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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-83 - Killing or confining animal bitten by another

26:4-83. Killing or confining animal bitten by another
The local board, within its jurisdiction, shall serve a notice, in writing, upon the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal known or suspected to have been bitten by an animal known or suspected of being affected by rabies, requiring the owner or person in charge of the animal to kill it or confine it for a period of not less than six months.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-84 - Confining animals to prevent spread of rabies

26:4-84. Confining animals to prevent spread of rabies
Whenever the local board or any officer or inspector thereof has reason to believe or has been notified by the State Department that there is danger that rabies may spread within the jurisdiction of such board, such board, officer or inspector shall serve a notice, in writing, upon all persons within the jurisdiction of such board, so far as the same may be known to the board or to such officer or inspector thereof, owning or having charge of any dog, requiring such person to confine such dog, or such board, officer or inspector in lieu of serving such notice, in writing, may cause a notice to be published in the official newspaper of such municipality. Other animals may be included in the order whenever, in the opinion of such board, this is necessary.
Whenever the State Department has knowledge that any case of rabies exists among dogs or other domestic animals, within the State, and in its judgment the disease is liable to spread, the department may issue an order requiring any local board to order animals confined as provided in this section, and to cause its provisions to be enforced, by appropriate proceedings either in law or in equity.
Amended by L.1939, c. 201, p. 578, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-86 - Examination of animals by local board

26:4-86. Examination of animals by local board
26:4-86. The local board or the duly authorized agent of the board, within its jurisdiction, shall be permitted by the owner or person in charge of a dog, cat or other animal which has attacked or bitten a person, to examine the animal at any time, and daily if desired, within a period of 10 days after the animal has attacked or bitten a person, to determine whether the animal shows symptoms of rabies.
If the animal dies within the 10-day confinement period or if the owner or person in charge of the animal chooses to euthanize the animal at any time during the confinement period, the local board may order a laboratory examination for rabies to be performed on the dead animal, in compliance with section 2 of P.L.2021, c.436 (C.26:4-86.2).
Except as provided for in section 2 of P.L.2021, c.436 (C.26:4-86.2), no person shall refuse, obstruct, or interfere with the local board in making any examination authorized pursuant to this section.
Amended 1989,c.297,s.1; 2021, c.436, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-86.1 - Findings, declarations.

26:4-86.1 Findings, declarations.
1. The Legislature finds and declares that: pets are important in the lives of their owners and are often integral to the owner's well-being and emotional and mental health; a domestic companion animal, the term often used for a pet in State law, may provide companionship to its owner as important as the owner's human companions and family members and, in some cases, may be the owner's only companion in the household; a domestic companion animal is often as treasured as a family member; the loss of a domestic companion animal can be mourned with the same depth of emotion as the loss of a human family member and may have a profound effect on the mental health of an owner; organizations such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the National Association on Mental Illness have noted the effectiveness of animal therapy in treating or managing mental illness and the benefits attributed to the unconditional acceptance and affection received from interacting with an animal; because of the importance of a domestic companion animal to its owner its illness or death is traumatic for the owner, particularly when the owner authorizes euthanizing the animal; such trauma is unnecessarily exacerbated when the owner is not properly notified about procedures that are required in connection with the disposition of the remains of the domestic companion animal; and failure to forewarn the owner of any necessary dismemberment of the animal for public health reasons is wrongful and unnecessarily injurious to the owner.
The Legislature therefore determines that it is the public policy of the State to require those caring for an animal, including veterinarians and staff at animal hospitals, to: (1) clearly communicate to the owner the tests and procedures required and how the tests and procedures may affect the condition of the animal's body after death; and (2) disclose whether the remains of the animal can be returned to the owner, and the condition of the those remains. The Legislature further determines that the importance of the connection between domestic companion animals and their owners needs to be recognized and addressed by those who treat animals, euthanize them, and handle their remains after death.
L.2021, c.436, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-88 - Circular on rabies; distribution

