requesting approval by the State Soil Conservation Committee of...
• Section 4:24-17.3 - New Supervisors; Appointment; Time Of Taking Office
  Upon the effective date of a division of a district or the combination of 2 or more districts, the terms of office of the...
• Section 4:24-17.4 - Continuance Of Contracts, Liabilities, Regulations And Other Matters; Assumption By New District
  The State Soil Conservation Committee shall make such provisions as are necessary for the continuance in effect of all contracts, liabilities, regulations and other...
• Section 4:24-17.5 - County And Multi-county Soil Conservation Districts; Creation
  The whole area of the State shall, at all times, be covered by a soil conservation district. Each soil conservation district shall cover the...
• Section 4:24-17.6 - Appropriation Of Funds By Counties
  Any board of chosen freeholders may appropriate such funds as it deems necessary to the soil conservation district serving that county for the purpose...
• Section 4:24-17.7 - Legal Services To District By Attorney General
  The Attorney General, on his own initiative, or the respective county counsel, with the approval of the board of chosen freeholders, may provide any...
• Section 4:24-18 - Governing Body Of District; Supervisors; Appointment
  The governing body of the district shall consist of five supervisors, appointed by the State Soil Conservation Committee. The five supervisors shall be legal...
• Section 4:24-19 - Supervisors; Chairman; Term Of Office; Quorum; Per Diem
  The supervisors shall designate a chairman and may, from time to time, change such designation. The term of office of each supervisor shall be...
• Section 4:24-20 - Officers And Employees; Information To State Committee
  The supervisors may employ, subject to the approval of the state committee, technical experts, and such other officers, agents, and employees, permanent and temporary,...
• Section 4:24-20.1 - Soil Conservation District To Maintain Internet Website Or Webpage; Contents.
  1.The soil conservation district shall maintain either an Internet website or a webpage on the municipality's or county's Internet website. The purpose of the...
• Section 4:24-21 - Surety Bonds For Officers And Employees; Records; Annual Audit
  The supervisors may provide for the execution of surety bonds for any employees and officers who shall be intrusted with funds or property; shall...
• Section 4:24-22 - District A Governmental Subdivision And Body Corporate; Enumeration Of Powers Of Districts And Supervisors
  4:24-22. A soil conservation district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this State, and a public body...
• Section 4:24-22.1 - Site Plan For Leaf Composting Facility; Annual Inspection
  a. Every Soil Conservation District shall develop a site plan for each proposed leaf composting facility to be located on agricultural or horticultural land,...
• Section 4:24-22.2 - Conditions For Operation Of Leaf Composting Facility
  Each leaf composting facility located on agricultural or horticultural land, or on lands owned or operated by a recognized academic institution, shall operate in...
• Section 4:24-23 - Supervisors To Formulate Regulations; Public Hearings; Submission To State Committee; Objections By Landowners
  The supervisors of any district shall have authority to formulate regulations governing the use of lands within the district in the interest of conserving...
• Section 4:24-24 - Amendment, Etc., Of Regulations
  Any owner of land within such district may at any time file a petition with the supervisors asking that any or all of the...
• Section 4:24-25 - Provisions Which May Be Included In Regulations
  Regulations to be adopted by the supervisors under the provisions of this article may include: a. Provisions requiring the construction of terraces, terrace outlets,...
• Section 4:24-26 - Regulations To Be Uniform; Printing Of Copies
  The regulations shall be uniform throughout the territory comprised within the district except that the supervisors may classify the lands within the district with...
• Section 4:24-27 - Authority Of Supervisors; Suit For Damages By Landowner For Violations
  The supervisors shall have authority to go upon any lands within the district to determine whether land-use regulations adopted under the provisions of article...
• Section 4:24-28 - Nonobservance Of Land-use Regulations; Action
  Where the supervisors of any district shall find that any of the provisions of land-use regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of article...
• Section 4:24-30 - Members; Appointment, Term, Removal, Etc., Expenses
  Where the supervisors of any district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall adopt land-use regulations in accordance with the provisions of article...
