New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 23A - ANIMAL FACILITY OPERATION; ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY INVESTIGATOR CERTIFICATION; PILOT SPAYING AND NEUTERING CLINIC FEES; AND RABIES INOCULATION
- Subchapter 1 - SANITARY OPERATION OF KENNELS, PET SHOPS, SHELTERS AND POUNDS
- Subchapter 2 - ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY INVESTIGATOR CERTIFICATION
- Subchapter 3 - PILOT LOW COST SPAYING AND NEUTERING CLINIC SURGERY FEES
- Subchapter 4 - RABIES INOCULATION
- Subchapter 5 - PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
CHAPTER SOURCE AND
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective: October 28, 2021.
See: 53
N.J.R. 2007(a).
CHAPTER HISTORICAL NOTE:
Chapter 23A,
Animal Facility Operation; Animal Control Officer Certification; Pilot
Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees, was originally codified in N.J.A.C. 8:23 as Subchapter
3, Sanitary Operation of Kennels, Pet Shops, Shelters and Pounds, Subchapter 5,
Animal Control Officer Certification, and Subchapter 6, Pilot Low Cost Spaying
and Neutering Clinic Surgery Fees. Subchapter 3 was filed and became effective
prior to September 1, 1969. Subchapter 5 was adopted as R.1984 d.575, effective
December 17, 1984. See: 16 N.J.R. 2725(a), 16 N.J.R. 3432(b). Subchapter 6 was
adopted as R.1993 d.568, effective November 15, 1993. See: 25 N.J.R. 3116(a),
25 N.J.R. 5148(b).
Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978),
Subchapter 3, Sanitary Operation of Kennels, Pet Shops, Shelters and Pounds,
Subchapter 5, Animal Control Officer Certification, and Subchapter 6, Pilot Low
Cost Spaying and Neutering Clinic Certification, were readopted as R.1995,
d.24, effective December 13, 1994, and were recodified as N.J.A.C. 8:23A by
R.1995 d.24, effective January 17, 1995. See: 26 N.J.R. 4129(a), 27 N.J.R.
343(b). Pursuant to Executive Order No. 66(1978), Chapter 23A expired on
December 13, 1999.
Chapter 23A, Animal Facility Operation; Animal
Control Officer Certification; Pilot Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees, was adopted as
new rules by R.2000 d.122, effective March 20, 2000. See: 31 N.J.R. 3025(a), 32
N.J.R. 1053(a).
In accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1c, the
expiration date of Chapter 23A, Animal Facility Operation; Animal Control
Officer Certification; Pilot Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees, was extended to September
16, 2005. See: 37 N.J.R. 1392(a).
In accordance with N.J.S.A.
52:14B-5.1d, the expiration date of Chapter 23A, Animal Facility Operation;
Animal Control Officer Certification; Pilot Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees, was
extended by gubernatorial directive from September 16, 2005 to September 15,
2006. See: 37 N.J.R. 4019(b).
Chapter 23A, Animal Facility
Operation; Animal Control Officer Certification; Pilot Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees,
was readopted as R.2007 d.98, effective March 13, 2007. As a part of R.2007
d.98, Chapter 23A, Animal Facility Operation; Animal Control Officer
Certification; Pilot Spay/Neuter Clinic Fees was renamed Animal Facility
Operation; Animal Control Officer and Animal Cruelty Investigator
Certification; Pilot Spaying and Neutering Clinic Fees; and Rabies Inoculation,
and Subchapter 5, Penalty for Violation, was adopted as new rules, effective
April 16, 2007. See: 38 N.J.R. 4606(a), 39 N.J.R. 1474(a).
In
accordance with N.J.S.A. 52:14B-5.1b, Chapter 23A, Animal Facility Operation;
Animal Control Officer and Animal Cruelty Investigator Certification; Pilot
Spaying and Neutering Clinic Fees; and Rabies Inoculation, was scheduled to
expire on March 13, 2014. See: 43 N.J.R. 1203(a).
Chapter 23A,
Animal Facility Operation; Animal Control Officer and Animal Cruelty
Investigator Certification; Pilot Spaying and Neutering Clinic Fees; and Rabies
Inoculation, was readopted, effective February 11, 2014. See: 46 N.J.R. 541(a).
In accordance with
N.J.S.A.
52:14B-5.1, Chapter 23A, Animal Facility
Operation; Animal Control Officer and Animal Cruelty Investigator
Certification; Pilot Spaying and Neutering Clinic Fees; and Rabies Inoculation,
was scheduled to expire on February 11, 2021. Pursuant to Executive Order Nos.
127 (2020) and 244 (2021) and
P.L.
2021, c. 103, any
chapter of the New Jersey Administrative Code that would otherwise have expired
during the Public Health Emergency originally declared in Executive Order No.
103 (2020) is extended through January 1, 2022. Chapter 23A, Animal Facility
Operation; Animal Control Officer and Animal Cruelty Investigator
Certification; Pilot Spaying and Neutering Clinic Fees; and Rabies Inoculation,
was readopted, effective October 28, 2021. See: Source and Effective
Date.
CHAPTER AUTHORITY:
N.J.S.A. 4:19-15.1 et seq., particularly 4:19-15.2a, 15.14, and 15.16a; and 4:19A-1 et seq., particularly 4:19A-2, 8, and 11.