26:4-88. Circular on rabies; distribution
The state department shall prepare a circular containing a description of the symptoms, the methods of transmission, the treatment, and the preventive measures to be taken against the spread of rabies, and, upon application, shall provide sufficient copies of the circular for distribution.
The circulars shall be furnished to the person empowered under the law to license dogs, and if there is no provision for such person within the jurisdiction of the local board of health, the local board is empowered to act. Such person or board shall apply to the state department for a sufficient number of such circulars, and shall, at the time of licensing, furnish a copy of the circular to each person who may obtain a dog license.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-89 - Free Pasteur treatment

26:4-89. Free Pasteur treatment
Each local board may furnish without charge the Pasteur treatment for any indigent person, residing within its jurisdiction, who has been bitten by an animal known or suspected to be affected by rabies.
Any expense thus incurred shall be provided for by the governing body having charge of the finances of the municipality in which the indigent person resides in the same manner as the regular funds of the board are provided for.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-94 - Penalties; recovery.

26:4-94 Penalties; recovery.
26:4-94. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article, or any notice served thereunder, shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for the first offense, and not less than $50 nor more than $250 for each subsequent offense, to be recovered in a civil action brought by and in the name of the Department of Health or a local board. Penalties hereunder shall be enforced and collected pursuant to R.S.26:3-72, R.S.26:3-77 and R.S.26:3-78.
amended 1939, c.201, s.2; 1942, c.41; 1953, c.26, s.47; 2014, c.69, s.5; 2021, c.436, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-95.1 - Establishment and conduct of virology program; objectives

26:4-95.1. Establishment and conduct of virology program; objectives
The State Department of Health is hereby directed to establish and conduct a virology program having as its objectives:
(a) the furnishing of services as may be necessary to establish the presence of virus diseases, and to establish epidemiological control of virus diseases as well as those services necessary to determine the effectiveness of control measures.
(b) development of improved techniques or methodologies in establishing the presence of virus diseases and the control thereof.
L.1958, c. 24, p. 74, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-95.3 - Findings, declarations relative to HPV.

26:4-95.3 Findings, declarations relative to HPV.
1. The Legislature finds and declares that:
a. The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and can be transmitted without intercourse;
b. Although most HPV infections are benign and many strains clear on their own, certain strains have serious consequences, including cervical cancer and genital warts;
c. HPV has been detected in over 90% of cervical cancer cases, and the American Cancer Society estimates that over 9,700 new cases of HPV-related cervical cancer will occur in the United States this year; and
d. It is appropriate to take measures through education to significantly reduce medical problems and deaths attributable to HPV.
L.2007, c.134, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-95.4 - Public awareness campaign about HPV.

26:4-95.4 Public awareness campaign about HPV.
3. a. The Commissioner of Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Education and the Director of the Division on Women in the Department of Children and Families, shall establish a public awareness campaign to inform the general public about the clinical significance and public health implications of the human papillomavirus, including its causes and the most effective means of prevention and treatment. The public awareness campaign shall be established in accordance with accepted public health practice and recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and within the limits of available funds and any other resources available for the purposes thereof.
b. The commissioner shall prepare a patient information brochure regarding the human papillomavirus, including its causes and the most effective means of prevention and treatment. The department shall distribute the pamphlet, at no charge, to all pediatricians in the State. The department shall update the pamphlet as necessary, and shall make additional copies of the pamphlet available to other health care providers upon request.
L.2007, c.134, s.3; amended 2012, c.16, s.51; 2012, c.17, s.338.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-96 - Laboratory supplies

26:4-96. Laboratory supplies
The state department may prepare in the state bacteriological laboratory culture media, stains, solutions, cultures, cultural products, and other laboratory supplies which may be useful to the county or municipal laboratories, physicians, or pharmacists in this state.
Such materials may be sold at prices fixed by the state department to county and municipal laboratories, physicians, and pharmacists in this state under rules and regulations adopted by the department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-97 - Disposition of receipts from sale of supplies

