New Jersey
Anti-Cruelty
StatutesNEW
JERSEY STATUTES
TITLE 4. AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
CHAPTER 22.
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
ARTICLE 2. PREVENTION OF CRUELTY
B. MISDEMEANORS
AND FINES 4:22-17. Cruelty in general; disorderly
persons offense A person who shall: a. Overdrive, overload, drive
when overloaded, overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance,
unnecessarily or cruelly beat or otherwise abuse, or needlessly mutilate or kill,
a living animal or creature; b. Cause or procure any of such acts to be
done; or c. Inflict unnecessary cruelty upon a living animal or creature
of which he has charge either as owner or otherwise, or unnecessarily fail to
provide it with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather-- Shall
be guilty of a disorderly persons offense. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4:22-18.
Carrying animal in cruel manner; disorderly persons offense
A person who
shall carry, or cause to be carried, a living animal or creature in or upon a
vehicle or otherwise, in a cruel or inhumane manner, shall be guilty of a disorderly
persons offense. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C.
PENALTIES; RECOVERY
4:22-26. Acts constituting cruelty in general; penalty
A person who shall: a. Overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded,
overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, or cruelly beat or
otherwise abuse or needlessly mutilate or kill a living animal or creature; b.
Cause or procure to be done by his agent, servant, employee or otherwise an act
enumerated in subsection "a." of this section; c. Inflict unnecessary
cruelty upon a living animal or creature of which he has charge or custody either
as owner or otherwise, or unnecessarily fail to provide it with proper food, drink,
shelter or protection from the weather; d. Receive or offer for sale a
horse which by reason of disability, disease or lameness, or any other cause,
could not be worked without violating the provisions of this article; e.
Keep, use, be connected with or interested in the management of, or receive money
or other consideration for the admission of a person to, a place kept or used
for the purpose of fighting or baiting a living animal or creature; f.
Be present and witness, pay admission to, encourage, aid or assist in an activity
enumerated in subsection "e." of this section; g. Permit or suffer
a place owned or controlled by him to be used as provided in subsection "e."
of this section; h. Carry, or cause to be carried, a living animal or creature
in or upon a vehicle or otherwise, in a cruel or inhuman manner; i. Use
a dog or dogs for the purpose of drawing or helping to draw a vehicle for business
purposes; j. Impound or confine or cause to be impounded or confined in
a pound or other place a living animal or creature, and shall fail to supply it
during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of good and wholesome food
and water; k. Abandon a maimed, sick, infirm or disabled animal or creature
to die in a public place; l. Willfully sell, or offer to sell, use, expose,
or cause or permit to be sold or offered for sale, used or exposed, a horse or
other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious
or infectious disease dangerous to the health or life of human beings or animals,
or who shall, when any such disease is beyond recovery, refuse, upon demand, to
deprive the animal of life; m. Own, operate, manage or conduct a roadside
stand or market for the sale of merchandise along a public street or highway;
or a shopping mall, or a part of the premises thereof; and keep a living animal
or creature confined, or allowed to roam in an area whether or not the area is
enclosed, on these premises as an exhibit; except that this subsection shall not
be applicable to: a pet shop licensed pursuant to P.L.1941, c. 151 (C. 4:19-15.1
et seq.); a person who keeps an animal, in a humane manner, for the purpose of
the protection of the premises; or a recognized breeders' association, a 4-H club,
an educational agricultural program, an equestrian team, a humane society or other
similar charitable or nonprofit organization conducting an exhibition, show or
performance; n. Keep or exhibit a wild animal at a roadside stand or market
located along a public street or highway of this State; a gasoline station; or
a shopping mall, or a part of the premises thereof; o. Sell, offer for
sale, barter or give away or display live baby chicks, ducklings or other fowl
or rabbits, turtles or chameleons which have been dyed or artificially colored
or otherwise treated so as to impart to them an artificial color; p. Use
any animal, reptile, or fowl for the purpose of soliciting any alms, collections,
contributions, subscriptions, donations, or payment of money except in connection
with exhibitions, shows or performances conducted in a bona fide manner by recognized
breeders' associations, 4-H clubs or other similar bona fide organizations; q.
Sell or offer for sale, barter, or give away living rabbits, turtles, baby chicks,
ducklings or other fowl under two months of age, for use as household or domestic
pets; r. Sell, offer for sale, barter or give away living baby chicks,
ducklings or other fowl, or rabbits, turtles or chameleons under two months of
age for any purpose not prohibited by subsection q. of this section and who shall
fail to provide proper facilities for the care of such animals; s. Artificially
mark sheep or cattle, or cause them to be marked, by cropping or cutting off both
ears, cropping or cutting either ear more than one inch from the tip end thereof,
or half cropping or cutting both ears or either ear more than one inch from the
tip end thereof, or who shall have or keep in his possession sheep or cattle,
which he claims to own, marked contrary to this subsection unless they were bought
in market or of a stranger; t. Abandon a domesticated animal; u.
For amusement or gain, cause, allow, or permit the fighting or baiting of a living
animal or creature; v. Own, possess, keep, train, promote, purchase, or
knowingly sell a living animal or creature for the purpose of fighting or baiting
that animal or creature; or w. Gamble on the outcome of a fight involving
a living animal or creature-- Shall forfeit and pay a sum not to exceed
$250.00, except in the case of a violation of subsection "t." a mandatory
sum of $500, and $1,000 if the violation occurs on or near a roadway, to be sued
for and recovered, with costs, in a civil action by any person in the name of
the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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