Chapter 23A - ANIMAL FACILITY OPERATION; ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY INVESTIGATOR CERTIFICATION; PILOT SPAYING AND NEUTERING CLINIC FEES; AND RABIES INOCULATION

  1. Subchapter 1 - SANITARY OPERATION OF KENNELS, PET SHOPS, SHELTERS AND POUNDS (§ 8:23A-1.1 to 8:23A-1.13)
  2. Subchapter 2 - ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER AND ANIMAL CRUELTY INVESTIGATOR CERTIFICATION (§ 8:23A-2.1 to 8:23A-2.8)
  3. Subchapter 3 - PILOT LOW COST SPAYING AND NEUTERING CLINIC SURGERY FEES (§ 8:23A-3.1 to 8:23A-3.2)
  4. Subchapter 4 - RABIES INOCULATION (§ 8:23A-4.1 to 8:23A-4.3)
  5. Subchapter 5 - PENALTY FOR VIOLATION (§ 8:23A-5.1)

Notes

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.

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