26:4-97. Disposition of receipts from sale of supplies
All moneys received from the sale of such laboratory supplies shall be paid by the state department to the state treasurer and shall be added to the amount appropriated for the support of the bacteriological laboratory, and shall be expended by the state department for the maintenance of the laboratory.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-98 - Impure biological products; prohibiting sale or use of

26:4-98. Impure biological products; prohibiting sale or use of
If the state department ascertains that any vaccine virus, antitoxin, or other biological product sold, or offered for sale, or held for sale or use for prophylactic or remedial purposes is dangerous to human health, or so impure or inert as to be inefficacious in rendering immune or less susceptible to disease any person in whom the product may be used, the department may prohibit the further sale or use of such product or any other biological product manufactured or produced by the same party.
No person shall knowingly sell or offer for sale, or use, or offer for use, any such prohibited product.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-99 - Free distribution of toxoid and vaccine; appropriation

26:4-99. Free distribution of toxoid and vaccine; appropriation
The state department may purchase and distribute free, in accordance with rules of the department, diphtheria toxoid or toxin-antitoxin, or both, and smallpox vaccine.
For the purchase and distribution of such materials and for expenses incident to such distribution and the keeping of records of the use of such materials, the department may expend such sum as shall be appropriated in any annual or supplemental appropriation act.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.1 - Anti-pneumococcic serum; purchase and distribution free by State Department of Health

26:4-100.1. Anti-pneumococcic serum; purchase and distribution free by State Department of Health
The Department of Health of the State of New Jersey is hereby authorized to purchase and to distribute free, anti-pneumococcic serum for the treatment of persons affected with pneumonia and for determining the type of pneumococci from persons suspected or known to have the disease.
L.1938, c. 24, p. 97, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.2 - Anti-pneumococcic serum; supplying free to licensed physicians

26:4-100.2. Anti-pneumococcic serum; supplying free to licensed physicians
Anti-pneumococcic serum may be supplied free by the said department to a physician licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey only after he has signed an application which shall contain a statement that the person to be treated is affected with pneumonia and is financially unable to purchase the serum, and such other facts as the State Department of Health may require, including the name and address of the patient, the type of pneumococci present, the duration of the disease and the amount of serum requested.
The said department may review any such application for serum and if it finds a false or misleading statement as to the ability of the person to pay for the serum, a bill therefor shall be presented to said person.
L.1938, c. 24, p. 97, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.3 - Rules and regulations by State Department of Health

26:4-100.3. Rules and regulations by State Department of Health
The State Department of Health shall be and is hereby empowered to make necessary rules and regulations for the purpose of administering this act.
L.1938, c. 24, p. 98, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.4 - Typhoid vaccine and other biologicals and antibiotics; free distribution

26:4-100.4. Typhoid vaccine and other biologicals and antibiotics; free distribution
The Department of Health of the State of New Jersey is hereby authorized, within the limits of available appropriations therefor, to purchase and to distribute free, in accordance with rules of said department, typhoid vaccine, other biologicals, and antibiotics, for use in preventing or treating communicable diseases.
L.1942, c. 148, p. 444, s. 1. Amended by L.1947, c. 323, p. 1048, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.5 - Expenditures authorized

26:4-100.5. Expenditures authorized
For the purchase and distribution of the said materials, and for expenses incident to such distribution and the keeping of records of the use of said material, the said department is hereby authorized to expend such sum as shall be appropriated by any law, or such amount as may be available to the department for other biological products, or which may otherwise be available.
L.1942, c. 148, p. 444, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.6 - Poliomyelitis vaccine; regulation of purchase, sale, distribution and use

26:4-100.6. Poliomyelitis vaccine; regulation of purchase, sale, distribution and use
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State that no child shall be denied vaccination against poliomyelitis because of inability to pay the cost thereof. It is hereby found that there exists a shortage of poliomyelitis vaccine (hereinafter referred to as "the vaccine") and that the public interest requires that the purchase, sale, distribution and use of the vaccine shall, so long as the shortage shall exist, be controlled and regulated as herein provided, to the end that fair and equitable distribution may be had and the vaccine be administered to children and others in accordance with priority groups based on the relative susceptibility of various age groups of children and others to poliomyelitis.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 230, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.7 - Purchase of vaccine to supplement federal grants; distribution

