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2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
26:4-35. If a person in the infectious stage of a sexually transmitted infection shall fail to report as directed to the physician in attendance for treatment, the physician shall report such failure to the local board, or to the Department of Health, which shall forward the information to the local board.
The local board may require such person to be examined as provided in sections 26:4-30 and 26:4-31 of this title. If upon examination the person is found to have a sexually transmitted infection in its infectious stage and does not present evidence to show that the person is being regularly treated by a licensed physician for the disease, the person shall be quarantined as described in sections 26:4-36 and 26:4-37 of this title.
Amended 2017, c.131, s.101.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-41 - Contents of reports secret; exceptions

26:4-41. Contents of reports secret; exceptions
No person shall disclose the name or address or the identity of any person known or suspected to have a venereal disease except to the person's physician or to a health authority, or, in the event of a prosecution under this article or under the criminal law of this State, to a prosecuting officer or to the court; provided, however, that the person's physician or a health authority may disclose the name, address or identity of such person when and only when the physician or health authority shall deem such disclosure necessary in order to protect the health or welfare of the person or of his family or of the public; and provided further, that nothing herein shall be construed as in any way restricting such disclosures to the State Department of Health.
Documents, records or reports which contain or would reveal the name, address or identity of a person known or suspected to have a venereal disease or treated for such a disease shall not be open to inspection except by an authorized representative of the State Department of Health or, in the event of a prosecution under this article or under the criminal laws of this State, by a prosecuting officer or the court; provided, however, that the custodian of any such documents, records or reports may permit inspection of them by a licensed physician or a health official whenever said custodian shall deem such inspection necessary in order to protect the health or welfare of the person or of his family or of the public and the custodian of any hospital record shall permit examination of such record in connection with any claim for compensation or damages for personal injury or death resulting therefrom by any person authorized by any other law to make such examination.
Amended by L.1945, c. 103, p. 446, s. 1; L.1952, c. 78, p. 409, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-46 - Free treatment by local board

26:4-46. Free treatment by local board
Any person suffering from a venereal disease in the infectious stage and who is unable to pay for treatment may apply for care and treatment to the local board having jurisdiction of the place in which he resides. If the board after investigation finds that the person is in fact unable to pay for treatment, it shall be provided without cost.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-47 - Free diagnosis and treatment by state department of health

26:4-47. Free diagnosis and treatment by state department of health
The State Department of Health may:
a. Provide appropriate laboratory services for the diagnosis of sexually-transmitted diseases;
b. Provide antibiotics and other appropriate drugs and biologicals for the treatment and prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases.
c. (Deleted by amendment.)
d. (Deleted by amendment.)
The Commissioner of Health may promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to payment for services and materials provided by the department hereunder, including a schedule of fees for such services and materials, consistent with the promotion of public health and the prevention of disease within the State.
Amended by L.1973, c. 74, s. 1, eff. April 11, 1973.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-48 - Rules and regulations; authority of State Director of Health as to quarantine or examination

26:4-48. Rules and regulations; authority of State Director of Health as to quarantine or examination
The State Department shall make and enforce any rule or regulation for the quarantining and treatment of a venereal disease which it may deem necessary for the protection of the public health.
The State Department of Health shall by rule and regulation define the stages of venereal diseases to be regarded as infectious within the meaning of this article.
The State Director of Health or any person or official authorized by him in writing for that purpose shall have the same power and authority as that conferred by any section or sections of this article upon any local board of health or health officer for the purposes of isolation or quarantine or to require or request examinations or submissions of specimens or treatment, observation or care for venereal diseases.
Amended by L.1945, c. 104, p. 452, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-48.1 - Optional treatment of persons opposed to medical treatment on religious grounds

26:4-48.1. Optional treatment of persons opposed to medical treatment on religious grounds
In any quarantine for venereal disease or any commitment or court order imposed by authority of this act upon any person who, since immediately prior to the onset of the person's infection with a venereal disease, has been continuously a member of a well-recognized church, the principles of which are opposed to medical treatment for disease, any requirement to follow a course of medical treatment shall be optional, but in such case the termination of the period of quarantine, commitment or applicability of the court order shall be determined by the duration of the infectious stage of the disease, as defined by the State Department of Health; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed as exempting any such person from any other provision of this act, including the requirements to submit to medical examination and to supply specimens or permit such specimens to be taken, where such person has or there are reasonable grounds to believe such person may have a venereal disease in an infectious stage.
L.1945, c. 104, p. 452, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-48.2 - Expedited partner therapy.

