New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Subchapter 1 - REPORTABLE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES › Section 8:57-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this chapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise or
				  another subchapter defines one of the following words or terms differently for the
				  purposes of that subchapter.
"Administrator" shall mean the person having control or
				  supervision over a health care facility, correctional facility, school, youth camp,
				  child care center, preschool, or institution of higher education.
"Animal facility" shall have the meaning established for
				  "facility" at 8:23A-1.1.
"Bioterrorism" shall have the meaning established at
				  26:13-2.
"Certified animal control officer" shall have the meaning
				  established at 8:23A-2.1.
"Child care center" shall have the meaning established at
				  10:122-1.2.
"Clinical laboratory" shall have the meaning established at
				  45:9-42.2 7.
"Clinical laboratory director" shall have the meaning established
				  at 45:9-42.2 7.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department
				  of Health and Senior Services, or his or her designee.
"Communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific
				  infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that
				  agent or its products from an infected person, animal, or inanimate reservoir to a
				  susceptible host, either directly or indirectly through an intermediate plant or
				  animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
				  Services.
"Domestic companion animal" shall mean any domestic dog, cat,
				  ferret, bird, reptile, rodent, rabbit not raised for food or fiber, or other animal
				  kept primarily as a household pet for personal appreciation and
				  companionship.
1. Domestic companion animal includes feral and free-roaming dogs
				  and cats.
2. Domestic companion animal does not include:
i. Livestock and aquaculture as defined at
				  2:2-1.1 and regulated by the New Jersey
				  Department of Agriculture; and
ii. Animals regulated under the Animal Welfare Act,
				  7 U.S.C. §§
										2131 et seq., and the regulations promulgated
				  thereunder at
				  9 CFR
				  §§
										1.1 through
				  4.11 as research animals.
1. The format of the electronic file must be one that is specified
				  in the Electronic Laboratory Reporting Technical Manual, available at subchapter
				  Appendix A.
2. Further information on transmission protocols, file formats,
				  laboratory coding, test plans to initiate electronic laboratory reporting with the
				  Department and contact information can be found in the Electronic Laboratory
				  Reporting Technical Manual, available at subchapter Appendix A.
1. Information regarding CDRSS is available in the CDRSS
				  Information Guide, which is written and published by the Communicable Disease
				  Service, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and is available by
				  written request to the Communicable Disease Service, New Jersey Department of Health
				  and Senior Services, PO Box 369, Trenton, NJ 08625-0369 or online through the
				  Department's web page at
http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/index.html
.
1. This person is responsible for evaluating health problems,
				  planning appropriate activities to address these health problems, developing
				  necessary budget procedures to finance these activities, and directing staff to
				  carry out these activities efficiently and economically.
1. This term includes infections acquired in the health care
				  facility but appearing after discharge, and also such infections among the staff of
				  the facility.
1. "Endemic level" means the usual prevalence of a given disease
				  within a geographic area.
2. "Suspected outbreak" means an outbreak, which appears to meet
				  the definition of an outbreak, but has not yet been confirmed.
"Overlap agent or toxin" shall have the meaning established at
				  26:13-2.
"Pediatric" means a person who has not yet attained the age of 18
				  years.
"Pet shop" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C.
				  8:23A-1.1.
"Pound" shall have the meaning established at N.J.A.C.
				  8:23A-1.1.
"Public health emergency" shall have the meaning established at
				  26:13-2.
"Quarantine" shall have the meaning established at
				  26:13-2.
"School" means any building, structure, or part thereof used for
				  purposes of the education of children between grades kindergarten through 12 whether
				  publicly or privately owned.
"Sexually transmitted disease" means syphilis, gonorrhea,
				  chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, granuloma inguinale and chlamydial genital
				  infections.
"Shelter" shall have the meaning established at
				  8:23A-1.1.
"Vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA)" and
				  "Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA)" mean any Staphylococcus aureus
				  isolate with intermediate susceptibility or resistance to vancomycin, detected and
				  defined according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute's Performance
				  Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Seventeenth Informational
				  Supplement (M100-S17).
"Veterinarian" shall mean a person licensed by the State Board of
				  Veterinary Medical Examiners to engage in the practice of veterinary medicine,
				  surgery and dentistry, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:44.
"Zoonotic disease" shall mean a communicable disease transmissible
				  from vertebrate animals to humans, and may include transmission by intermediate
				  vectors, such as mosquitoes or ticks.
The
				  adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective
				  1/3/2024 is not yet
				  available