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NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-6 - Prohibiting attendance of teachers or pupils

26:4-6. Prohibiting attendance of teachers or pupils  Any body having control of a school may, on account of the prevalence of any communicable disease, or to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, prohibit the attendance of any teacher or pupil of any school under their control and specify the time during which the teacher or scholar shall remain away from school. a. (Deleted by amendment.) b. (Deleted by amendment.) c. (Deleted by amendment.) Amended by L.1974, c. 150, s. 4, eff. Nov. 11, 1974.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-8.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-8.1 - Immunization at public expense

26:4-8.1. Immunization at public expense  The State Department of Health and Local Boards of Health may provide at public expense, the necessary equipment, materials and services for immunizing people from the diseases which pupils are required to be immunized against by the State Sanitary Code or for diseases against which immunization may be recommended by the State Department of Health. L.1974, c. 150, s. 5, eff. Nov. 11, 1974.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-9 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-9 - Epidemic in state institution

26:4-9. Epidemic in state institution  Whenever an epidemic shall occur in an institution maintained in whole or in part by the state, the state department shall immediately take all necessary measures to check and control the epidemic.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-12 - Prohibiting sale of dairy product contaminated by communicable disease

26:4-12. Prohibiting sale of dairy product contaminated by communicable disease  When the state department shall have reason to believe that any milk, cream, skimmed milk, or other dairy product has been contaminated by the emanations, exhalations or discharges of any person affected with any communicable disease, or that any such dairy product has been or is produced, stored or kept on any premises upon which any source of a communicable disease exists, the department may issue an order in writing prohibiting the transportation or sale of such dairy product.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-13 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-13 - Removal of order prohibiting sale

26:4-13. Removal of order prohibiting sale  Every person upon whom any such order may be served shall obey it. The prohibition shall continue until the state department shall have had an opportunity to examine the matter, and shall have removed the prohibition by the service of another order in writing signed by the proper representative of the department.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-14 - Penalty for violation of prohibition

26:4-14. Penalty for violation of prohibition  Any person upon whom any such order of prohibition has been served who shall, prior to the removal of the prohibition, transport or sell any milk, cream, skimmed milk or other dairy product contrary to such prohibition, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars; and any other person who shall knowingly transport or sell any such dairy product so prohibited shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-15 - Reporting of communicable diseases by physicians

26:4-15. Reporting of communicable diseases by physicians  Every physician shall, within 12 hours after his diagnosis that a person is ill or infected with a communicable disease or other disease required by any law of this State, the State Sanitary Code, or ordinance, to be reported, report such diagnosis and such related information as may be required by the State Department of Health. In cases of venereal diseases, the report shall be made to the State Department of Health, and in other cases to the health officer or other officer or employee designated to receive such reports by the local board of health having jurisdiction of the area wherein the diagnosis was made, which officer or employee the local board of health is hereby authorized to designate. The report shall be in writing, and shall include the name of the reporting physician, the name of the disease, the name, age and precise location of the person ill or infected with the disease and such other information as may be required by regulation of the State Department of Health. Amended by L.1954, c. 263, p. 948, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-16 - Reporting of communicable diseases by house owner or householder

26:4-16. Reporting of communicable diseases by house owner or householder  Every house owner or householder who has reason to believe that any person living, dwelling or being in any building under his control is ill or infected with any disease required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported shall, when no physician has professionally attended the ill or infected person, within 12 hours after discovering the same, report the fact in person, by telephone or in writing to the health officer or other officer or employee designated to receive such reports by the local board of health having jurisdiction of the area. Amended by L.1954, c. 263, p. 949, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-17 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-17 - Physicians to report persons affected with disease on dairy premises

26:4-17. Physicians to report persons affected with disease on dairy premises  Every physician who shall attend any person ill or infected with any communicable disease required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported, on any premises where milk is produced for sale or distribution, shall report such fact to the State Department of Health within 12 hours after he has first ascertained that any such person is ill or infected with any of said diseases. The report shall be in writing and shall state the nature of the disease, the name of the person who is ill or infected with the disease, the location of the place where the person is ill or infected, the name of the owner or manager of the dairy premises if the same can be ascertained and such other information as may be required by regulation of the State Department of Health. Amended by L.1954, c. 263, p. 949, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-18 - Report when member of family of sick person is employed on dairy premises

26:4-18. Report when member of family of sick person is employed on dairy premises  Every physician who shall attend any person ill or infected with any of the communicable diseases required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported, having knowledge that a member of the family of, or any person living in the same family with, the ill or infected person is employed on any dairy premises where milk is produced for sale or distribution, shall report such fact to the State Department of Health in writing, within 12 hours after the physician has ascertained that such person is ill or infected or within 12 hours after gaining the information above mentioned. The report shall state the name of the person who is ill or infected, the nature of the disease, the location of the place where such person is ill or infected, the name of the member of the family or person living in the same family who is employed on the dairy premises, the name of the owner or manager thereof if it can be ascertained, the location of the dairy premises where such person is employed and such other information as may be required by regulation of the State Department of Health. Amended by L.1954, c. 263, p. 950, s. 4.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-19 - Report of persons affected with communicable diseases in institutions