26:4-48.2 Expedited partner therapy.
1. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a health care professional who diagnoses a patient as having a sexually transmitted disease may provide expedited partner therapy to a sexual partner of the patient pursuant to this act.
b. Expedited partner therapy shall consist of the health care professional:
(1) prescribing or dispensing medication for the treatment of the sexually transmitted disease. The medication shall be prescribed or dispensed in the sexual partner's name or, if not known, in the name of "Expedited Partner Therapy," and provided to the patient to give to the sexual partner;
(2) providing the patient with printed informational materials, which have been distributed by the department pursuant to subsection a. of section 2 of this act, for the patient to give to the sexual partner; and
(3) requesting that the patient advise the sexual partner of the importance of seeking clinical treatment for the sexually transmitted disease from a health care professional.
The health care professional shall not be required to perform a clinical examination of the sexual partner as a condition of providing expedited partner therapy.
c. A health care professional may provide expedited partner therapy to any sexual partner of the patient, provided that:
(1) the patient indicates with reasonable certainty that the patient has had sexual contact with the sexual partner within the past 60 days under circumstances in which there was a risk of transmission of a sexually transmitted disease;
(2) the patient indicates with reasonable certainty that the sexual partner is unable or unwilling to seek clinical services in a timely manner; and
(3) the patient indicates with reasonable certainty that the patient will be able to contact the sexual partner for the purposes of providing expedited partner therapy.
d. As used in this act:
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health.
"Department" means the Department of Health.
"Health care professional" means a physician, advanced practice nurse, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistant who is authorized to issue prescriptions for the medications used in expedited partner therapy and for whom the treatment of sexually transmitted disease is within the physician's, advanced practice nurse's, certified nurse midwife's, or physician assistant's scope of training and practice.
L.2019, c.336, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-48.4 - Immunity from liability.

26:4-48.4 Immunity from liability.
3. a. Except in the case of gross negligence or willful misconduct, a health care professional who provides expedited partner therapy pursuant to this act, and a licensed pharmacist who dispenses a prescription for medication issued for expedited partner therapy pursuant to this act, shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action in connection with any act or omission taken in good faith consistent with the provisions of this act. A health care professional shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action for choosing not to provide expedited partner therapy.
b. Nothing in this act shall be construed to require a patient's health benefits plan or prescription benefits plan to pay for or provide reimbursement for anyone other than the patient who is provided expedited partner therapy pursuant to this act unless the person to whom expedited partner therapy is being provided is listed as a beneficiary under the patient's health benefits plan or prescription benefits plan.
L.2019, c.336, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49 - Additional penalty for second offense

26:4-49. Additional penalty for second offense
In case a defendant shall have been twice convicted, within the space of six months, of the violation of the same provision of this article and due proof of such fact is made, the court may, in addition to the imposition of the penalty prescribed by section 26:4-129 of this Title, cause the defendant to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any number of days not exceeding one for each dollar of the penalty.
Amended by L.1953, c. 26, p. 474, s. 37.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.1 - Blood sample, syphilis testing for pregnant women.

26:4-49.1 Blood sample, syphilis testing for pregnant women.
1. Every physician attending pregnant women in the State for conditions relating to their pregnancy during the period of gestation and/or at delivery shall, in the case of every woman so attended, take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of first examination and take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of the woman or from the umbilical cord of the infant at the time of delivery of a live infant, and shall submit such sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. Every other person permitted by law to attend pregnant women in the State, but not permitted by law to take blood samples, shall cause a sample of blood of such pregnant women or postpartum woman or infant, as the case may be, to be taken by a physician duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery and have such sample submitted to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis.
L.1938,c.41,s.1; amended 1997,c.230,s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.2 - Standard serological test; duty of State Department of Health

26:4-49.2. Standard serological test; duty of State Department of Health
For the purpose of this act a standard serological test shall be a test for syphilis approved by the State Department of Health, and shall be made at a laboratory licensed in syphilis serology by the department, or by a laboratory in this State approved to make such tests by said department, or at a laboratory outside this State approved by said department, or the health department of the state or territory of the United States or District of Columbia wherein it is located, or at a laboratory of the Armed Forces of the United States or the United States Public Health Services. Such laboratory tests as are required by this act may, at the option of the department, be performed in the laboratories of the State Department of Health without charge.
L.1938, c. 41, p. 116, s. 2. Amended by L.1971, c. 84, s. 1, eff. April 8, 1971.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.3 - Statement of blood test in birth or stillbirth report.

