New Jersey Statutes

Titles / AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS / Sections

• Chapter 1

• 1
  Department constituted a principal department in executive branch
  
  
• 2
  Personnel of department
  
  
• 3
  Offices and equipment
  
  
• 4
  Membership; terms; expenses
  
  
• 4.1
  Removal; members; secretary
  
  
• 5
  Annual convention to elect members
  
  
• 6
  Agricultural convention delegates.
  
  
• 7
  Vacancies
  
  
• 8
  Certification to governor of names of members elect
  
  
• 9
  President and vice-president of board
  
  
• 10
  Secretary and assistant secretary of board
  
  
• 11
  Rules for control of department
  
  
• 11.1
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 11.2
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
• 12
  Assignment of functions and duties; supervision
  
  
• 13
  Appointment and compensation of officers and employees
  
  
• 14
  Annual report by board to legislature
  
  
• 15
  Appointment; functions in general
  
  
• 16
  Powers and duties respecting employees and as secretary of board
  
  
• 17
  Creation and functions
  
  
• 18
  Authority and duties of directors of divisions
  
  
• 19
  Annual reports by chiefs to secretary
  
  
• 20
  Ascertainment and dissemination of information
  
  
• 20.1
  Reciprocal agreements with other states covering shipments of nursery stock
  
  
• 21
  Arrangement of farmers' meetings, children's contests, and premiums for products
  
  
• 21.1
  Food production program; award to schools whose students participate
  
  
• 21.2
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 21.3
  Appropriation
  
  
• 21.4
  Effective date
  
  
• 21.5
  Powers of department; quarantines
  
  
• 21.6
  Cooperation with other agencies
  
  
• 21.7
  Rules and regulations regarding seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod plugs, and grass stolons
  
  
• 21.8
  Inspection, grading and certification of seeds and tubers
  
  
• 21.9
  Fees for inspection, grading and certification
  
  
• 21.10
  Approval of firms desiring to cooperate with State Board
  
  
• 21.11
  Offering and exposing seeds, tubers, grass sod, grass sod plugs, and grass stolons for sale
  
  
• 21.12
  Debts incurred by, damage inflicted or contracts broken by cooperating firms
  
  
• 21.13
  Violations
  
  
• 21.14
  Withholding certification
  
  
• 21.15
  Reduction of population of certain species of blackbirds
  
  
• 21.16
  Co-operation with state and federal agencies
  
  
• 22
  Acceptance and control of donations or bequests
  
  
• 22.1
  Federal grants
  
  
• 22.2
  Grants, awards for agricultural promotion
  
  
• 23
  Courts authorized to grant writs and orders
  
  
• 24
  Division of dairy industry established; director
  
  
• 25
  Powers and duties of director of milk control transferred
  
  
• 26
  Personnel; compensation; duties
  
  
• 27
  Transfer of employees from Milk Control Board
  
  
• 28
  Civil service, pension and retirement rights not affected
  
  
• 29
  Milk Control Board and existing office of director of milk control abolished
  
  
• 30
  Appropriations, records and property transferred
  
  
• 31
  Orders, rules and regulations
  
  
• 32
  "Director of Milk Control" or "Director of the Office of Milk Industry" in laws, contracts or documents
  
  
• 33
  Pending actions or proceedings; orders or recommendations
  
  
• 34
  Appeal
  
  
• 35
  Stay of rule or order
  
  
• 36
  Record on appeal
  
  
• 37
  Additional evidence on appeal; modification of decision by director
  
  
• 38
  Conduct of appeal; disposition on appeal
  
  
• 39
  Repeal
  
  
• 40
  Short title
  
  
• 41
  Effective date
  
  
• 42
  Establishment; appointment of State Chemist; employees
  
  
• 43
  Powers and duties
  
  
• 43.1
  Transfer and civil service status of employees of chemist and seed analyst of New Jersey agricultural experiment station
  
  
• 44
  Establishment; appointment of State Seed Analyst; employees
  
  
• 45
  Powers and duties
  
  
• 46
  Legislative findings
  
  
• 47
  Coordinator of agricultural development; appointment; powers and duties; term of office; compensation
  
  
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• Chapter 1A

• 2
  Reimbursement for expenses
  
  
• 3
  Organization of council; chairman
  
  
• 4
  Study and recommendations
  
  
• 5
  Access to information, data, and findings applicable to rural conditions
  
  
• 6
  Equipment and staff
  
  
• 7
  Annual report
  
  
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• Chapter 1B

• 1
  Short title
  
  
• 2
  Legislative findings
  
  
• 3
  Additional legislative findings
  
  
• 4
  Definitions
  
  
• 5
  Agricultural preserve demonstration program; establishment; purpose
  
  
• 6
  Administration; operational responsibility
  
  
• 7
  Conduct on voluntary basis; prohibition of eminent domain
  
  
• 8
  Implementation of program
  
  
• 9
  Steering committee
  
  
• 10
  Joint legislative oversight committee
  
  
• 11
  Statement of development easement; attachment to and recordation with deed
  
  
• 12
  Actions to enforce development easements
  
  
• 13
  Conveyance of development easement; conditions
  
  
• 14
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 15
  Severability
  
  
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• Chapter 1C

• 1
  Short title
  
  
• 2
  Legislative findings
  
  
• 3
  Definitions.
  
  
• 4
  State agriculture development committee; establishment; membership; terms; vacancies; compensation; meetings; minutes; staff
  
  
• 5
  Powers of committee
  
  
• 6
  Duties of committee
  
  
• 7
  Additional duties of committee
  
  
• 8
  Use of appropriations
  
  
• 9
  Commercial farm owners, operators; permissible activities.
  
  
• 9.1
  Rules, regulations adopted by State Agriculture Development Committee
  
  
• 9.2
  Committee to develop rules, regulations; BPU to provide technical assistance.
  
  
• 10
  Commercial agricultural operation not a nuisance, compliance with practices.
  
  
• 10.1
  Filing of complaint; process.
  
  
• 10.2
  Appeal of decision.
  
  
• 10.3
  New rule adoption process.
  
  
• 10.4
  Rules, regulations, standards.
  
  
• 11
  Short title
  
  
• 12
  Legislative findings and declarations
  
  
• 13
  Definitions
  
  
• 14
  County boards
  
  
• 15
  Duties
  
  
• 16
  Powers
  
  
• 17
  Subregional agricultural retention board; membership; dissolution
  
  
• 18
  Agricultural development area; recommendation and approval
  
  
• 19
  Land acquisition or construction in agriculture development area; notice of intent; review; hearing
  
  
• 20
  Petition for farmland preservation program; approval; agreement between board and landowner
  
  
• 21
  Municipally approved program
  
  
• 22
  Documentation of municipally approved program
  
  
• 23
  Zoning of land in program
  
  
• 24
  Development easement, soil, water conservation project; application by landowners in farmland preservation program
  
  
• 25
  Public body may not exercise right of eminent domain; begin construction
  
  
• 26
  Filing of complaint against agricultural operation
  
  
• 27
  Agricultural activities exempt from emergency restrictions
  
  
• 28
  Acceptable construction standard for farm structure
  
  
• 29
  Length of program; termination; inclusion of additional landowners
  
  
• 30
  Withdrawal of land; taxation
  
  
• 31
  Development easement purchases.
  
  
• 31.1
  Fee simple absolute purchases.
  
  
• 31.2
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 32
  Conveyance of easement following purchase; conditions, restrictions; payment
  
  
• 32.1
  Special permit to allow a commercial nonagricultural activity on certain land; conditions; definitions.
  
  
• 32.2
  Special permit to allow a personal wireless service facility on certain land; conditions; definitions.
  
  
• 32.3
  Special permit, application fee, grounds for suspension, revocation.
  
  
• 32.4
  Certain generation facilities, structures, equipment permitted on preserved farmland.
  
  
• 32.5
  Approval required.
  
  
• 32.6
  Report to Governor, Legislature, committees.
  
  
• 33
  Enforcement of conditions or restrictions
  
  
• 34
  Persons acquiring developmental easement; sale to board
  
  
• 35
  Appraisal of value of donation
  
  
• 36
  Pinelands area, Highlands Region, farmland preservation.
  
  
• 37
  Joint legislative oversight committee; duties
  
  
• 37.1
  Acquisition of property for farmland preservation purposes.
  
  
• 38
  Acquisition of land in name of State
  
  
• 39
  Sale of fee simple absolute interest in land; notice
  
  
• 40
  Certificate acknowledging landowner compliance
  
  
• 41
  Priority
  
  
• 42
  Acquired land held in name of State; sale, conditions
  
  
• 43
  Appropriation
  
  
• 43.1
  Farmland preservation planning incentive grant program.
  
  
• 44
  Findings, declaration
  
  
• 45
  Inventory of land suitable for agricultural production
  
  
• 46
  Priority
  
  
• 47
  Rules, regulations
  
  
• 48
  Competitive bid; covenant
  
  
• 49
  Short title
  
  
• 50
  Definitions.
  
  
• 51
  State Transfer of Development Rights Bank established
  
  
• 52
  Powers of board.
  