26:4-100.7. Purchase of vaccine to supplement federal grants; distribution
The State Commissioner of Health (hereinafter referred to as "the commissioner") is authorized and directed, without compliance with chapter 48 of the laws of 1954, to purchase poliomyelitis vaccine supplementing that which may be made available pursuant to conditions of Federal grants in sufficient quantities to inoculate children of this State who shall not have attained the age of 20 years and for whom free vaccine is not available through the auspices of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis or because of inability to pay the cost thereof. The commissioner shall distribute the vaccine so purchased or acquired under such plan, procedures and regulations as to him shall appear necessary or appropriate to accomplish the objective of providing the vaccine without cost for such children, fairly and equitably, according to priority groups based upon the relative susceptibility of various age groups of children to poliomyelitis as determined by the commissioner and upon such evidence or assurances of use for such children as to the commissioner shall appear to be adequate and consistent with expeditious distribution of the vaccine.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 231, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.8 - Federal grants

26:4-100.8. Federal grants
The commissioner on behalf of the State is authorized and directed to apply for and receive Federal grants of the vaccine or funds therefor and to use such funds for the purchase of the vaccine in accordance with the conditions of such grants and for distribution as provided in section 2 of this act, and to make such reports and establish such methods and procedures as may be required for such Federal grants.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 231, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.9 - Participation and cooperation of other State departments

26:4-100.9. Participation and cooperation of other State departments
In carrying out the purposes of this act the commissioner is authorized to enlist the participation and co-operation of the State Department of Education, the Division of Purchase and Property, the Division of Civil Defense and any other department or division which in his opinion may be of assistance to him, and every such department or division, so enlisted, is authorized and directed so to assist the commissioner.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 231, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.10 - Powers of Commissioner; violation

26:4-100.10. Powers of Commissioner; violation
(a) The commissioner shall have the power and authority, upon a finding that the vaccine continues to be in short supply, to make, promulgate, suspend, repeal and enforce rules and regulations concerning the purchase, sale, distribution, and use of the vaccine, to the end that the vaccine, whether distributed by an agency of the State or through private channels, shall be fairly and equitably available to all children and others in accordance with priority groups based on the relative susceptibility of various age groups of children and others to poliomyelitis, as found and determined by the commissioner and prohibiting the sale, offer to sell, purchase, distribution and use of the vaccine in contravention of such rules and regulations. No person shall buy, sell, offer to sell, distribute or use the vaccine except in accordance with such rules and regulations.
(b) Such rules and regulations and all amendments thereof may be adopted with or without public hearing; shall be filed with the Secretary of State; and shall become effective immediately upon the filing thereof, unless otherwise therein provided.
(c) Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this act or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, or who conspires with or knowingly aids, abets or assists another to do so, is a disorderly person.
(d) The expiration or other termination of a rule or regulation shall not terminate or affect the liability of a person for violation thereof or of this act.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 232, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.11 - Appropriation for purchase of vaccine

26:4-100.11. Appropriation for purchase of vaccine
In addition to the sums appropriated to the State Department of Health during the fiscal year 1955-56, there is hereby appropriated out of the general treasury for the period between the date of the enactment of this act and June 30, 1956, the sum of $570,000.00 for the purchase of the vaccine and for no other purpose.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 232, s. 6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.12 - General appropriation

26:4-100.12. General appropriation
For carrying out the provisions of this act in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1956, there shall be appropriated to the State Department of Health any unexpended balances remaining from the appropriation contained in section 6 of this act.
L.1955, c. 69, p. 233, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-100.13 - "Hepatitis Inoculation Fund," created; eligibility

