New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 63 - HARM REDUCTION CENTERS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:63-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The following words and terms, as used in this
				chapter, shall have the meanings that N.J.S.A. 26:5C-26.1 establishes:
l "Authorized harm reduction services";
"Eligible entity"; and
"Harm reduction supplies."
(b) The following words and terms, as used in this
				chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				otherwise:
"Act" means N.J.S.A. 26:5C-25 through 31.
"Administrator" means a person having the authority and
				  responsibility for the operation of the harm reduction center and serves as the
				  contact for communication with the Department.
"AIDS service organization" means a non-governmental organization
				  that provides services related to the prevention and treatment of HIV or acquired
				  immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
"Bloodborne pathogen" means "bloodborne pathogens," as
				  29 CFR
				  1910.1030 defines that term.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department
				  of Health.
"Consumer" means a person who receives authorized harm reduction
				  services from a harm reduction center.
"Delivery" means the provision of authorized harm reduction
				  services and/or supplies by a staff member or volunteer of a harm reduction center
				  to consumers at a location other than a fixed location or mobile access component of
				  a harm reduction center, including by means of postal mail or another means of
				  delivery.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health.
"Division" means the Division of HIV, STD, and TB Services, of the
				  Department, for which the contact information is Division of HIV, STD, and TB
				  Services, Department of Health, PO Box 363, Trenton, NJ 08625-0363, telephone (609)
				  984-5874, electronic mail HRC@doh.nj.gov.
"Fixed location" means a building, structure, or other premises
				  with a physical address at which a registrant regularly provides authorized harm
				  reduction services.
"Harm reduction center" means an entity that the Department
				  registers to provide authorized harm reduction services in accordance with the Act
				  and this chapter.
"HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus, the etiologic virus of
				  AIDS.
"Mobile access component" means a movable unit that provides
				  authorized harm reduction services and/or supplies at one or more temporary
				  locations by using a vehicle, such as a car, truck, van, trailer, or another movable
				  unit.
"Needlestick injury" means a penetrating wound from a needle that
				  may result in exposure to blood.
"Registration" means the Department's approval of an application
				  for registration as a harm reduction center pursuant to the Act at
				  N.J.S.A.
				  26:5C-27 and this chapter.
"Regulated medical waste" means "regulated medical waste" or
				  "medical waste" as
				  N.J.S.A.
				  13:1E-48.3 and
				  N.J.A.C.
				  7:26-3A, particularly
				  N.J.A.C.
				  7:26-3A.5 and 3A.6, define and describe that
				  term.
"Secondary distribution" means the provision of harm reduction
				  supplies by a consumer who obtained the supplies from a harm reduction center, and
				  who distributes the supplies to other persons at a location other than the harm
				  reduction center, provided the consumer is authorized by the harm reduction center
				  of which they are a member to engage in such secondary distribution, and the
				  consumer receives no compensation from any person for the act of distribution to
				  others or for the distributed supplies.
"Sharps waste" means used needles, syringes, and lancets.
"Staff" means a person that works for a harm reduction center and
				  receives remuneration or other tangible benefits from the harm reduction center for
				  the performance of authorized harm reduction services on behalf of the harm
				  reduction center.
"Viral hepatitis" means any of the forms of hepatitis caused by a
				  virus.
"Volunteer" means a person that works for a harm reduction center
				  who does not receive remuneration from the harm reduction center for the performance
				  of authorized harm reduction services on behalf of the harm reduction
				  center.