• Section 4:24-31 - Rules By Board; Organization; Meetings; Oaths And Witnesses; Records
  The board of adjustment shall adopt rules to govern its procedures, which rules shall be in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The...
• Section 4:24-32 - Petition By Landowner To Board For Variance In Land-use Regulations; Procedure
  Any landowner may file a petition with the board of adjustment alleging that there are great practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship in the way...
• Section 4:24-33 - Review Of Order Of Board
  Any petitioner aggrieved by an order of the board granting or denying, in whole or in part, the relief sought of the supervisors of...
• Section 4:24-34 - Duty Of State Agencies, Counties, Etc., To Co-operate
  It shall be the duty of all agencies of this state which shall have jurisdiction over, or be charged with the administration of, any...
• Section 4:24-39 - Short Title
  This act may be cited and referred to as the "Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act." L.1975, c. 251, s. 1, eff. Jan. 1,
• Section 4:24-40 - Legislative Findings
  The Legislature finds that sediment is a source of pollution and that soil erosion continues to be a serious problem throughout the State, and...
• Section 4:24-41 - Definitions.
  3.For the purposes of this act, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning: a."Application for development" means a proposed subdivision of land, site...
• Section 4:24-42 - Standards For Control Of Soil Erosion And Sedimentation; Promulgation, Amendment And Repeal
  The committee shall have the power, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, to formulate, promulgate,...
• Section 4:24-42.1 - Adoption Of Standards.
  2.The committee shall, within one year after the date of enactment of P.L.2010, c.113 (C.4:24-42.1 et al.), and in consultation with the New Jersey...
• Section 4:24-43 - Certification Of Plan By District; Development Of Projects
  Approval of an application for development for any project by the State, any county, municipality, or any instrumentality thereof shall be conditioned upon certification...
• Section 4:24-44 - Certification Of Plan; Criteria; Notice
  The district shall certify such plan if it meets the standards promulgated by the committee pursuant to this act. The district shall provide written...
• Section 4:24-45 - Limitation On Time For Grant Or Denial Of Certification
  The district shall grant or deny certification within a period of 30 days of submission of a complete application unless, by mutual agreement in...
• Section 4:24-46 - Fees
  The district shall adopt a fee schedule and collect fees from applicants for the certification of plans and for on-site inspections of the execution...
• Section 4:24-47 - Stop-construction Order; Failure To Comply With Certified Plan
  The district or the municipality may issue a stop-construction order if a project is not being executed in accordance with a certified plan. L.1975,...
• Section 4:24-48 - Exempt Municipalities
  Any municipality, which adopts an ordinance that conforms to the standards promulgated pursuant to this act within 12 months of their promulgation and obtains...
• Section 4:24-49 - Certificate Of Occupancy For Project; Conditions For Issuance
  No certificate of occupancy for a project shall be issued by a municipality or any other public agency unless there has been compliance with...
• Section 4:24-50 - County Planning Board As Agent For District
  In those counties where the district does not maintain its central office, the board of freeholders may, by resolution, direct the county planning board...
• Section 4:24-51 - Cooperation With And Authorization To Receive Financial Aid From Governmental Units Or Private Sources
  The districts and the committee are authorized to cooperate and enter into agreements with any Federal, State or local agency to carry out the...
• Section 4:24-52 - State Aid
  The committee is authorized to make grants of State aid to districts and to municipalities to carry out the purposes of this act. L.1975,...
• Section 4:24-53 - Violations; Injunction; Penalty; Enforcement
  15. If any person violates any of the provisions of this act, any standard promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this act, or fails...
• Section 4:24-54 - Liberal Construction
  This act shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose and intent thereof. L.1975, c. 251, s. 16, eff. Jan. 1, 1976.
• Section 4:24-55 - Severability
  If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and...
• Section 4:27-1 - Short Title.
  1. Sections 1 through 24 of this act shall be known, and may be cited, as the "New Jersey Aquaculture Development Act." L.1997,c.236,s.1.
• Section 4:27-2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Aquaculture.
  2. The Legislature finds and declares that aquaculture is the fastest growing segment of agriculture in the nation; and that the development of an...
• Section 4:27-3 - Definitions Relative To Aquaculture.
