Public health laws.

  • New Jersey. Board of Health.
Date:
1907
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Credit: Public health laws. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Proviso. Cattle that have been sick not to mingle with other cattle without per- mit. Town com- mittee may prevent im- portation of cattle. Penalty for selling dis- eased cattle. remaining cattle or stock of said owner or owners shall be kept isolated from the sick ones and from all other cattle or stock; and both they and the sick animals shall be kept distant at least five hundred feet from every public highway or other road, and the same distance from the premises of any and all neigh- bors; and if any shall die of any contagious disease or shall be killed while so diseased the same shall be buried as soon as possible at the nearest convenient place, at least five hundred feet distant from any public highway or other road and the same distance from the premises of any and all neighbors, and not less than four feet below the surface of the ground; pro- vided, that in case the owner or owners of such cattle or stock are not in the possession of such premises as will enable them to provide such suitable and safe place of isolation or burial, the town committee are hereby authorized and empowered to assign a place on any premises adjoining or near thereto, with power to compensate the owner of such premises for the use of the same. 2. No cattle or stock that have been sick and are supposed to have recovered, or which have been isolated and separated by order of the said town committee, shall be removed or permitted to mingle with other cattle or stock until the said town com- mittee has given their permit. 3. This section has been eliminated, as it is apparently iur complete and' provides no penalty. 4. That the said town committee be authorized to prohibit the importation or passage of cattle from other places into or through their respective townships, and any person who shall import or drive any cattle into or through any township after the same shall have been publicly prohibited by the said town committee, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for every bull, ox, steer, cow, heifer or calf so driven into a township, and any person who shall interfere with or prevent the action of any town committee in conformity with the provisions of this act shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for each and every offense, and any person who shall disregard the provisions of section three shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars for each offense. 5. Any person who shall dispose of any cattle or stock, know- ing or having good reason to suppose it to be the subject of any contagious disease, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars for any such animal sold within the township, or one hundred dol- lars if sold and taken out of the township where the seller resides; and during the prevalence of any contagious disease amongst cattle or other stock, said township committee shall publish notice of the existence of such disease, and of the penal- ties prescribed in this act, by at least four notices in one or more of the newspapers published in the county and by posting printed notices thereof at the principal post-offices and public places in their township; and the fines and penalties named and provided for in this act shall be sued for by said town com- mittees in an action of debt in any court of competent jurisdic-