26:4-19. Report of persons affected with communicable diseases in institutions  Every physician, superintendent or other person having control or supervision over a State, county or municipal hospital, sanatorium or other public or private institution in which any person ill or infected with any disease required by law or the State Sanitary Code to be reported is received for care or treatment shall, within 24 hours after any such patient has been received into the institution, report the fact to the health officer or other officer or employee designated to receive such reports by the local board of health having jurisdiction over the territory in which the institution is located. The report shall be in writing in the name of the physician, superintendent or other person having charge over the institution and shall set forth the name and age of the ill or infected person and the exact place of his residence or the name of the place from which he was received into the institution, together with the date upon which he was received and such other information as may be required by regulation of the State Department of Health. Amended by L.1954, c. 263, p. 950, s. 5.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-20 - Transmission of duplicate of report from institutions in certain cases

26:4-20. Transmission of duplicate of report from institutions in certain cases  Every person designated by any local board of health to receive reports of communicable diseases who shall receive any report of sickness from a physician, superintendent or other person having charge over any institution referred to in section 26:4-19 of this title shall, when the sick person referred to in the report resides in some municipality other than that in which the institution is located, make a duplicate of any such report received by him and transmit the same, within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the original, by mail, to the officer designated to receive the reports in the locality in which the sick person resided before being admitted into the institution.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-21 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-21 - Certificate of cases reported to local board

26:4-21. Certificate of cases reported to local board  On the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each year every physician, house owner or householder making any report of a communicable disease shall receive from the officer to whom the report was made during the preceding six months a certificate in writing under the hand of the officer setting forth the number of names reported.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-22 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-22 - Fee for cases reported to local board

26:4-22. Fee for cases reported to local board  The certificate, when presented to the proper disbursing officer of the municipality within which the affected person may have been, shall entitle the person making the report to receive the sum of ten cents for each name certified to have been reported, unless the report shall be found to have been erroneous.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-23 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-23 - Register of reported cases; inspection

26:4-23. Register of reported cases; inspection  The facts contained in the report of a communicable disease shall be entered by the officer to whom the report is delivered in a register kept for that purpose. The register shall be subject to the inspection of the local board and its proper officers and to the state department and its officers only.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-24 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-24 - Reports of local boards to state department

26:4-24. Reports of local boards to state department  The officer to whom the report of a communicable disease is delivered and whose duty it is to make a record of the same, shall, at least once each week, and daily when required by the state department, transmit by mail the facts stated therein to the state department and shall upon request by the state department give full information concerning the measures employed by the local board to prevent the spread of the diseases mentioned in the reports, which facts and information shall be conveyed to the state department in writing. Proof that the state department has not received the report of such facts and information from any officer shall be prima facie evidence that the same has not been transmitted to the department by the officer.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-26 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-26 - Fee for cases reported to state department

26:4-26. Fee for cases reported to state department  Upon presentation of a certificate of the number of cases reported to the State Department pursuant to section 26:4-24 of the Revised Statutes at least once per year the officer shall be entitled to receive from the proper disbursing officer of the municipality within the limits of which the sickness reported occurred, the sum of ten cents ($0.10) for each case certified as having been reported. Amended by L.1953, c. 325, p. 1872, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-27 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-27 - Definitions

26:4-27. Definitions  As used in this article: "Venereal disease" includes syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale. "Treating a venereal disease" includes the treatment of or attempt to treat a venereal disease by prescription, formula, patented or proprietary medicine or compound or otherwise, or the sale or gift, for the purpose of treating or attempting to treat such a disease, of any prescription, formula, patented or proprietary medicine or compound which either by itself or in connection with any other treatment, medicine, or compound is claimed to be useful, or to cure, relieve, or arrest in any way any venereal disease. "Licensed health officer" shall mean and include only a person holding office as a local health officer who holds a valid health officer's license issued by the State Department of Health. Amended by L.1945, c. 104, p. 448, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-28 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-28 - Venereal diseases declared infectious and communicable

26:4-28. Venereal diseases declared infectious and communicable  Syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum and granuloma inguinale are hereby declared to be infectious and communicable diseases, dangerous to the public health. Amended by L.1945, c. 104, p. 448, s. 2.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-29 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-29 - Determination of infectiousness; review

26:4-29. Determination of infectiousness; review  A case of venereal disease shall be regarded as infectious until a physician licensed to practice medicine has examined the case and reported to the local board that the case is not infectious, but if in the opinion of the local board of the jurisdiction the protection of the public health requires it, the board may review the case and cause a medical examination of any such case to be made by a physician designated by the board, and the opinion of such physician as to the infectiousness or noninfectiousness of the case shall be final.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-30 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-30 - Examination upon report from director.

