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
Section 8:23A-1.1 - Definitions
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Adult dog or cat" means a dog or cat over the age of seven months or which possesses a set of permanent teeth.
"Animal" means any animal subject to rabies or other diseases of dogs.
"Boarding" is the act of providing food and shelter to dogs, regardless of whether it involves an overnight stay, for a fee, at the request of the owner or caretaker.
"Department" means the Department of Health and Senior Services.
"Disinfection" is any process, chemical or physical, by means of which pathogenic agents or disease producing microbes are destroyed, but not necessarily resistant bacterial spores.
"Euthanasia" is the act of inducing painless death.
"Facility" means any kennel, pet shop, shelter or pound subject to 4:19-15.1 et seq. and this chapter.
"Impervious surface" means a surface that does not permit the absorption of fluids. Such surfaces are those that can be thoroughly and repeatedly cleaned and disinfected, which will not retain odors, and from which fluids bead up and run off or can be removed without being absorbed into the surface material.
"Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program" or "IZDP" means the Infectious and Zoonotic Disease Program of the Communicable Disease Service of the Division of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Health in the Public Health Protection and Emergency Preparedness Branch of the Department of Health and Senior Services. The mailing address of the IZDP is PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369.
"Kennel" means any establishment wherein or whereupon the business of boarding or selling dogs or breeding dogs for sale is carried on, except a pet shop.
"Owner" when applied to the proprietorship of a dog means every person having a right of property in that dog and every person who has that dog in his or her keeping, and when applied to the proprietorship of any other animal, including, but not limited to, a cat, means every person having a right of property in that animal and every person who has that animal in his or her keeping.
"Pet shop" means any place of business which is not part of a kennel, wherein animals, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters or gerbils, are kept or displayed chiefly for the purpose of sale to individuals for personal appreciation and companionship rather than for business or research purposes.
"Potable water" means water suitable for human consumption.
"Pound" means any establishment of the confinement of dogs or other animals seized either under the provisions of 4:19-15.1 6 or otherwise.
"Primary enclosure" means any structure used to restrict an animal or animals to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, run, cage or compartment.
"Shelter" means any establishment where dogs or other animals are received, housed and distributed.