  3. As used in sections 1 through 24 of this act: "Aquaculture" means the propagation, rearing, and subsequent harvesting of aquatic organisms in controlled...
• Section 4:27-4 - Office Of Aquaculture Coordination.
  4. There is established in the Department of Agriculture the Office of Aquaculture Coordination. The office shall, in consultation with the Department of Environmental...
• Section 4:27-5 - Aquaculture Advisory Council.
  5. a. There is established in the Department of Agriculture an Aquaculture Advisory Council which shall consist of 13 voting and two non-voting members....
• Section 4:27-6 - Aquaculture Considered Component Of Agriculture.
  6. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, aquaculture shall be considered a component of agriculture in the State, and aquacultured...
• Section 4:27-7 - Interagency Memoranda Of Agreement Concerning Implementation Of Aquaculture Development Plan.
  7. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Commerce...
• Section 4:27-8 - Policies For Use Of Aquaculture Leases.
  8.Within 180 days after the effective date of P.L.1997, c.236 (C.4:27-1 et al.), the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture, in...
• Section 4:27-9 - Interagency Memorandum Of Agreement To Expand Current Leasing Programs.
  9. The Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture, after consultation with the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall establish an interagency memorandum of...
• Section 4:27-10 - Review Of Laws, Rules, Regulations Pertinent To Aquaculture.
  10. a. The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, the Fish and Game Council, the Marine Fisheries Council and...
• Section 4:27-11 - Review Of Laws, Rules, Regulations Pertinent To Predation Problems.
  11. The Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, the Pinelands Commission as it affects the pinelands area designated pursuant...
• Section 4:27-12 - Aquaculture Sites Not Designated Freshwater Wetland, Conditions.
  12. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, an aquaculture site, for which all appropriate permits required by law have been...
• Section 4:27-13 - Aquaculture Sites Not Designated Coastal Wetland, Conditions.
  13. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, an aquaculture site, for which all appropriate permits required by law have been...
• Section 4:27-14 - Agriculture Programs Applicable To Aquaculture.
  14. Notwithstanding any law, or regulations to the contrary, all State grant and loan, financial, and insurance programs that apply to agriculture as of...
• Section 4:27-15 - Aquaculture Statistics, Reporting Assistance Programs.
  15.The Department of Agriculture: a.in consultation with the Aquaculture Technology Transfer Center, the Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the Department of Environmental Protection, shall implement...
• Section 4:27-16 - Management Practices For Control Of Soil Erosion, Sedimentation.
  16. The State Soil Conservation Committee in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall develop, pursuant to the...
• Section 4:27-17 - Licensure Of Possession, Ownership Of Aquacultural Organisms.
  17. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall establish, pursuant to the "Administrative...
• Section 4:27-18 - Aquatic Health Management Plan.
  18. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall develop and adopt, within one...
• Section 4:27-19 - Comprehensive Animal Waste Management Program.
  19. The Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, shall adopt, within one year of the effective date of this...
• Section 4:27-20 - Aquaculture Component For Model Planning And Zoning Ordinances.
  20. The Office of State Planning established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1985, c.398 (C.52:18A-201), in consultation with the Pinelands Commission as it affects...
• Section 4:27-21 - Review Of Worker's Compensation Package Coverages.
  21. The Department of Labor, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the aquaculture industry, shall review worker's compensation package coverages to assess...
• Section 4:27-22 - Development, Implementation Of Information Campaign.
  22. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Aquaculture Technology Transfer...
• Section 4:27-23 - Development Of Mechanisms For Providing Tax Credits, Reduced Loan Payments.
  23. The Department of Commerce and Economic Development and the Aquaculture Advisory Council, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, shall develop mechanisms for...
• Section 4:27-24 - Review Of Product Liability Insurance.
  24. The Department of Banking and Insurance, in consultation with the Aquaculture Advisory Council, shall review product liability insurance within the State and determine...
• Section 4:27-25 - Construction Of Act.
  36. Except as provided in section 3 of P.L.1979, c.111 (C.13:18A-3) as amended by section 35 of P.L.1997, c.236, nothing in this act shall...

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