26:4-30 Examination upon report from director.  26:4-30. When a local board or health officer receives a report from the director or from any person authorized by the director to make such report, that a person within the jurisdiction of the local board or health officer is, or is suspected to be, a person with a sexually transmitted infection, the board or health officer may cause a medical examination to be made of the person for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person is in fact a person with a sexually transmitted infection. Amended 2017, c.131, s.100.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-31 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-31 - Duty of suspected person to be examined; sex of examining physician

26:4-31. Duty of suspected person to be examined; sex of examining physician  Any person requested by the local board or health officer to be examined under the authority of section 26:4-30 of this title shall submit to examination and permit necessary specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examination. The examination shall be made by a physician of the same sex as the person being examined if the latter so requests.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-32 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-32 - Prostitute; examination; certificate prohibited

26:4-32. Prostitute; examination; certificate prohibited  A prostitute or other lewd person shall be considered a suspected person within the meaning of section 26:4-30 of this title and may be required to submit to examination at any time. No certificate of freedom from venereal disease shall be issued to any prostitute under any circumstances whatever.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-33 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-33 - Discovery of sources of infection

26:4-33. Discovery of sources of infection  The local board shall use all reasonable means to ascertain the existence of any case of venereal disease within its jurisdiction. It shall investigate any case or suspected case that is not under the care of a reputable physician, and shall ascertain so far as is possible every source of infection and every exposure to infection.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-34 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-34 - Duty of attending physician

26:4-34. Duty of attending physician  The physician in attendance upon a person having an infectious venereal disease, or suspected of having such disease, shall instruct the person in the precautionary measures for preventing the spread of the disease and the necessity for systematic and prolonged treatment. He also shall furnish to the person printed instructions for preventing infection, to be supplied to the physician by the state department on request.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-35 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-35 - Examination and quarantine of infected person failing to report to attending physician.

26:4-35 Examination and quarantine of infected person failing to report to attending physician.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-36 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-36 - Quarantine; persons who may be quarantined; duration; penalty

26:4-36. Quarantine; persons who may be quarantined; duration; penalty  Quarantine for venereal disease has the purpose of preventing transmission of venereal diseases and shall mean and include, restriction of the actions, behavior and movements of a person or confinement to a defined place and area. A local board or health officer or any physician shall report to the State department, and any licensed health officer or the State Director of Health or the authorized representative of either may quarantine for venereal disease the following persons: a. Any person who has or who is believed upon reasonable grounds to have a venereal disease in its infectious stage, if he is likely to spread the disease to others by reason of his failure or refusal to submit to treatment or by reason of his habits, or for any other reason. b. Any person who refuses or neglects to submit to a medical examination for venereal disease required under authority of any section of this article. c. Any person who refuses or neglects to supply, or to permit to be taken, the specimens required or requested under authority of any section of this article. d. Any person who refuses or neglects to submit to treatment for a venereal disease in an infectious stage. Such quarantine shall continue until the infected person is free from the disease or until such time as in the judgment of the health officer or his authorized representative who established the quarantine or by the State director or his authorized representative, it shall be safe for such infected person to be released from quarantine. Any person included in paragraphs b, c or d of this section shall be liable to the penalty provided for in section 26:4-49 in addition to the imposition of the penalty prescribed by section 26:4-129. Amended by L.1945, c. 104, p. 449, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-38 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-38 - Report of private cases to state department

26:4-38. Report of private cases to state department  The physician, nurse, or other person treating a venereal disease shall report the case immediately to the state department.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-39 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-39 - Report of institutional cases to DOH.

26:4-39 Report of institutional cases to DOH.  26:4-39. The physician, superintendent, or other person having control or supervision over any State, county, or municipal hospital, or other public or private institution shall report the following cases to the Department of Health immediately after they are received into the institution: a. A person with a sexually transmitted infection, who enters the institution to receive care or treatment for the infection. b. A person with any other disease, who enters the institution to receive care or treatment for that disease, but who is found also to be a person with a sexually transmitted infection. Amended 2017, c.131, s.102.
NJ Rev Stat § 26:4-40 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics|Section 26:4-40 - Contents of report

26:4-40. Contents of report  The report required by sections 26:4-38 and 26:4-39 of this title shall contain the following information: a. Name, address, color, sex, nationality, and the age as nearly as practicable, of the person so infected with a venereal disease; b. Character of the disease; c. Probable source of infection; and d. Whether the case has been previously reported or not; and if it has been reported, when, where, and by whom it was reported.