  
• 53
  Establishment, maintenance of Development Potential Transfer Registry
  
  
• 54
  Sale, exchange, conveyance of development potential
  
  
• 55
  Report to Governor, Legislature
  
  
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• Chapter 2

• 15
  Fur farming; supervision and control
  
  
• 16
  Llama designated as agricultural livestock
  
  
• 17
  Ostrich, emu, rhea designated agricultured livestock.
  
  
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• Chapter 2A

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Release of, or allowing nutria to escape from captivity prohibited
  
  
• 3
  Registration and certificate required to raise and breed nutria; fee; form and contents of application
  
  
• 4
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 5
  Inspection of premises; revocation of certificate
  
  
• 6
  Penalties; enforcement of act
  
  
• 7
  Registration of present breeders; time
  
  
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• Chapter 3

• 1
  Annual educational program and exhibits
  
  
• 2
  Rules; problems near populous areas
  
  
• 11.10
  Applicability
  
  
• 11.11
  Definitions
  
  
• 11.12
  Establishment of standards, grades and size-weight classes; rules and regulations
  
  
• 11.13
  Marking containers; signs and devices; term "fresh eggs" ; fraudulent or misleading representations; letters and numerals
  
  
• 11.14
  Delivery of invoice to retailer or institutional consumer; contents; filing
  
  
• 11.15
  Temperature and humidity for keeping eggs; clean packaging; sanitary regulations; applicability of other laws
  
  
• 11.16
  Stop sale orders
  
  
• 11.17
  Confiscation of eggs
  
  
• 11.18
  Complaint; warrant
  
  
• 11.19
  Confiscation and disposal in event of violation; disposition of proceeds of sale
  
  
• 11.20
  Delivery of eggs to owner for sale or distribution in compliance with law
  
  
• 11.21
  Inspection and examination of eggs, equipment, facilities or records
  
  
• 11.22
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 11.23
  Violations, penalties; enforcement
  
  
• 11.23a
  Violations; hearing; penalty
  
  
• 11.24
  Injunctive relief
  
  
• 11.25
  Other remedies
  
  
• 11.26
  Repeal
  
  
• 11.27
  Cooperation by secretary with other agencies or associations
  
  
• 11.28
  Severability
  
  
• 12
  Permit for sale of baby chicks
  
  
• 13
  Application for permit; contents; fee; discretion in granting or denying permit
  
  
• 14
  Labeling of crates, coops, etc.
  
  
• 15
  Statement to Secretary of Agriculture by person who conducted sale
  
  
• 16
  Definitions
  
  
• 17
  Violation of act or regulations as misdemeanor
  
  
• 18
  Penalties; recovery; jurisdiction
  
  
• 19
  Regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 4

• 20.1
  Short title
  
  
• 20.2
  Enforcing official
  
  
• 20.3
  Definitions of words and terms
  
  
• 20.4
  Registration; fee
  
  
• 20.5
  Labeling
  
  
• 20.6
  Misbranding
  
  
• 20.7
  Adulteration
  
  
• 20.8
  Prohibited acts
  
  
• 20.9
  Inspection fees and reports
  
  
• 20.10
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 20.11
  Inspection, sampling, and analysis
  
  
• 20.12
  Detained commercial feeds
  
  
• 20.13
  Penalties
  
  
• 20.14
  Cooperation with other entities
  
  
• 20.15
  Publication
  
  
• 20.16
  Constitutionality
  
  
• 21
  Attaching tags on feed bags by metal fasteners
  
  
• 22
  Pasteurization before delivery for feeding purposes
  
  
• 23
  Penalty for violation
  
  
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• Chapter 5

• 1
  Declaring epidemic; quarantine; serums; other preventive measures
  
  
• 2
  Diseases not specifically designated
  
  
• 2.1
  Rules, regulations relative to certain fees for animal health programs
  
  
• 2.2
  "Agriculture Fee Program Revolving Fund"
  
  
• 3
  Penalty for violating orders of board
  
  
• 4
  Notice to department by veterinarians and others of existence or appearance of disease
  
  
• 5
  Failure to give notice; punishment
  
  
• 6
  Quarantine of infected or exposed animals; regulations
  
  
• 7
  Inoculation of herd exposed to disease
  
  
• 8
  Buying or selling affected or exposed animals a misdemeanor
  
  
• 9
  Slaughter and burial of infected animals in certain cases
  
  
• 10
  Appraisement of and compensation for animals slaughtered
  
  
• 11
  Disposal of dead or slaughtered animals; disposal for food a misdemeanor
  
  
• 12
  Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals
  
  
• 13
  Authority of department
  
  
• 14
  Posting and publication of notice
  
  
• 15
  Co-operation with federal bureau
  
  
• 16
  Transportation of animals within, into or from quarantined area
  
  
• 17
  Penalty
  
  
• 18
  Terms defined
  
  
• 19
  Tests at instance of department of agriculture, health department or owner
  
  
• 20
  Expense of inspection and tests
  
  
• 21
  Quarantine and slaughter of condemned animals
  
  
• 22
  Time and supervision of slaughter
  
  
• 23
  Agreements respecting valuation of condemned animals
  
  
• 24
  Appraisement prior to testing
  
  
• 25
  Appraisement where no agreement reached
  
  
• 26
  Report of salvage or proceeds of slaughtered animal
  
  
• 27
  Indemnity receivable by owner of slaughtered animal
  
  
• 28
  Indemnity, conditions
  
  
• 29
  Payment of indemnity
  
  
• 30
  Priority of payment to certain owners
  
  
• 31
  Marking affected animals
  
  
• 32
  Issuance of certificate for healthy cattle
  
  
• 33
  Co-operation with federal bureau
  
  
• 34
  Obtaining information as to owners and cattle in given area
  
  
• 35
  Co-operation by department with local organizations
  
  
• 36
  Appropriations by municipalities and counties
  
  
• 37
  Testing at instance of majority of owners in area, representing three-fourths of cattle
  
  
• 38
  Testing and quarantine at instance of three-fourths of owners within area
  
  
• 39
  Testing all cattle within area at instance of ninety per cent of owners
  
  
• 40
  Assistance by owners in testing
  
  
• 41
  Notice to owner of special quarantine
  
  
• 42
  Bringing in or removing cattle from area adopting plan
  
  
• 43
  Interference with test or mark of identification
  
  
• 44
  Quarantine and slaughter of reactors
  
  
• 45
  Disposal of reactors or removal of cattle from quarantine
  
  
• 46
  Transportation of cattle classed as reactors or suspicious
  
  
• 47
  Standard of tests; report of tests
  
  
• 48
  Rejection of tests or alleged tests; official test
  
  
• 49
  Marking cattle passing test or declared suspicious
  
  
• 50
  Marking condemned cattle
  
  
• 51
  Loss of rights by owner on failure to comply with article
  
  
• 52
  Certification of area as modified accredited area
  
  
• 53
  Failure to have retest; penalty
  
  
• 53.2
  Quarantine
  
  
• 53.3
  Disinfecting quarters of infected animals
  
  
• 53.4
  Cattle consigned to auction markets
  
  
• 54
  Tuberculin test as prerequisite to importation; exceptions; health certificate; quarantine
  
  
• 57
  Standard for all tests
  
  
• 58
  Certificate accompanying cattle imported and display thereof
  
  
• 59
  Contents of certificate
  
  
• 61
  Tagging or marking cattle imported
  
  
• 62
  Notice to division of intention to import cattle
  
  
• 63
  Notice to division of arrival and location of cattle imported
  
  
• 64
  Where certificate is unsatisfactory
  
  
• 65
  Inspection of imported cattle prior to removal from destination; retest
  
  
• 67
  Importation contrary to article
  
  
• 69
  Importation for immediate slaughter
  
  
• 71
  Removal of cattle from stockyard or auction market
  
  
• 72
  Carriers to require certificates
  
  
• 73
  Recognition and employment of veterinarians
  
  
• 74
  Rules, regulations and orders; quarantine orders preventing entrance of diseased cattle
  
  
• 75
  Penalty for violating article or regulations
  
  
• 75.1
  Notice to Department of disease
  
  
• 75.2
  Concealing or transporting diseased animals
  
  
• 75.3
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 75.4
  Materials exposed to disease; disinfection or disposal
  
  
• 75.5
  Appraisal of animals to be slaughtered; indemnification of owner
  
  
• 75.6
  Appraisal of value of materials destroyed
  
  
• 75.7
  Appraisement where agreement cannot be reached
  
  
• 75.8
  Reports of appraisals
  
  
• 75.9
  Supervision of slaughtering and disinfection
  
  
• 75.10
  Disposal of animals killed
  
  
• 75.11
  Stockyards, cars and vessels, disinfection of; farms and privately owned premises
  
  
• 75.12
  Indemnification of owner for slaughtered animals or destroyed materials
  
  
• 75.13
  Funds from which payments are to be made
  
  
• 75.14
  Compliance by owner with laws and regulations as prerequisite to payment of claims by State
  
  
• 75.15
  Penalty for violations
  
  
• 93.21
  Definitions
  
  
• 93.22
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 93.23
  Program and agreements for control and eradication of disease
  