26:4-100.13. "Hepatitis Inoculation Fund," created; eligibility
2. a. There is created in the Department of Health the "Hepatitis Inoculation Fund," hereinafter referred to as the "fund." The fund shall be a separate, nonlapsing, revolving account and shall be administered by the Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Control in the Department of Health and all moneys deposited in the fund pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1993, c.227 (N.J.S.2C:64-6) shall be used for the provision of hepatitis inoculations to the following persons, in order of eligibility, and for related administrative costs:
(1) volunteer emergency medical technicians-ambulance and volunteer firefighters;
(2) all other emergency medical technicians-ambulance, firefighters and police officers in squads or departments with less than 100 members; and
(3) all other emergency medical technicians-ambulance, firefighters and police officers.
The Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Communicable Disease Control shall promulgate rules and regulations in order to effectuate the purposes of this fund.
b. A person whose medical insurance policy pays for the full cost of the hepatitis inoculation shall not receive payment for an inoculation administered pursuant to subsection a. of this section. A person whose medical insurance policy pays for a portion of the cost of hepatitis inoculation may be reimbursed for the unpaid portion from the Hepatitis Inoculation Fund.
L.1993,c.227,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-101 - Permit to land infected vessel

26:4-101. Permit to land infected vessel
No vessel infected with a communicable disease, and no vessel on board of which there is any person, baggage, merchandise or materials infected with such disease, shall be brought to any wharf, nor shall any person or cargo so infected, or person, baggage, merchandise or materials on any vessel so infected, land or be landed at any place until a permit to do so has been obtained from the local board having jurisdiction of the place where it is intended to bring the vessel to wharf, or to land the person, baggage, merchandise or materials.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-102 - Examination and quarantine

26:4-102. Examination and quarantine
A permit shall not be granted until after the vessel, and every person and the baggage, merchandise or materials on it, has been examined, cleansed, ventilated, and purified, and a quarantine period has been observed. The state department is authorized to make regulations or to issue special orders with respect to the examination, cleansing, ventilation, purification, and the quarantine period required preliminary to the issuance of a permit.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-103 - Removal to quarantine station

26:4-103. Removal to quarantine station
The local board may, whenever in its judgment the protection of the public health requires it, order the master or commander of any vessel within its jurisdiction to remove the vessel to a place of safety to be designated by the board, and to order any person, baggage, merchandise or materials which have been landed from the vessel to be seized and returned to the vessel or taken to some other place of safety to be designated by the board.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-105 - Landing after removal to quarantine station

26:4-105. Landing after removal to quarantine station
The master or commander shall not, after the issuance of an order under the provisions of section 26:4-103 of this title, bring his vessel to any landing place within the jurisdiction of the local board, or land any person, baggage, merchandise or materials from the vessel at any place within that jurisdiction, until a permit has been granted by the local board as required in section 26:4-101 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-106 - Deposit of landing permit from other quarantine station

26:4-106. Deposit of landing permit from other quarantine station
No vessel coming from any foreign or domestic port, which shall pass any quarantine station, located in Long Island sound, or in New York bay, whose master or commander has obtained a written permit from the proper quarantine officer at any of these quarantine stations to proceed with his vessel to any place in the state of New Jersey, shall be brought to any wharf, and no passenger, baggage, merchandise or materials on board of any such vessel shall land or be landed at any place until the master or commander shall deposit his permit at the office of the local board of health of the place of destination named in the permit. Such deposit shall be made within twenty-four hours after receiving the permit. In addition to the deposit of such permit, the master or commander shall obtain a permit to land as required by section 26:4-101 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-107 - Issuance of permit without examination or quarantine

26:4-107. Issuance of permit without examination or quarantine
If the local board, or the officer acting for it, shall have no reason to believe that such vessel, or any person, baggage, merchandise or materials on the vessel, is infected with a communicable disease, a permit to land shall be granted upon the deposit of the permit issued by the quarantine officer as required in section 26:4-106 of this title.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-108 - Refusal of permit

26:4-108. Refusal of permit
If the local board, or the officer acting for it, has reason to believe that the vessel, or any person, baggage, merchandise or materials on it, is infected with any communicable disease, no permit to land shall be granted, except subject to any regulation or special order prescribed by the state department.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-109 - Anchorage of vessels at Perth Amboy

