N.J. Stat. § 4:5-75.3: Rules and regulations

The Department of Agriculture is authorized to make and enforce rules and regulations for the arrest and eradication of foot-and-mouth disease, establish quarantines, and order the immediate slaughter of infected animals and animals which have been exposed to but are not affected with the disease.

L.1948, c. 436, p. 1686, s. 3.