4:5-12 - Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals - New Jersey Statutes

4:5-12.  Post-mortem examination of dead or slaughtered animals
    If, between October first and May first of any year, a veterinarian who has  been regularly graduated in veterinary medicine, desires to make a post-mortem  examination of an animal he has attended or at the request of the owner of an  animal that has died within the city limits, he may do so, if the examination  is made within twenty hours of the death or slaughter of the animal.

    In every such case he shall notify the city scavenger, or remover of carcasses of animals, of the hour of the examination, and the scavenger shall arrange to remove the carcass in not more than three hours after the beginning of the examination.