  
• 93.24
  Expense of inspection and test
  
  
• 93.25
  Certificate showing freedom from disease
  
  
• 93.26
  Failure of owner to comply with regulations or agreement
  
  
• 93.27
  Tests; standards
  
  
• 93.28
  Report of tests
  
  
• 93.29
  Marking tested or treated stock
  
  
• 93.30
  Interference with test or treatment or mark
  
  
• 93.32
  Agreement as to value of condemned animal; appraisement; compensation
  
  
• 93.33
  Report of sale; false statement; salvage; charges deductible
  
  
• 93.34
  Appraisement before test
  
  
• 93.35
  Appraisers; appointment; duties
  
  
• 93.36
  Slaughter of reactors
  
  
• 93.37
  Imported animals; conditions; indemnity
  
  
• 93.38
  Appraisement certificate; payment of indemnity
  
  
• 93.39
  Insufficiency of funds; order of payment
  
  
• 93.41
  Co-operation with local and federal authorities
  
  
• 93.42
  Penalty for violation
  
  
• 93.43
  Recovery of penalty; enforcement of imprisonment
  
  
• 93.44
  Appropriation
  
  
• 93.45
  Repeal
  
  
• 93.46
  Repeal
  
  
• 93.47
  Effective date of act
  
  
• 93.48
  Brucellosis tests
  
  
• 93.49
  Quarantine and slaughter of infected animals; orders; reports
  
  
• 93.50
  Purchase or sale without order prohibited
  
  
• 93.51
  Repealer
  
  
• 94
  Definitions
  
  
• 95
  Quarantine of receiving points or stations
  
  
• 96
  Proper facilities at receiving points, stations or other premises
  
  
• 97
  Sanitary condition at receiving points
  
  
• 98
  Receiving points, stations or other premises subject to regulations
  
  
• 99
  Importation of infected or exposed poultry or containers
  
  
• 100
  Transportation of infected or exposed poultry or containers
  
  
• 101
  Removal of exposed poultry for slaughter
  
  
• 102
  Disinfecting poultry houses and premises
  
  
• 103
  Disposition of dead or diseased poultry
  
  
• 104
  Co-operation with federal agencies
  
  
• 105
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 106
  Penalty for violating article
  
  
• 106.1
  Definitions
  
  
• 106.2
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 106.3
  Duties of Department of Agriculture
  
  
• 106.4
  Licenses; exceptions
  
  
• 106.5
  Treatment of garbage
  
  
• 106.6
  Transfer of licenses
  
  
• 106.7
  Application for license; fee; expiration date
  
  
• 106.8
  Issuance of license; investigation
  
  
• 106.9
  Notification of reasons for refusal to grant license
  
  
• 106.10
  Impeding or preventing inspections
  
  
• 106.11
  Frequency of inspections
  
  
• 106.12
  Examination of records
  
  
• 106.13
  Violations; issuance, restoration, revocation or suspension of licenses; hearings
  
  
• 106.14
  Penalties
  
  
• 106.15
  Jurisdiction
  
  
• 106.16
  Imprisonment upon failure to pay judgment
  
  
• 106.17
  Committee representing swine industry
  
  
• 106.18
  Effective date of license
  
  
• 106.19
  Municipal regulations
  
  
• 106.20
  Effective date
  
  
• 107
  Definitions
  
  
• 108
  License for sale or distribution
  
  
• 109
  Rules and regulations; revocation of license
  
  
• 110
  Permission to administer disease-producing substance
  
  
• 111
  Report of each sale and injection of tuberculin or mallein
  
  
• 112
  Penalty
  
  
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• Chapter 5A

• 20
  Definitions
  
  
• 21
  Disposal plant; license to operate or conduct; fees; rules and regulations
  
  
• 22
  Inspections
  
  
• 23
  Records
  
  
• 24
  Hauling and transporting carcasses of animals dead from disease
  
  
• 25
  Penalties; enforcement
  
  
• 26
  Rules and regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 6

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Study of outbreaks
  
  
• 3
  Infested colonies or apparatus as nuisance
  
  
• 4
  Investigation of apiaries
  
  
• 5
  Inspection of apiaries raising queen bees for sale
  
  
• 6
  Certification of apiaries raising queen bees for sale
  
  
• 7
  Notice to owner of diseased apiary
  
  
• 8
  Contents of notice and order for treatment
  
  
• 9
  Quarantine provision included in notice and order
  
  
• 10
  Type of hives required; seizure of other types as nuisances
  
  
• 11
  Compliance with orders; powers in case of noncompliance
  
  
• 12
  Keeping of infested bees; penalty
  
  
• 13
  Sale or removal of infested bees or materials; penalty
  
  
• 14
  Shipments of queen bees without certificate attached; penalty
  
  
• 15
  Requirements respecting importation of bees or used supplies; penalty
  
  
• 16
  Information as to number and location of colonies; penalty
  
  
• 17
  Penalty enforcement; hearing
  
  
• 18
  Right of entry to inspect; interference with officers
  
  
• 19
  Abandoned apiaries; written notice; steps to protect neighboring apiaries
  
  
• 20
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 21
  Rules, regulations relative to preservation of honey bee colonies.
  
  
• 22
  Violations; penalties, use.
  
  
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• Chapter 7

• 1
  Determining existence; declaring epidemics; quarantine
  
  
• 2
  Diseases and insects not designated in statutes
  
  
• 3
  Penalty for violating orders of board
  
  
• 4
  "Department" defined
  
  
• 5
  Importation or distribution of infested plants
  
  
• 6
  Keeping or distribution of plant material after notice of infestation
  
  
• 7
  Examination of nurseries and other establishments
  
  
• 8
  Treatment or destruction of diseased or suspected plants; prohibiting shipment
  
  
• 9
  Notices and orders by department and service thereof
  
  
• 10
  Notice to department of importation of plant material
  
  
• 11
  Inspection of imported plant material
  
  
• 12
  Issuance to prospective shippers of certificates of freedom from disease
  
  
• 13
  Right of entry to inspect; interference with inspectors
  
  
• 14
  Penalty for violation, recovery
  
  
• 14.1
  Disease public nuisance
  
  
• 14.2
  Control by state board of agriculture
  
  
• 14.3
  Right of entry
  
  
• 14.4
  No damages awarded for destroyed property
  
  
• 14.5
  Co-operative agreements with other bureaus
  
  
• 14.6
  Penalty for violations; jail for nonpayment
  
  
• 15
  Definitions
  
  
• 16
  Plants infested with insects likely to spread, as nuisance
  
  
• 17
  Ordering nuisances abated
  
  
• 18
  Penalty for failure to obey order
  
  
• 19
  Ordering destruction of plants
  
  
• 21
  Inspection of nurseries; fee
  
  
• 22
  Certificate of inspection
  
  
• 23
  Treatment and reinspection where inspection shows infestation
  
  
• 24
  Inspection as a prerequisite to sales, penalty
  
  
• 25
  Attaching certificate to goods delivered or shipped
  
  
• 26
  Misuse of certificate, penalty
  
  
• 29
  Shipment by nurseryman under certificate of stock grown elsewhere
  
  
• 30
  Certificate of inspection to accompany nursery stock shipped in
  
  
• 31
  Inspection of nursery stock entering state; disposition of infested stock
  
  
• 32
  Nursery stock shipped in unaccompanied by certificate
  
  
• 33
  Carriers to refuse transportation, penalty
  
  
• 34
  Inspection of fruit bearing trees or plants at request of grower
  
  
• 35
  Right to enter premises for inspection; interference or obstruction
  
  
• 36
  Declared a nuisance
  
  
• 37
  Inspection of lands and premises
  
  
• 38
  Measures to abate nuisance
  
  
• 39
  Notice of proposed action
  
  
• 40
  Right of entry to abate nuisance
  
  
• 41
  Tenant to notify landlord; penalty
  
  
• 42
  Interference with officers; penalty
  
  
• 43
  Disposal of cornstalks, corn stubble and weeds in infested areas
  
  
• 44
  Penalty for violations; jail for nonpayment
  
  
• 54
  Permitting Canada thistle to ripen; penalty
  
  
• 55
  Bringing into state hay or seeds containing Canada thistle; misdemeanor
  
  
• 56
  Selling manure containing Canada thistle; misdemeanor
  
  
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• Chapter 8

• 17.13
  Definitions
  
  
• 17.14
  Seed treated with harmful substance; label or tag
  
  
• 17.15
  Seed container labels
  
  
• 17.16
  Unlawful sale or transportation
  
  
• 17.17
  Other unlawful acts
  
  
• 17.17a
  Wholesale seedsmen or seed conditioner; registration
  
  
• 17.18
  Records and samples
  
  
• 17.19
  Applicability of sections 4:8-17.15 to 4:8-17.17
  
  
• 17.19a
  Inapplicability of act to seeds sold directly by grower
  
  
• 17.20
  Precautions to insure correct identity
  
  
• 17.21
  State seed analyst; agents
  
  
• 17.22
  Enforcement of act; sample, inspection and analysis of seeds
  
  
• 17.23
  Rules and regulations; formulation
  
  
• 17.24
  Subject matter of rules and regulations
  
  
• 17.25
  Examination and analysis of samples for public
  
  
• 17.26
  Right of entry by state seed analyst; "stop sale" orders; testing facilities; purity and germination tests
  
  
• 17.27
  Seizure of seeds; condemnation; disposition
  
  
• 17.28
  Injunction against violations
  
  
• 17.29
  Violations; penalties; prosecutions; hearings; injunctions
  
  
• 17.30
  Funds
  
  
• 17.31
  Repeal
  
  
• 17.32
  Short title
  
  
• 28
  Definitions
  
  
• 29
  Seller liability
  
  
• 30
  Civil action for violation
  
  
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• Chapter 8B

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Prohibition against sale or distribution of treated grain other than for seeding unless dyed or colored
  
  
• 3
  Statement of treatment
  
  
• 4
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 5
  Stop sale order; issuance and enforcement upon violation
  
  
• 6
  Confiscation of grain sold in violation of act; jurisdiction
  
  
• 7
  Warrant
  
  
• 8
  Disposition of seized grain
  
  
• 9
  Sale of seized grain; bond
  
  
• 10
  Violation; penalty
  
  
• 11
  Act not to limit powers of State Department of Health or State Commissioner of Health
  
  
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• Chapter 9

• 15.1
  Short title
  
  
• 15.2
  Administration of act
  
  
• 15.3
  Definitions.
  
