56:8-93 Definitions relative to sales of cats and dogs.
2. As used in P.L.1999, c.336 (C.56:8-92 et al.):
"Animal" means a cat or dog.
"Breeder" means any person, firm, corporation, or organization in the business of breeding cats or dogs.
"Broker" means any person, firm, corporation, or organization who sells a cat or dog to a pet shop, whether or not the broker is also the breeder of the cat or dog.
"Consumer" means a person purchasing a cat or dog not for the purposes of resale.
"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.
"USDA" means the United States Department of Agriculture.
"USDA license number" means the license number issued to a breeder or broker by the United States Department of Agriculture pursuant to the federal "Animal Welfare Act," 7 U.S.C. s.2131 et seq., or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
"Veterinarian" means a veterinarian licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.
L.1999, c.336, s.2; amended 2015, c.7, s.1.
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