56:8-93 - Definitions relative to sales of cats and dogs
56:8-93 Definitions relative to sales of cats and dogs.
2.As used in sections 1 through 5 of this act:
"Animal" means a cat or dog;
"Consumer" means a person purchasing a cat or dog;
"Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety;
"Division" means the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety;
"Pet dealer" means any person engaged in the ordinary course of business in the sale of cats or dogs to the public for profit or any person who sells or offers for sale more than five cats or dogs in one year;
"Pet shop" means a pet shop as defined in section 1 of P.L.1941, c.151 (C.4:19-15.1);
"Quarantine" means to hold in segregation from the general population any cat or dog 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 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 by death by accident or as a result of injuries sustained during that period, shall mean the animal was unfit for purchase; and
"Veterinarian" means a veterinarian licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.
L.1999,c.336,s.2.