  
• 15.4
  Adoption of definitions by regulations
  
  
• 15.5
  Necessity of license
  
  
• 15.6
  License fee
  
  
• 15.7
  Application; issuance; expiration
  
  
• 15.8
  Specialty fertilizers; furnishing of label on application for license
  
  
• 15.8a
  Requirements for specialty fertilizer; definitions.
  
  
• 15.9
  Soil conditioners; furnishing of label on application for license
  
  
• 15.10
  Commercial fertilizer label to set forth certain information
  
  
• 15.11
  Bulk distribution of fertilizer; statement of information
  
  
• 15.12
  Customer formulated mix; label requirements
  
  
• 15.13
  Labeling of specialty fertilizer.
  
  
• 15.13a
  Prohibited sales of fertilizer; definitions.
  
  
• 15.14
  Labeling of soil conditioner
  
  
• 15.15
  Bulk soil conditioners; statement of information
  
  
• 15.16
  Inspection fee
  
  
• 15.17
  Tonnage reports
  
  
• 15.18
  Comprehensive system of reporting; regulations
  
  
• 15.19
  Failure to file tonnage report or pay inspection fee; assessment
  
  
• 15.20
  Sales to intermediate distributors; filing of report and payment of fee
  
  
• 15.21
  Sampling and analysis by Department of Agriculture
  
  
• 15.22
  Method of analysis and sampling
  
  
• 15.23
  Determination of violations
  
  
• 15.24
  Deficiency; forwarding analysis report to licensee
  
  
• 15.25
  Deficiency in primary plant nutrients; penalties
  
  
• 15.26
  Determination and publication of value of primary plant nutrients
  
  
• 15.27
  Payment of penalties
  
  
• 15.28
  Judicial relief
  
  
• 15.29
  Deficiency; penalty prescribed by regulation
  
  
• 15.30
  Misbranding
  
  
• 15.31
  Adulterated products; prohibition against distribution
  
  
• 15.32
  Publication of information concerning distribution of fertilizers and soil conditioners and results of analyses
  
  
• 15.33
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 15.33a
  Fertilizer regulation
  
  
• 15.33b
  Cooperation encouraged
  
  
• 15.34
  Revocation, suspension or refusal of license
  
  
• 15.35
  Stop sale, use, or removal order
  
  
• 15.36
  Seizure and disposal of deficient products
  
  
• 15.37
  Injunction
  
  
• 15.38
  Violations; penalties
  
  
• 15.39
  Hearings
  
  
• 15.40
  Minor violations; warnings
  
  
• 15.41
  Exempt transactions
  
  
• 15.42
  Severability
  
  
• 15.43
  Record of sales of restricted commercial fertilizer.
  
  
• 15.44
  Report of suspect purchase, theft, loss by distributors.
  
  
• 15.45
  Immunity for refusal to sell, report of suspect purchases, certain circumstances.
  
  
• 21.1
  Short title
  
  
• 21.2
  Definitions
  
  
• 21.3
  Information affixed to each package of agricultural liming materials
  
  
• 21.4
  Requirements for sale of agricultural liming material
  
  
• 21.6
  License required; expiration
  
  
• 21.7
  Annual license fee
  
  
• 21.8
  Statement submitted by licensee
  
  
• 21.9
  Empowerment of State board, authorized agent
  
  
• 21.10
  Violations; penalties
  
  
• 21.11
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 21.12
  Issuance of stop sale, use, removal order
  
  
• 22
  Definitions
  
  
• 23
  Information on label of inoculants sold
  
  
• 24
  Annual statement filed with director
  
  
• 25
  Taking and analysis of samples; publication of results
  
  
• 26
  Rules regarding analyses and sales
  
  
• 27
  Free examination of samples
  
  
• 28
  Penalty for violations or interference
  
  
• 29
  Unmanufactured manure; sale or delivery unadulterated
  
  
• 30
  When unmanufactured manure deemed adulterated
  
  
• 31
  Sale or delivery of adulterated manure prohibited
  
  
• 32
  Representation on sale or delivery
  
  
• 33
  Sale by weight; adulteration of manure unlawful
  
  
• 34
  Importation of adulterated manure prohibited
  
  
• 35
  Misdemeanor; penalties
  
  
• 36
  Enforcement of law by Department of Weights and Measures; disposition of fines and penalties
  
  
• 37
  Severability of provisions; partial invalidity
  
  
• 38
  Composting, handling, etc. of animal wastes.
  
  
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• Chapter 10

• 1
  Definitions.
  
  
• 2
  Powers and duties of department
  
  
• 3
  Establishment of standards for grading and for receptacles
  
  
• 4
  Marking products to falsely indicate conformity to standard
  
  
• 5
  Use of outline of state on products; license; penalty
  
  
• 6
  Inspection and classification of products according to standards; fees
  
  
• 7
  Appeals from classification of products; fees
  
  
• 8
  Certificate of classification as evidence
  
  
• 9
  Disposition and use of fees collected
  
  
• 10
  Reports to department on products
  
  
• 11
  Right of entry
  
  
• 12
  Attendance and testimony of witnesses and production of documents
  
  
• 13
  Regulations
  
  
• 13.1
  Marketing of farm products; advertising
  
  
• 14
  Penalty for violations or interference
  
  
• 15
  Jurisdiction of action to recover penalty, application
  
  
• 16
  New Jersey Farm Products Publicity Fund authorized; deposit
  
  
• 17
  Disbursement of moneys; promoting sale of farm products; labels
  
  
• 18
  Official brands for agricultural products; registration as trade-mark
  
  
• 19
  Use of brands or marks
  
  
• 19.1
  "Made With Jersey Fresh" designated products.
  
  
• 20
  Regulations
  
  
• 21
  Printing of labels; license to use brand
  
  
• 22
  Affixing labels
  
  
• 23
  Receipts from sale or use of labels; expenditure
  
  
• 24
  Advisory committee
  
  
• 25
  Secretary of Agriculture may restrain unauthorized use of State brand
  
  
• 25.1
  "Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week."
  
  
• 25.2
  Rules, regulations; development of program.
  
  
• 26
  Short title
  
  
• 27
  Definitions
  
  
• 28
  Operator's license; fee; inspection of facilities; compliance with act
  
  
• 29
  Packing or repacking permit
  
  
• 30
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 31
  Prohibited acts
  
  
• 32
  Storage in other states
  
  
• 33
  Penalty; injunctive relief
  
  
• 34
  Definitions
  
  
• 35
  Potatoes; prohibited acts; packaging requirements
  
  
• 36
  Re-use of packages
  
  
• 37
  Evidence of offer or transport for sale
  
  
• 38
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 39
  Enforcement of act by secretary; powers
  
  
• 39.1
  Violations; hearings; assessment of penalty; effect of payment
  
  
• 39.2
  Cooperation and agreements with other agencies and private associations
  
  
• 40
  Violations; penalties; jurisdiction and venue; injunctive relief
  
  
• 41
  Appropriation
  
  
• 42
  Partial invalidity
  
  
• 43
  Short title
  
  
• 44
  Purpose
  
  
• 45
  Definitions
  
  
• 46
  Secretary; powers and duties; marketing program; hearing; notice; administration
  
  
• 47
  Reports by producers
  
  
• 48
  Reports and information as basis for program
  
  
• 49
  Lists of producers
  
  
• 50
  Confidentiality of reports by producers
  
  
• 51
  Findings of secretary; basis
  
  
• 52
  Advisory council; members
  
  
• 53
  Compensation; powers and duties
  
  
• 54
  Subject matter of marketing program
  
  
• 54.1
  Persons assessed by other federal, state or multistate programs; exemption, adjustment or credit
  
  
• 55
  Referendum for approval; bloc vote of nonprofit associations of producers
  
  
• 56
  Referendum date
  
  
• 57
  Suspension or termination
  
  
• 58
  Minor amendments
  
  
• 59
  Major amendments
  
  
• 60
  Effective date; filing; publication
  
  
• 61
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 62
  Deposit for expenses upon application for marketing program; refund; assessment of producers and processors; budget
  
  
• 63
  Deposit by producers prior to marketing season
  
  
• 64
  Contributions in lieu of advance deposits; repayment
  
  
• 65
  Collection of assessments
  
  
• 66
  Deposit of funds with state treasurer; separate accounts; disbursement
  
  
• 67
  Emblems, labels, designations of grade, quality or condition; filing; use
  
  
• 68
  Cooperation with federal government and other states
  
  
• 69
  Assessments as personal debts; action for collection; penalty
  
  
• 70
  Liability of members and employees of advisory councils
  
  
• 71
  Survival of causes of action; possession as prima facie evidence of offer to sell; exercise of power or duty by agent
  
  
• 72
  Penalties; remedies
  
  
• 73
  Application to laws governing agricultural commodities; control or limitation of production
  
  
• 74
  Application to taxes on poultry feed, white potatoes, asparagus, and apples; alteration of rates, form and manner
  
  
• 75
  Petition for participation by buyers or processors; referendum
  
  
• 76
  "New Jersey Wine Promotion Account"; establishment, funding.
  