26:4-109. Anchorage of vessels at Perth Amboy
The following vessels shall come to anchor at some place designated by the Perth Amboy port health officer for the purpose of inspection:
a. Every vessel which, between the first day of March and the first day of December in any year, or within any other time in any year designated by resolution of the state department, shall come into that portion of the waters of this state known as Raritan bay or Sandy Hook bay south of a straight line extending from Ward's point to the northerly extremity of Sandy Hook and comes from:
1. Any port in the United States south of Cape Henlopen;
2. Any West India, Bahama, or Bermuda island port; or
3. Any port or place where any communicable disease exists.
b. Every vessel which, at any time during the year, comes into the waters enumerated in paragraph "a" of this section on board of which:
1. Any person shall have died while at any port in the United States south of Cape Henlopen or at any foreign port, or while between any such port and Raritan bay or Sandy Hook bay;
2. There is any baggage, merchandise or materials by which any communicable disease may be introduced into this state; or
3. The Perth Amboy port health officer shall have reason to believe that any person may be sick with any communicable disease or that there may be any baggage, merchandise or materials by which any communicable disease may be introduced into this state.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-110 - Anchorage place

26:4-110. Anchorage place
The anchorage place described in section 26:4-109 of this title shall be southward of a straight line extending from the south ferry wharf in Perth Amboy to the house on Staten Island formerly of Caleb Ward, as well as southward and eastward of a straight line extending from the south ferry wharf to the most easterly wharf of South Amboy.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-112 - Duties of Perth Amboy port health officer

26:4-112. Duties of Perth Amboy port health officer
Whenever any such vessel shall arrive at the designated anchorage place, the Perth Amboy port health officer shall, subject to any regulation or special order of the state department:
a. Visit the vessel and examine the sanitary conditions of the vessel, and of any person, baggage, merchandise or materials on board;
b. Order the vessel, and any baggage, merchandise or materials on board, to be cleansed, ventilated, and purified under his supervision and direction, and for that purpose to require the vessel to be unloaded if necessary;
c. Order the vessel to be detained at quarantine for any period after the vessel, and baggage, merchandise or materials on board shall have been so cleansed, ventilated, and purified, which any regulation or special instruction of the state department may require;
d. Prescribe a quarantine station for such vessel;
e. Prohibit and prevent communication with any infected vessel; and
f. Detain and isolate any infected person.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-113 - Powers of Perth Amboy port health officer

26:4-113. Powers of Perth Amboy port health officer
The Perth Amboy port health officer also shall have power with reference to such vessel, subject to any regulation or special order of the state department:
a. To grant a permit to land any passenger, baggage, merchandise or materials;
b. To grant a permit to discharge any baggage, merchandise or materials into lighters or otherwise;
c. To release such vessel from quarantine; and
d. To give any other orders which he may think necessary for the prevention of the introduction into this state of any communicable disease.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-116 - Temporary port health officer; term; compensation

26:4-116. Temporary port health officer; term; compensation
Whenever, in time of threatened epidemic or injury to the public health, the state department shall consider that a health officer should be appointed for any port or maritime place other than Perth Amboy, the state department may appoint a competent person as temporary port health officer for such place, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the department and shall receive as compensation for his services the fees which he collects under this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-117 - Powers and duties of temporary port health officer

26:4-117. Powers and duties of temporary port health officer
A temporary port health officer shall exercise all the powers conferred upon, and perform all the duties required of, the local board of health by this article. He shall wholly supersede the local board having jurisdiction of the place for which he may be appointed in the exercise of such powers and the performance of such duties.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-118 - Fees