26:4-49.3 Statement of blood test in birth or stillbirth report.
3. In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the certificate whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child or from the umbilical cord of the infant for which a birth or stillbirth certificate is filed and the date when the specimen was taken.
L.1938,c.41,s.3; amended 1997,c.230,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.5 - Migrant laborers; definition

26:4-49.5. Migrant laborers; definition
For the purposes of this act "migrant laborer" shall mean any seasonal, temporary or migrant worker entering New Jersey and living in a tent, vehicle, building or structure used as living quarters directly or indirectly in connection with any work or place where work is being performed, whether or not rent is paid or reserved in connection with the use or occupancy of such premises.
L.1945, c. 102, p. 445, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.6 - Examination of migrant laborers; notice to State Department of Health

26:4-49.6. Examination of migrant laborers; notice to State Department of Health
Any migrant laborer who cannot show satisfactory evidence of examination for syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal diseases having been performed by a health department or licensed physician within ninety days prior to entry into New Jersey shall submit to such examination as prescribed by the State Department of Health within thirty days after such entry. Said examination shall be performed by a duly licensed physician chosen by the migrant laborer or provided by the State Department of Health.
Any person who shall employ one or more migrant laborers shall notify the State Department of Health within five days of the commencement of such employment whether such person or persons have been examined as required by this section.
L.1945, c. 102, p. 446, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.7 - Examination and treatment by order of court

26:4-49.7. Examination and treatment by order of court
1. When it appears to the Superior Court or to any municipal court, from the evidence or otherwise, that any person coming before such court on any charge, may have a venereal disease in an infectious stage, it shall be the duty of such court to order the person to submit to a medical examination for venereal diseases, in a jail or at a hospital or clinic or by such physician as may be selected or appointed for the purpose, and if found to have a venereal disease in an infectious stage to submit to treatment in such jail, hospital or clinic or by such officer or to other treatment permitted under the medical practice act.
L.1945,c.101,s.1; amended 1953,c.26,s.38; 1991,c.91,s.292.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-49.8 - Examination and treatment for venereal disease of inmates of institutions

26:4-49.8. Examination and treatment for venereal disease of inmates of institutions
The warden or other person in charge of any jail, house of correction, or other penal or correctional institution shall require and cause a medical examination for venereal diseases to be made of any person therein confined for a period of seven days or longer and such warden or other person in charge may require such examination to be made of any person therein confined for a shorter period of time. The superintendent or other person in charge of any detention or contagious disease hospital, or any State, county or city charitable institution shall require and cause a medical examination for venereal diseases to be made of all persons admitted as soon as practicable after admission. Any board or agency operating such jail or institution shall provide a physician licensed to practice medicine and suitable facilities, equipment and supplies to examine inmates for venereal disease and to treat any inmate who is known or found to have a venereal disease and who is in need of treatment. The warden, superintendent or other person in charge of such jail or institution may isolate any inmate who refuses to submit to such examination or who refuses to permit the taking of specimens or any inmate with an infectious venereal disease. If a person has a venereal disease or if any person has refused to submit to examination or to allow specimens to be taken, the warden, superintendent or other person in charge shall notify the State department and may also notify the local health officer of the expected date of release of such person and the facts of the case. Such notification shall be made, if possible, at least five days prior to the actual date of release, and shall be made not later than the day following the date of release in any case.
L.1945, c. 101, p. 444, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-57.1 - Application for financial aid

26:4-57.1. Application for financial aid
Any person declared by the department of health to be a carrier of the causative agent of typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or other disease the infective agent of which is transmissible through food to other persons may apply to the director of health for financial aid for medical or surgical treatment for such carrier condition and for hospital care and maintenance. In the case of a minor the parent or guardian of such person may make such application on his behalf.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-57.2 - Inquiry by director of health

26:4-57.2. Inquiry by director of health
Upon receipt of any such application the director shall inquire into the circumstances for the purpose of determining whether such person should properly receive medical or surgical treatment and hospital care as a result of the carrier condition and is unable to pay for such treatment and care, and whether such person is in need of aid for maintenance as a result of inability to earn a livelihood for himself or dependents because of restrictions placed upon such a carrier by the laws of this state or by regulations enacted by the state department of health to protect the public health.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-57.3 - Determination of kind and amount of aid; maximum annual amount

26:4-57.3. Determination of kind and amount of aid; maximum annual amount
If, after such inquiry, the director is satisfied that financial aid for any or all the purposes set forth above should be granted such person, he shall so report to the department of health setting forth facts found in said inquiry. If the department shall decide that financial aid for any or all the purposes set forth above should be granted such person, the department shall determine the kind and amount of such aid which shall be given and such aid shall then be given from state funds in such amounts, for such purpose or purposes and at such intervals as the director in conformity with the decision of the department shall certify; provided, that the total amount of such aid granted in any one fiscal year to any such carrier shall not exceed the sum of six hundred dollars.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-60 - Register of reported cases and examinations; inspection

26:4-60. Register of reported cases and examinations; inspection
The local board shall cause all reports of cases of tuberculosis, and the results of any examination showing the presence of the bacilli of tuberculosis to be recorded in a register of which it shall be the custodian.
Such register shall not be open to inspection by any person other than the State department and the local board. The local board shall not permit any such report or record to be divulged so as to disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates, except as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this article.
Amended by L.1977, c. 63, s. 6, eff. April 15, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-69 - Expenditure of appropriations

26:4-69. Expenditure of appropriations
The State department shall expend such sums as shall be annually appropriated for the study, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis.
Amended by L.1977, c. 63, s. 7, eff. April 15, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-70 - Rules and regulations by state department; distribution of copies; enforcement

26:4-70. Rules and regulations by state department; distribution of copies; enforcement
The State department shall make rules and regulations for the care of persons suffering with tuberculosis, and for preventing the spread of the disease.
The State department shall enforce the rules and regulations and see that they are enforced, for which purpose it may issue orders to local boards and practicing physicians. Every local board shall also enforce said rules and regulations.
Amended by L.1977, c. 63, s. 8, eff. April 15, 1977.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-71.3 - Person with communicable tuberculosis leaving hospital against medical advice; report.