  
• 77
  New Jersey Wine Industry Advisory Council; establishment, members, duties
  
  
• 78
  Certification by taxation director
  
  
• 79
  Establishment of organic certification program
  
  
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• Chapter 11

• 1
  Definitions.
  
  
• 2
  Inapplicability of article.
  
  
• 3
  Necessity of license; mode of designating agents
  
  
• 4
  Application for license; fee.
  
  
• 5
  Issuance of license.
  
  
• 6
  Investigation of record of applicant or licensee
  
  
• 7
  Hearing by secretary when verified complaint filed
  
  
• 8
  Hearing before revocation of license
  
  
• 9
  Refusal, revocation of license.
  
  
• 10
  Review of refusal or revocation of license
  
  
• 11
  Keeping of records by dealer or broker
  
  
• 12
  Posting by dealer or broker of copy of license
  
  
• 13
  Agent's card.
  
  
• 13.1
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
• 14
  Violations, penalties.
  
  
• 15
  Definitions
  
  
• 16
  Article inapplicable to certain transactions
  
  
• 17
  Cooperative agricultural associations; inapplicability of article; registration; exempt agent identification cards; issuance
  
  
• 18
  Necessity of license
  
  
• 19
  Application for license; fee
  
  
• 20
  Bond accompanying application; securities or letter of credit in lieu of bonds; Perishable Agricultural Commodity Surety Fund.
  
  
• 21
  Agricultural commodity agent licensure
  
  
• 22
  Designation and licensing of agent
  
  
• 23
  Investigation of record of applicant or licensee
  
  
• 24
  Hearing by secretary when verified complaint filed
  
  
• 25
  Hearing before revocation of license
  
  
• 26
  Grounds for refusing or revoking license
  
  
• 27
  Review of refusal or revocation of license
  
  
• 28
  Filing with secretary of claims against licensee
  
  
• 28.1
  Claim by grower; time of filing; contents
  
  
• 29
  Audit of claims; demand upon surety; publication of nonpayment; necessity of filing claims; action
  
  
• 29.1
  Request to producer to sign statement relieving dealer or surety unlawful
  
  
• 30
  Keeping of records
  
  
• 31
  Posting of copy of license
  
  
• 32
  Carrying and exhibiting agent's license
  
  
• 33
  Certification by secretary as to license
  
  
• 33.1
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 34
  Penalty for violations; jail for nonpayment
  
  
• 34.1
  Termination of unlicensed operations
  
  
• 35
  Definitions
  
  
• 36
  Purchase by weight required
  
  
• 37
  Weight tickets
  
  
• 43
  Subpenas; issuance; failure to obey
  
  
• 44
  Enforcement; rules and regulations
  
  
• 45
  Weight tickets for crates being transported; tags on crates; removal of poultry in transit
  
  
• 46
  Article inapplicable to certain associations, storekeepers, restaurants, etc.
  
  
• 47
  Fines; jurisdiction; process; arrest
  
  
• 49
  Partial invalidity
  
  
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• Chapter 12

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 1.1
  Applicability of act
  
  
• 2
  Licensing of dealers who buy for shipment, sale, resale or manufacture
  
  
• 3
  Application for license
  
  
• 4
  Bond or deposit for protection of creditors.
  
  
• 5
  Issuance of license
  
  
• 6
  Posting copy of license
  
  
• 7
  Filing of claims by creditors upon default by licensee
  
  
• 8
  Proceedings by secretary to determine amount due each creditor
  
  
• 9
  Claims to which bonds, moneys or securities applicable
  
  
• 11
  Investigation of adequacy of, and requirement of additional, bond or deposit; payments in lieu thereof
  
  
• 12
  Record of purchases and periodical statement thereof to vendor
  
  
• 13
  Posting schedule of prices
  
  
• 14
  Investigation of record of applicant or licensee
  
  
• 15
  Hearing by secretary on complaint after notice
  
  
• 16
  Application for investigation by either party to transaction
  
  
• 17
  Grounds for refusal or revocation of license
  
  
• 18
  Review by court of refusal or revocation of license
  
  
• 19
  Penalty for conducting business without license
  
  
• 19.1
  Request for statement relieving dealer, indemnitor or surety of responsibility forbidden
  
  
• 41.1
  Definitions
  
  
• 41.2
  Testing equipment; methods; approval
  
  
• 41.3
  Permit to buy on butter fat basis
  
  
• 41.4
  License to make butter fat test
  
  
• 41.5
  Persons taking sample, approval of; record; duplicate statements and records
  
  
• 41.6
  Inspection sample, taking and retaining; inspection of sample
  
  
• 41.7
  Permission to use fresh samples as basis of payment; taking and testing fresh samples; preservation
  
  
• 41.8
  Place of butter fat tests
  
  
• 41.9
  Type of weigh tank or container; manner of agitating
  
  
• 41.10
  Treatment of sample forbidden
  
  
• 41.11
  Underreading, overreading or manipulating test; falsifying records
  
  
• 41.12
  Underreading, overreading or manipulating weighing or measuring device; falsifying records
  
  
• 41.13
  Correct weights, measures and tests required; revocation of licenses for tampering
  
  
• 41.14
  Entering premises for inspection; examination of books and records
  
  
• 41.15
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 41.16
  Duplicate statement requirements and provisions of section 4:12-41.9 suspended during world war
  
  
• 41.17
  Hindering or molesting director or representatives prohibited
  
  
• 41.18
  Revocation or suspension of licenses
  
  
• 41.19
  Violations of act
  
  
• 41.20
  Procedure to recover penalty; actions; jurisdiction
  
  
• 41.21
  Partial invalidity
  
  
• 41.22
  Fiscal period for permits and licenses
  
  
• 41.23
  Repeal
  
  
• 41.24
  Effective date
  
  
• 41.25
  Powers and duties of director of New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station transferred to Department of Agriculture
  
  
• 41.26
  Effective date
  
  
• 42
  Deductions by milk dealers and milk companies authorized; statement; retention of bookkeeping costs
  
  
• 43
  Failure to make deductions or forward sum deducted
  
  
• 44
  Penalty for violation of article
  
  
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• Chapter 12A

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Milk Control Board; established; first members; term of office
  
  
• 3
  Per diem and expenses
  
  
• 4
  Director; deputy; counsel; clerical and other assistants
  
  
• 5
  Chairman and recording secretary of board; quorum; meetings; seal
  
  
• 6
  Principal office
  
  
• 7
  General powers of board and director; orders; rules and regulations
  
  
• 8
  Enforcement of act and rules and regulations
  
  
• 9
  Appeals; hearing and determination by board; stay
  
  
• 10
  Oaths; administering by board members; subpoenas; misconduct; false testimony
  
  
• 11
  Place of hearings; technical rules of evidence
  
  
• 12
  Review by Superior Court; bond
  
  
• 13
  Rules of evidence and procedure; proceedings of director
  
  
• 14
  Subpoenas; issuance by director
  
  
• 15
  Oaths; power of director to administer
  
  
• 16
  Refusal to obey subpoena or testify; contempt
  
  
• 17
  Incriminating testimony; immunity
  
  
• 18
  Service of subpoenas; fees and mileage
  
  
• 19
  Investigations; powers of director
  
  
• 20
  Rules, regulations and orders of director; promulgation; enforcement; service
  
  
• 21
  Powers of director enumerated
  
  
• 22
  Minimum prices; power of director to fix
  
  
• 22.1
  Minimum prices; limits on power of director to fix
  
  
• 22.2
  Prices dependent on size or type of container
  
  
• 23
  Notice of hearing; order fixing prices; when effective
  
  
• 24
  Mediation of controversies
  
  
• 25
  Agreements with other agencies
  
  
• 26
  Sales; rules and regulations
  
  
• 27
  Inspection of premises; books and records; right of entry
  
  
• 28
  Licenses; dealers; processors; subdealers; stores
  
  
• 29
  Milk purchased for less than minimum price; prohibition against sale and distribution
  