26:4-118. Fees
The following fees shall be paid to the local board or port health officer:
a. For examination of every vessel from a foreign port, five dollars.
b. For examination of every vessel from any port in the United States south of Cape Henlopen, if a steamer, three dollars, and if other than a steamer, one dollar.
c. For medical examination of every one hundred, or fraction of one hundred, steerage passengers upon transatlantic vessels, two dollars.
d. For each permit granted for the landing of persons, or discharging of baggage, merchandise or materials, and for every release of a vessel from quarantine, twenty-five cents.
e. For sanitary inspection of every vessel after the discharge of cargo or ballast, ten dollars.
f. For disinfection of every vessel from an infected port, and of every vessel that shall require disinfection by reason of exposure to infection or contagion, fifty dollars.
g. For vaccination of persons on board of any vessel on which smallpox has developed during the voyage, twenty-five cents each.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-120 - Fees to be paid to state treasurer

26:4-120. Fees to be paid to state treasurer
All fees collected by the Perth Amboy port health officer or by his deputy, under the provisions of this article, shall be paid monthly to the state treasurer. Such health officer shall also give to the state treasurer a full account of all fees collected during the preceding calendar month.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-121 - Payment of expenses and fees

26:4-121. Payment of expenses and fees
All expenses incurred by, and all fees becoming due to, any port health officer or local board, or any of their employees, for services rendered or duties performed under the provisions of this article or under any regulation prescribed by the state department shall be paid by the master, commander, or owner of the vessel in relation to which the duties shall be performed or services rendered.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-122 - Expenses, fees, and costs; lien on vessel

26:4-122. Expenses, fees, and costs; lien on vessel
The port health officer or local board to whom any moneys shall be due on account of any expense or fees shall have a lien for the amount of the expenses or fees, and for all costs of suit and such counsel fee for the plaintiff as the court may allow, upon the vessel, its tackle, apparel and furniture.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-125 - Duty of commander to obey orders

26:4-125. Duty of commander to obey orders
The master, commander, or other person in charge of any vessel concerning which, or concerning any person, baggage, merchandise or materials on board of which, any order may be given by the local board or port health officer, or by the state department, shall cause the order to be obeyed.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-127 - Regulations of state department

26:4-127. Regulations of state department
The state department shall have the power, from time to time, to adopt, alter, and amend regulations prescribing the manner and form in which the local board and the port health officer shall exercise the powers conferred upon and perform the duties required of them by this article.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-128 - Violations of article; misdemeanor

26:4-128. Violations of article; misdemeanor
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. On conviction he shall be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-129 - Liability to penalties in general

26:4-129. Liability to penalties in general
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, a person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, or fails to perform any duty imposed by this chapter at the time and in the manner provided, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-130 - Proceedings for recovery of penalties; disposition

26:4-130. Proceedings for recovery of penalties; disposition
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter, any penalty incurred for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be sued for and recovered by the State department, or by the local board of the municipality within which the violation occurred.
Every municipal court shall have jurisdiction over proceedings to enforce and collect any such penalty, if the violation has occurred within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. The proceedings shall be summary and in accordance with the Penalty Enforcement Law (N.J.S. 2A:58-1 et seq.). Process shall be either in the nature of a summons or warrant.
The court may cause any defendant who shall fail to pay forthwith the amount of the judgment rendered against him, and all costs and charges incident thereto, to be committed to the county jail for any period not exceeding ninety days.
All moneys recovered in any such proceedings shall be paid to the plaintiff therein and applied by such plaintiff to any purpose for which it may be legally authorized to expend money.
Amended by L.1953, c. 26, p. 476, s. 48.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-132 - Findings, declarations relative to Statewide automated and electronic immunization registry.