26:4-71.3 Person with communicable tuberculosis leaving hospital against medical advice; report.
3. If any person who has tuberculosis in a communicable form shall leave any hospital against medical advice, the administrator shall report such person to the local board of health of the municipality in which such patient was residing when admitted to the hospital and to the Commissioner of Health within 12 hours. Such report shall be in writing and shall state whether the person has tuberculosis in a communicable form.
L.1949, c.196, s.3; amended 1977, c.63, s.9; 2017, c.131, s.103.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-73 - Duty to report to local board

26:4-73. Duty to report to local board
Whenever one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen or reddened, or show any unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, and no licensed practitioner of medicine is in attendance upon the infant at the time, the midwife, nurse, attendant or relative having charge of such infant shall report the fact in writing, within six hours, to the local board of health having jurisdiction over the locality in which the parents of the infant reside.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-74 - Compulsory treatment

26:4-74. Compulsory treatment
Upon receipt of such report the local board shall direct the parents or persons having charge of such infant to place the infant immediately under the care of a licensed physician, or under the care of the physician of the local municipal government of the locality over which the local board has jurisdiction, if the parents are unable to pay for medical services.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-75 - Distribution of copies of law

26:4-75. Distribution of copies of law
The local board shall furnish a copy of this article to every licensed physician, nurse, and midwife, and any other person deemed proper by the local board in the locality over which the board has jurisdiction, and the state department shall cause a sufficient number of such copies to be printed to supply each local board with the necessary quantity.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-76 - Free remedies

26:4-76. Free remedies
The state department shall furnish, free of cost, to a licensed physician or midwife, any prophylactic remedy which it deems best for the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum, together with instructions which it considers necessary for the proper administration of the same.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-77 - Violations; penalty; recovery

26:4-77. Violations; penalty; recovery
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00) to be recovered in a civil action by the local board of the municipality in which the violation occurs.
Amended by L.1953, c. 26, p. 476, s. 46.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-78 - Report of suspected cases of rabies

26:4-78. Report of suspected cases of rabies
Whenever a dog, cat or other animal is affected by rabies or suspected of being affected by rabies or has been bitten by an animal known or suspected to be affected by rabies, the owner or person in charge of the animal or any person having knowledge thereof, shall forthwith notify the local board having jurisdiction of the place where the animal is located. The notification shall be in writing, signed by the person making the same and shall state where the animal may be found.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-79 - Report by physician attending person bitten by animal

26:4-79. Report by physician attending person bitten by animal
Every physician shall, within twelve hours after his first professional attendance upon any person bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, report to the person designated by law or by the local board, under authority of law, to receive reports of reportable communicable diseases in the municipality in which the person so bitten may be, the name, age, sex, color and the precise location of the person so bitten.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-80 - Report by parent or guardian when child is bitten and no physician attends

26:4-80. Report by parent or guardian when child is bitten and no physician attends
The parent or guardian of a child bitten by a dog, cat or other animal, when no physician attends such child, shall within twelve hours after first having knowledge that the child was so bitten, report to the person designated by law or by the local board, under authority of law, to receive reports of reportable communicable diseases in the municipality in which the child so bitten may be, the name, age, sex, color and the precise location of the child.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-81 - Report when adult is bitten and no physician attends

26:4-81. Report when adult is bitten and no physician attends
If an adult is bitten by a dog, cat or other animal and no physician attends him, the adult, or if he is incapacitated, the person caring for him, shall report to the person designated by law or by the local board of health to receive reports of communicable diseases in the municipality in which the adult so bitten may be, the name, age, sex, color and the precise location of the adult.
The report shall be made within twelve hours after the adult was so bitten, or if he is incapacitated, the report shall be made within twelve hours after the person caring for him shall first have knowledge that the adult was so bitten.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-82 - Confining animal which has attacked or bitten person

26:4-82. Confining animal which has attacked or bitten person
The local board, within its jurisdiction, may serve notice upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal which has attacked or bitten a person, to confine the animal at the expense of the owner or person in charge of it upon the premises of the owner or person in charge or at some other place designated in the notice, for at least ten days after the animal has attacked or bitten a person.