  
• 30
  Secret agreement for price reduction prohibited; exception
  
  
• 31
  Blending proceeds of sales
  
  
• 32
  Application for license; form; prerequisites
  
  
• 33
  Application for license, time for making; contents; display of license
  
  
• 34
  Refusal or suspension or revocation of license; notice of hearing
  
  
• 35
  Refusal or suspension or revocation of license; grounds
  
  
• 36
  Fees
  
  
• 37
  Records
  
  
• 38
  Reports of licensee
  
  
• 39
  Violations of act; penalty; seizure and sale
  
  
• 40
  Release of milk or proceeds of sale
  
  
• 41
  Jurisdiction; enforcement
  
  
• 43
  Informal hearings on violations; adjustments
  
  
• 44
  Actions to restrain violations
  
  
• 45
  Disposition of license fees, penalties, fines and costs
  
  
• 46
  Continuation of former laws; pending suits continued
  
  
• 47
  Licenses issued under prior laws continued
  
  
• 48
  Grant of specific powers not to impair general powers
  
  
• 49
  Declaration of legislative intent; action to restrain unlawful acts
  
  
• 50
  Foreign or interstate commerce
  
  
• 51
  Partial invalidity
  
  
• 52
  Expiration date
  
  
• 53
  "Distributor" defined
  
  
• 54
  Examination of records to determine cost of distributing milk
  
  
• 55
  Milk distributors to make records available; evidence, production of
  
  
• 56
  Accountants, employment of
  
  
• 57
  Penalty for distributor's failure to comply or interference
  
  
• 58
  Effective date
  
  
• 63
  Short title
  
  
• 64
  Definitions
  
  
• 65
  Milk container marks and identification; filing with secretary of agriculture
  
  
• 66
  Wholesale purchasers; exemption
  
  
• 67
  Offenses
  
  
• 68
  Evidence of offenses
  
  
• 69
  Penalties
  
  
• 70
  Habitual offenders; injunction
  
  
• 71
  Rules and regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 13

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Incorporation
  
  
• 2.1
  Annual fee; exemption from corporation business tax act and uniform security act
  
  
• 3
  Purposes of incorporation
  
  
• 4
  Certificate of incorporation
  
  
• 5
  Use by similar organizations of term "co-operative"
  
  
• 6
  Filing of certificate; fee
  
  
• 7
  Association as body corporate
  
  
• 8
  Amending certificate
  
  
• 9
  Certificate as evidence
  
  
• 10
  Merger or consolidation of associations
  
  
• 10.1
  Federated co-operative associations; membership
  
  
• 11
  Dissolution of associations
  
  
• 12
  General corporation laws to govern
  
  
• 13
  Right of existing associations to come within chapter
  
  
• 14
  Associations incorporated under 1920 law subject to chapter
  
  
• 15
  Authorizing foreign corporations to transact business
  
  
• 16
  General powers of association
  
  
• 17
  First meeting
  
  
• 18
  Election of directors; by-laws; adoption; contents
  
  
• 19
  Board of directors
  
  
• 20
  Officers
  
  
• 21
  Eligibility to membership
  
  
• 22
  Expulsion of members; removal of director or officer
  
  
• 23
  Issuance of certificates
  
  
• 24
  Voting
  
  
• 24.1
  Proportionate voting rights; exception
  
  
• 24.2
  Election of delegates; method of voting
  
  
• 25
  Liability of member for debts of association
  
  
• 26
  Marketing contracts and agencies
  
  
• 26.1
  Deductions from contracts by members with buyers, handlers or processors payable to association; liability for failure to deduct
  
  
• 27
  Requiring members to deal through association; withdrawal
  
  
• 28
  Liquidated damages for failure of member to perform
  
  
• 29
  Validity of contracts with members; breach of contract; injunction
  
  
• 30
  Dealings with nonmembers
  
  
• 31
  Reserve funds; fees and charges; patron's revolving funds; certificates
  
  
• 32
  Dividing yearly balance of associations without capital stock
  
  
• 33
  Dividends and division of balance of associations with capital stock
  
  
• 34
  Annual audit and report; disclosure forbidden
  
  
• 34.1
  Filing of annual report; contents
  
  
• 35
  List of associations not filing report of audit
  
  
• 36
  Notice to associations
  
  
• 37
  Proclamation of dissolution; publication
  
  
• 38
  Dissolution upon issuance of proclamation
  
  
• 39
  Copies of proclamation; mailing; filing
  
  
• 40
  Reservation of names of dissolved associations
  
  
• 41
  Certificate of compliance; effect; fees
  
  
• 42
  Publication of notice of compliance
  
  
• 43
  Definitions
  
  
• 44
  Public policy
  
  
• 45
  Unfair practices
  
  
• 46
  Violations; complaints; hearings
  
  
• 47
  Injunctions
  
  
• 48
  Penalties
  
  
• 49
  Penalty enforcement proceedings; process; summary proceedings; jail sentence
  
  
• 50
  Compliance not deemed conspiracy or combination in restraint of trade, etc.; dissemination of information; marketing adjustments
  
  
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• Chapter 14

• 1
  Department to encourage formation
  
  
• 2
  Membership and organization
  
  
• 3
  Annual reports to department; report of delegates to annual convention
  
  
• 4
  Annual apportionments to county boards
  
  
• 5
  Rules for government
  
  
• 6
  Annual appropriation for expenses
  
  
• 7
  Manner of paying expenses
  
  
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• Chapter 15

• 1
  "Association" defined
  
  
• 2
  Authority to hold fairs and exhibitions
  
  
• 3
  Police jurisdiction of directors
  
  
• 4
  Appointment and qualification of special officers
  
  
• 5
  Powers and duties of special officers
  
  
• 6
  Right of owner to hold fairs
  
  
• 7
  Police jurisdiction of owner; liquor; gambling
  
  
• 8
  Appointment and qualification of special officers
  
  
• 9
  Powers and duties of special officers
  
  
• 10
  Maintenance and use
  
  
• 11
  One-day livestock shows; rules and regulations
  
  
• 12
  Advisory committee
  
  
• 13
  Moneys for premiums, awards and maintenance
  
  
• 14
  Dog sled racing
  
  
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• Chapter 16

• 1
  Station continued
  
  
• 6
  Duties of board
  
  
• 7
  Acceptance of conveyances
  
  
• 8
  Annual appropriations for station and its activities
  
  
• 9
  Analysis of milk, butter or other farm products
  
  
• 10
  Investigation of oyster propagation
  
  
• 11
  Investigation of biology of sewage disposal
  
  
• 12
  "Poultry" defined
  
  
• 13
  Maintenance of department; employment of assistants
  
  
• 14
  Acquisition of buildings, equipment and supplies
  
  
• 15
  Investigations in poultry breeding and care
  
  
• 16
  Publication of results of investigations
  
  
• 17
  Egg-laying and breed-testing stations; employment of assistants
  
  
• 18
  Investigations and instruction in poultry diseases
  
  
• 19
  Supervision of work; poultry pathologist and laboratory assistant
  
  
• 20
  Meetings of poultry raisers
  
  
• 21
  Instruction in poultry raising; poultry exhibitions
  
  
• 21.1
  Turkey breeding and feeding research farm
  
  
• 21.2
  Co-operation of board of chosen freeholders
  
  
• 21.3
  Studies of communicable diseases of domestic fowls authorized
  
  
• 21.4
  Poultry pathology laboratory; Monmouth and Ocean counties; establishment
  
  
• 21.5
  Vineland laboratory; expansion and improvement
  
  
• 21.6
  Appropriation
  
  
• 22
  Definition; construction of article
  
  
• 23
  County agricultural agents
  
  
• 24
  Continuous course of demonstrations in counties
  
  
• 25
  Selection of farms for demonstration
  
  
• 26
  Performance of demonstration work
  
  
• 27
  County appropriations
  
  
• 28
  State appropriation
  
  
• 29
  Use of state or county appropriations
  
  
• 30
  Co-operation with federal department
  
  
• 31
  Demonstration farms on state institutional lands
  
  
• 31.1
  Victory garden program; organizing and guiding
  
  
• 31.2
  Canning, drying, freezing, brining of foods; encouraging and promoting
  
  
• 31.3
  Enlisting participation and cooperation of state and federal agencies and departments
  
  
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• Chapter 17

• 2
  Trespass; enforcement
  
  
• 3
  Arrest of offenders without warrant
  
  
• 4
  Failure to produce permit as evidence
  
  
• 5
  Jail for nonpayment of fine
  
  
• 9
  Injury to or taking of wild flowers, plants or trees; penalty
  
  
• 10
  Injuring, destroying or removing trees, saplings or poles; penalty
  
  
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• Chapter 18A

• 1
  Funds held by United States as trustee in behalf of New Jersey Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; receipt from Federal officials
  
  
• 2
  Funds to be forwarded to State Treasurer; disbursement
  
  
• 3
  Uses of funds
  
  
• 4
  Vouchers
  
  
• 5
  Agreements with United States Secretary of Agriculture regarding loans under Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act
  
  
• 6
  Powers of secretary of agriculture; delegation of authority
  
  
• 7
  Accounts; audit
  
  
• 8
  Rules and regulations; delegations of authority
  
  
• 9
  Freedom from liability
  
  
• 10
  Partial invalidity
  
  
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• Chapter 19

• 1
  Annual dog taxes
  
  
• 2
  Assessors to set down number of dogs owned
  
  
• 3
  Refusal to report number and age of dogs; penalty
  
  
• 4
  Use of tax collections to pay claims; handling of fund
  
  
• 5
  Claims for and establishment of damages
  
  
• 6
  Suit by municipality against owner
  
  
• 7
  Effect of article on owner's liability
  
  
• 8
  Failure to kill dog found worrying livestock, penalty
  
  
• 9
  Right to destroy offending dogs
  
  
• 15.1
  Definitions.
  