26:4-132 Findings, declarations relative to Statewide automated and electronic immunization registry.
2. The Legislature finds and declares that the establishment of a Statewide automated and electronic immunization registry will serve the following public health purposes:
a. ensure the greatest possible protection to the public from morbidity and death related to infectious diseases preventable by appropriate and timely immunizations;
b. establish the public health infrastructure necessary:
(1) to assist individuals and families to maximize their personal protection from vaccine-preventable diseases in as efficient and efficacious a manner as possible;
(2) for community-wide and population-specific surveillance of potential susceptibility to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases; and
(3) for an effective response to a bio-terrorism event utilizing a potentially vaccine-preventable disease organism or to an epidemic or pandemic outbreak of a novel influenza virus of unusual virulence;
c. ensure that a registrant, or the registrant's parent or legal guardian if the registrant is a minor, can more easily obtain from his health care provider or local health authority, or by other means as determined by the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services, the registrant's full immunization history if the registrant changes health care providers or requires documentation of immunization;
d. provide health care providers, licensed child care centers, schools, colleges, and other public agencies and private organizations authorized to access the immunization registry with information concerning immunizations and other preventive health screenings, and the ability to determine relevant immunization and other preventive health screening histories of the individuals whom they serve;
e. provide the State with greatly improved accuracy in its records concerning immunization rates among the State's residents;
f. improve the State's ability to respond to outbreaks of communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases in a manner that reduces the risk of unnecessary additional immunizations;
g. enable the efficient allocation of public health resources to provide the widest possible protection of the general population from vaccine-preventable diseases;
h. ensure that all vulnerable children can be brought to completed immunization status as quickly as possible following manufacturing or distribution delays that may occur; and
i. establish the legal and administrative framework necessary to ensure a properly functioning, universal, Statewide immunization registry inclusive of both public and private partners working cooperatively to share immunization data in a timely manner.
L.2004,c.138,s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-133 - Definitions relative to Statewide automated and electronic immunization registry.

26:4-133 Definitions relative to Statewide automated and electronic immunization registry.
3. As used in this act:
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health.
"Department" means the Department of Health.
"Health care provider" means a health care facility licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136 (C.26:2H-1 et seq.) or a health care professional whose practice is regulated pursuant to Title 45 of the Revised Statutes.
"Registry" means the New Jersey Immunization Information System established pursuant to this act.
L.2004, c.138, s.3; amended 2012, c.17, s.339.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-135 - Immunity from liability.

26:4-135 Immunity from liability.
5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, a person or entity, who is authorized by the commissioner to report, receive or disclose information relating to the registry pursuant to this act, shall be immune from liability for:
a. reporting information to, receiving information from, or disclosing information received from, the registry in accordance with the provisions of this act or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto; and
b. any error or inaccuracy in the information that is reported to, received from, or disclosed after receipt from, the registry in accordance with the provisions of this act or any regulation adopted pursuant thereto, and any consequence of that error or inaccuracy.
L.2004,c.138,s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-136 - Construction of act relative to obligations, rights of persons.

26:4-136 Construction of act relative to obligations, rights of persons.
6. The provisions of this act shall not be construed to affect the obligation of any person, or the person's parent or legal guardian if the person is a minor, to comply with any immunization requirement, or the right of that person, parent or legal guardian to request an exemption from the immunization requirement on the grounds that an immunization is medically contraindicated or that the requirement conflicts with the religious tenets or practices of the person, parent or legal guardian, as otherwise established by statute or by regulation of the department.
L.2004,c.138,s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-137 - Confidentiality of registry information.

26:4-137 Confidentiality of registry information.
7. a. Information contained in the registry is confidential and shall be disclosed only for the purposes authorized by this act.
b. A person who is aggrieved as a result of a violation of this act may commence a civil action against the person or entity committing the violation to obtain appropriate relief, including actual damages, equitable relief and reasonable attorney's fees and court costs. Punitive damages may be awarded when the violation evidences wantonly reckless or intentionally malicious conduct by the person or entity who committed the violation.
c. A person who discloses information in violation of this act is guilty of a disorderly persons offense. Each disclosure made in violation of this act is a separate and actionable offense.
L.2004,c.138,s.7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 26 - Health and Vital Statistics › Section 26:4-138 - Certain transmissions of information permitted.

26:4-138 Certain transmissions of information permitted.
8. The provisions of this act shall not prohibit the transmission or exchange of immunization information from other government database systems, immunization registries of other states or similar regional registries officially recognized by those states, health maintenance organizations or health benefits plans, health insurance companies, practice management or billing vendors, or other similar databases containing immunization histories, if the transmission is in accordance with the provisions of this act and other relevant State and federal laws and regulations.
L.2004,c.138,s.8.