New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 45A - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES OF THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Subchapter 12 - SALE OF ANIMALS
Section 13:45A-12.1 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Animal" means a dog or cat.
"Consumer" means any natural person purchasing a dog or cat from a pet dealer.
"Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs, Department of Law and Public Safety.
"Kennel" means the business of boarding dogs or cats or breeding dogs or cats for sale.
"Person" means any person as defined by 56:8-1(d).
"Pet dealer" means any person engaged in the ordinary course of business in the sale of animals for profit to the public or any person who sells or offers for sale more than five animals per year.
"Pet shop" means a place of business for selling, offering for sale or exposing for sale dogs or cats.
"Quarantine" means to hold in segregation from the general animal population any dog or cat because of the presence or suspected presence of a contagious or infectious disease.
"Unfit for purchase" means any disease, deformity, injury, physical condition, illness or defect which is congenital or hereditary and severely affects the health of the animal, or which was manifest, capable of diagnosis or likely to have been contracted on or before the sale and delivery of the animal to the consumer. The death of an animal within 14 days of its delivery to the consumer, except death by accident or as a result of injuries sustained during that period shall mean such animal was unfit for purchase.