  
• 15.2
  Dogs; license and metal registration tag required; placing tag on dog
  
  
• 15.2a
  Evidence of inoculation with rabies vaccine or certification of exemption; requirement for license
  
  
• 15.3
  Application, renewal of dog license; fee; exemptions
  
  
• 15.3a
  Staggered expiration of licenses, prorated fees
  
  
• 15.3b
  Additional fee; dog of reproductive age without permanent alteration of reproductive capacity; disposition
  
  
• 15.3c
  Additional fee for dogs; disposition
  
  
• 15.4
  Time for applying for license
  
  
• 15.5
  Application for dog license, information requested, preservation
  
  
• 15.6
  Dogs brought into state
  
  
• 15.7
  Removing tag from dog without owner's consent; attaching tag to another dog
  
  
• 15.8
  Licensing of kennel, pet shop, shelter, pound.
  
  
• 15.9
  License fees for kennels and pet shops; no fee for shelter or pound
  
  
• 15.10
  Kennels, pet shops, shelters or pounds; permitting dogs to go off premises
  
  
• 15.11
  Disposition of fees collected
  
  
• 15.12
  License fee may be fixed by ordinance; fee otherwise.
  
  
• 15.13
  List of licensed kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds
  
  
• 15.14
  Rules and regulations for kennels, pet shops, shelters and pounds
  
  
• 15.15
  Canvass of dogs, report
  
  
• 15.16
  Unclaimed dogs or other animals to be destroyed, offered for adoption
  
  
• 15.16a
  Rules, regulations concerning training, educational qualifications for animal control officers.
  
  
• 15.16b
  Appointment of certified animal control officer.
  
  
• 15.16c
  Powers, authority of certified animal control officer.
  
  
• 15.16d
  Forwarding of copy of complaint, summons, arrest warrant or report.
  
  
• 15.17
  Seizure of dogs, going on premises for
  
  
• 15.18
  Interfering with persons performing duties under act
  
  
• 15.19
  Violations of act or rules; penalty
  
  
• 15.20
  Penalty to be paid to plaintiff; disposition
  
  
• 15.21
  Courts of jurisdiction, summary hearing, process
  
  
• 15.23
  Refusal to pay judgment; confinement in jail
  
  
• 15.27
  Act inapplicable to veterinarians' establishments
  
  
• 15.28
  Statutes repealed
  
  
• 15.29
  Effective date
  
  
• 16
  Liability of owner regardless of viciousness of dog
  
  
• 17
  Findings, declarations
  
  
• 18
  Definitions
  
  
• 19
  Impoundment of dog
  
  
• 20
  Notification of owner of dog; hearing
  
  
• 21.1
  Settlement agreements, immunity of municipality
  
  
• 22
  Dog declared vicious by municipal court; conditions
  
  
• 23
  Dog declared potentially dangerous; conditions.
  
  
• 24
  Registration of potentially dangerous dog; conditions
  
  
• 25
  Appeal of decision
  
  
• 26
  Liability of owner for cost of impounding, destroying dog; rabies testing
  
  
• 27
  Hearing on subsequent actions of dog
  
  
• 28
  Obligations of owner of potentially dangerous dog
  
  
• 29
  Violation by owner; fine, seizure, impoundment of dog
  
  
• 30
  Municipality to register, identify potentially dangerous dogs; publicize phone numbers to report violations
  
  
• 31
  Municipality to establish fee for potentially dangerous dog license
  
  
• 32
  Monthly inspection to verify compliance
  
  
• 33
  Statewide system for registration of potentially dangerous dogs
  
  
• 34
  Actions subject to "New Jersey Tort Claims Act"
  
  
• 35
  Fines, fees, used for enforcement by municipalities
  
  
• 36
  Act to supersede inconsistent local laws
  
  
• 37
  Exemptions for dogs used for law enforcement purposes
  
  
• 38
  Debarking silencing of dog, certain circumstances; third degree crime
  
  
• 39
  Duly licensed veterinarian permitted to debark, silence dog; penalty
  
  
• 40
  Seizure, forfeiture of dog at time of arrest of violator
  
  
• 41
  Statement filed by veterinarian
  
  
• 42
  Issuance of license, determination as to whether dog surgically debarked, silenced
  
  
• 43
  Information provided to prospective owner
  
  
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• Chapter 19A

• 1
  Program; purpose
  
  
• 2
  Eligibility
  
  
• 3
  Submission of animal for spaying or neutering; proof of eligibility; consent form; fee; disposition
  
  
• 4
  Veterinarians; participation in program; application; reimbursement for animal sterilization procedure and presurgical immunization
  
  
• 5
  Animal Population Control Fund
  
  
• 6
  Unretrieved animal; final disposition
  
  
• 7
  Violations; penalties; enforcement
  
  
• 8
  Rules or regulations
  
  
• 9
  Annual report
  
  
• 10
  Definitions
  
  
• 11
  Pilot clinic for spaying, neutering; fees
  
  
• 12
  Consent form; retrieval of animal; abandonment
  
  
• 13
  Fee adjustment; recommendation
  
  
• 14
  Acceptance of funds; pilot clinic fund
  
  
• 15
  Report; recommendations
  
  
• 16
  Domestic Companion Animal Council
  
  
• 17
  Duties of council
  
  
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• Chapter 20

• 1
  Sufficiency of fences in general
  
  
• 2
  Sufficiency of partition fences
  
  
• 3
  Partition fences of barbed wire
  
  
• 4
  Gates as part of partition fence
  
  
• 5
  Sufficiency of ditches as fences in meadows
  
  
• 6
  Sufficiency as fences of things equivalent thereto
  
  
• 7
  Duty to make and maintain portion of partition fence
  
  
• 8
  Failure to make and maintain portion of partition fence
  
  
• 9
  Apportioning of partition fence for erection and maintenance
  
  
• 10
  Specification of time for making partition fence
  
  
• 11
  Placing partition fence where parties disagree
  
  
• 12
  Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is private road or watercourse
  
  
• 13
  Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is township boundary
  
  
• 14
  Failure of members of township committee to agree
  
  
• 15
  Failure of member of township committee to act; penalty
  
  
• 16
  Fees of township committee members
  
  
• 17
  Notice as prerequisite to removal of partition fence
  
  
• 18
  Agreements respecting partition fences
  
  
• 19
  Registration of agreements and certificates; fee
  
  
• 21
  Failure of clerk to register; penalty
  
  
• 22
  Damages by animals breaking through lawful fences
  
  
• 23
  Impounding and sale of such animals
  
  
• 24
  Impounding and sale where no public pound
  
  
• 25
  Molestation of gate in partition fence; penalty; damages and impounding of animals
  
  
• 26
  Effect of failure to maintain fences on damages and impounding
  
  
• 27
  Effect of failure to maintain portion of partition fence
  
  
• 28
  Injuring animals trespassing for want of sufficient fence
  
  
• 29
  Damages to animals by barbed wire partition fences
  
  
• 30
  Fences in highway for preservation of hedges
  
  
• 31
  Ploughing or digging close to hedge prohibited
  
  
• 32
  Violations of sections 4:20-30 and 4:20-31; penalty; damages
  
  
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• Chapter 21

• 1
  Right to impound animals running at large
  
  
• 2
  Right to impound trespassing animals
  
  
• 3
  Interference with impounding of animals; penalty
  
  
• 4
  Right to drive animals over streets and highways
  
  
• 5
  Fee for taking stray or trespassing animals to pound
  
  
• 6
  Poundkeeper's fees
  
  
• 7
  Sale of impounded animals and disposition of proceeds
  
  
• 11
  Permitting stallion to run at large; penalty
  
  
• 12
  Permitting bull to run at large; penalty; damages
  
  
• 13
  Rams trespassing or going at large during specified period; remedy
  
  
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• Chapter 21B

• 1
  Establishment and operation to provide services for alteration of reproductive capacity; ordinance; fees
  
  
• 2
  Notarized authorization by owner for consent and agreement to hold harmless
  
  
• 3
  Terms and conditions for maintenance of animal while in custody of clinic
  
  
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• Chapter 22

• 11.1
  Definitions relative to prevention of cruelty to animals.
  
  
• 11.2
  N.J.S.P.C.A continued to coordinate function of county societies.
  
  
• 11.3
  Establishment of bylaws, standards, guidelines.
  
  
• 11.4
  Duties, responsibilities of board of trustees.
  
  
• 11.5
  Fees for chartering county societies.
  
  
• 11.6
  Continuation of existing county societies.
  
  
• 11.7
  Duties, responsibilities of county society.
  
  
• 11.8
  Completion of training courses by officers, agents.
  
  
• 11.9
  Certain persons ineligible for service; criminal history record background check.
  
  
• 11.10
  Application for commission as humane law enforcement officer.
  
  
• 11.11
  Training course for animal protection law enforcement.
  
  
• 11.12
  Effort to assist humane law enforcement officers, agents by governmental entities.
  
  
• 11.13
  Annual audit of societies.
  
  
• 12
  Use of badge by nonmember; petty disorderly persons offense
  
  
• 13
  Right to amend charter to include enumerated powers and purposes.
  
