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 order the immediate slaughter of infected animals and animals which have been exposed to but are not affected with the disease.
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 4:5-75.3
Rules and regulations
Known as the New Jersey Aquaculture Development Act
The act spans §§ 4:10-1 to 4:9-38 (1,329 sections).
L.1948, c. 436, p. 1686, s. 3.
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