  
• 15
  Definitions
  
  
• 16
  Permitted activities
  
  
• 16.1
  Adoption of standards, rules, regulations for treatment of domestic livestock
  
  
• 17
  Cruelty; disorderly persons offense; certain acts, crimes; degrees.
  
  
• 18
  Carrying animal in cruel, inhumane manner; disorderly persons offense
  
  
• 19
  Failure to care for, destruction of impounded animals; penalties; collection
  
  
• 19.1
  Chamber or device to induce hypoxia; dismantlement and removal
  
  
• 19.2
  Dismantlement and removal of decompression chamber or device; offense
  
  
• 19.3
  Neuromuscular blocking agents prohibited
  
  
• 19.4
  Penalty
  
  
• 20
  Abandoning disabled animal to die in public place; disorderly persons offense
  
  
• 21
  Offering for sale horse unfit for work; disorderly persons.
  
  
• 22
  Offering diseased animal for sale; crime of fourth degree
  
  
• 23
  Use of bird as target; disorderly persons offense, $25 fine.
  
  
• 24
  Animal fighting crimes
  
  
• 25.1
  Motorist hitting domestic animal to stop; report
  
  
• 25.2
  Violations; petty disorderly persons offense
  
  
• 25.3
  Sale, barter of products made from dog or cat fur; prohibited
  
  
• 25.4
  Sale, barter of dog or cat flesh or products for human consumption; disorderly persons offense
  
  
• 26
  Penalties for various acts constituting cruelty.
  
  
• 26.1
  Confiscation, forfeiture of animal
  
  
• 28
  Civil, criminal actions separate.
  
  
• 29
  Jurisdiction for action for penalty.
  
  
• 32
  Enforcement and collection of penalties; warrant.
  
  
• 33
  Security for appearance where defendant nonresident or desires continuance
  
  
• 44
  Arrests with, without warrant.
  
  
• 45
  Notice to State, district society of arrest; exceptions.
  
  
• 46
  Search warrants; issuance
  
  
• 47
  Warrentless arrest for fighting or baiting offenses.
  
  
• 48
  Forfeiture, sale of seized animals
  
  
• 48.1
  Owner to bear expenses
  
  
• 48.2
  Owner of confiscated animal responsible for certain costs
  
  
• 50
  Care of animal when person in charge arrested
  
  
• 50.1
  Petition for animal pound receivership
  
  
• 50.2
  Appointment; notice, hearing
  
  
• 50.3
  Powers of receiver; compensation
  
  
• 50.4
  Presentation, settlement of accounts
  
  
• 50.5
  Termination of receivership
  
  
• 50.6
  Pounds subject to act
  
  
• 51
  Supplying necessary food to animals impounded by another
  
  
• 52
  Seizure and sale of vehicle transporting animals in cruel manner
  
  
• 53
  Sale of animals abandoned in disabled condition
  
  
• 54
  Destruction of animals found in disabled condition
  
  
• 55
  Payment, disposition of fines, penalties, moneys, imposed and collected.
  
  
• 56
  SPCA, municipality, county, animal control officer not liable for the other.
  
  
• 57
  Notice to commissioner of persons ineligible to be certified animal control officers.
  
  
• 58
  Definitions relative to use of animals in product testing.
  
  
• 59
  Animal testing prohibited under certain circumstances.
  
  
• 60
  Exclusive remedy for enforcement.
  
  
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• Chapter 22A

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  5-acre minimum
  
  
• 3
  Notarized dedication
  
  
• 4
  Disclosure of status
  
  
• 5
  Removal of dedication
  
  
• 6
  Subsequent liens subordinate
  
  
• 7
  Maintenance fees
  
  
• 8
  $12,000 minimum in trust fund
  
  
• 9
  Pet disposal form
  
  
• 10
  Compliance with instructions
  
  
• 11
  Registration
  
  
• 12
  Violation; penalty
  
  
• 13
  Forms; rules, regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 23

• 1
  Penalties to which article applies
  
  
• 2
  Jurisdiction
  
  
• 6
  Enforcement and collection of penalties
  
  
• 10
  Penalties paid into state treasury
  
  
• 11
  Penalties to which article applies
  
  
• 12
  Jurisdiction
  
  
• 14
  Failure to pay penalty; commitment
  
  
• 15
  Arrest without warrant for violation in view of officer
  
  
• 18
  Penalties paid into state treasury
  
  
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• Chapter 24

• 1
  Legislative policy declared
  
  
• 1.1
  Prevention of damage by floodwater or sediment; conservation of water for agricultural purposes
  
  
• 2
  Words and phrases defined
  
  
• 2.1
  Transfer of functions, powers and duties to Department of Agriculture
  
  
• 3
  Committee established; membership; records; seal; hearings; rules and regulations
  
  
• 3.1
  Election of members
  
  
• 4
  Administrative officer and employees; legal services; co-operative agreements
  
  
• 5
  Organization; term of members; quorum; expenses; surety bonds for employees; records; audit
  
  
• 6
  Powers and duties of committee
  
  
• 6.1
  Review and approval, modification or rejection of decisions
  
  
• 17.1
  Public hearings
  
  
• 17.2
  Resolution requesting approval; procedure upon approval
  
  
• 17.3
  New supervisors; appointment; time of taking office
  
  
• 17.4
  Continuance of contracts, liabilities, regulations and other matters; assumption by new district
  
  
• 17.5
  County and multi-county soil conservation districts; creation
  
  
• 17.6
  Appropriation of funds by counties
  
  
• 17.7
  Legal services to district by Attorney General
  
  
• 18
  Governing body of district; supervisors; appointment
  
  
• 19
  Supervisors; chairman; term of office; quorum; per diem
  
  
• 20
  Officers and employees; information to state committee
  
  
• 21
  Surety bonds for officers and employees; records; annual audit
  
  
• 22
  District a governmental subdivision and body corporate; enumeration of powers of districts and supervisors
  
  
• 22.1
  Site plan for leaf composting facility; annual inspection
  
  
• 22.2
  Conditions for operation of leaf composting facility
  
  
• 23
  Supervisors to formulate regulations; public hearings; submission to state committee; objections by landowners
  
  
• 24
  Amendment, etc., of regulations
  
  
• 25
  Provisions which may be included in regulations
  
  
• 26
  Regulations to be uniform; printing of copies
  
  
• 27
  Authority of supervisors; suit for damages by landowner for violations
  
  
• 28
  Nonobservance of land-use regulations; action
  
  
• 30
  Members; appointment, term, removal, etc., expenses
  
  
• 31
  Rules by board; organization; meetings; oaths and witnesses; records
  
  
• 32
  Petition by landowner to board for variance in land-use regulations; procedure
  
  
• 33
  Review of order of board
  
  
• 34
  Duty of state agencies, counties, etc., to co-operate
  
  
• 39
  Short title
  
  
• 40
  Legislative findings
  
  
• 41
  Definitions.
  
  
• 42
  Standards for control of soil erosion and sedimentation; promulgation, amendment and repeal
  
  
• 42.1
  Adoption of standards.
  
  
• 43
  Certification of plan by district; development of projects
  
  
• 44
  Certification of plan; criteria; notice
  
  
• 45
  Limitation on time for grant or denial of certification
  
  
• 46
  Fees
  
  
• 47
  Stop-construction order; failure to comply with certified plan
  
  
• 48
  Exempt municipalities
  
  
• 49
  Certificate of occupancy for project; conditions for issuance
  
  
• 50
  County planning board as agent for district
  
  
• 51
  Cooperation with and authorization to receive financial aid from governmental units or private sources
  
  
• 52
  State aid
  
  
• 53
  Violations; injunction; penalty; enforcement
  
  
• 54
  Liberal construction
  
  
• 55
  Severability
  
  
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• Chapter 27

• 1
  Short title.
  
  
• 2
  Findings, declarations relative to aquaculture.
  
  
• 3
  Definitions relative to aquaculture.
  
  
• 4
  Office of Aquaculture Coordination.
  
  
• 5
  Aquaculture Advisory Council.
  
  
• 6
  Aquaculture considered component of agriculture.
  
  
• 7
  Interagency memoranda of agreement concerning implementation of Aquaculture Development Plan.
  
  
• 8
  Policies for use of aquaculture leases.
  
  
• 9
  Interagency memorandum of agreement to expand current leasing programs.
  
  
• 10
  Review of laws, rules, regulations pertinent to aquaculture.
  
  
• 11
  Review of laws, rules, regulations pertinent to predation problems.
  
  
• 12
  Aquaculture sites not designated freshwater wetland, conditions.
  
  
• 13
  Aquaculture sites not designated coastal wetland, conditions.
  
  
• 14
  Agriculture programs applicable to aquaculture.
  
  
• 15
  Aquaculture statistics reporting, assistance programs.
  
  
• 16
  Management practices for control of soil erosion, sedimentation.
  
  
• 17
  Licensure of possession, ownership of aquacultural organisms.
  
  
• 18
  Aquatic health management plan.
  
  
• 19
  Comprehensive animal waste management program.
  
  
• 20
  Aquaculture component for model planning and zoning ordinances.
  
  
• 21
  Review of worker's compensation package coverages.
  
  
• 22
  Development, implementation of information campaign.
  
  
• 23
  Development of mechanisms for providing tax credits, reduced loan payments.
  
  
• 24
  Review of product liability insurance.
  
  
• 25
  Construction of act.