Title 26, HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:1A-78. Fees, fines, penalties and other moneys; disposition Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: (1) All license, certificate, permit, registration and renewal fees prescribed by law for any of the professions or occupations with which any of the bo…

26:1A-79. Budget request for appropriations On or before the fifteenth day of September in each year, each of the boards and agencies within the Bureau of Examination and Licensing established hereunder shall prepare and submit to the State Commissioner of Health a budget request…

26:1A-8. Regulations to state date; copies; certified copies of Sanitary Code; evidence Every sanitary regulation or amendment thereto or repealer thereof adopted in accordance with the provisions of section seven of this act shall state the date on which it takes effect, and sha…

26:1A-80. Surplus; disposition Any surplus remaining in any year to the credit of any of the boards or agencies within the Bureau of Examination and Licensing established hereunder, after annual appropriations made as provided herein, shall be paid into and become part of the gen…

26:1A-81. Limitations on appropriations Limitations on appropriations to any of the boards or agencies enumerated in section four hereof, contained in any existing law, shall, notwithstanding the provisions of this act, continue in full force and effect. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1753, …

26:1A-82. Transfer of employees of Crippled Children's Commission Such employees of the State Crippled Children's Commission, as the State Commissioner of Health may, after consultation with such commission, determine are needed for the proper performance of the work of such comm…

26:1A-83. Crippled Children's Commission appropriations transferred All appropriations available and to become available to the State Crippled Children's Commission are hereby transferred to the State Department of Health, and shall be available for the objects and purposes for w…

26:1A-84. Barber and beauty culture appropriations transferred All appropriations available and to become available to the State Board of Barber Examiners, and all appropriations available and to become available to the department of beauty culture control and to the board of bea…

26:1A-85. Civil Service, pension and retirement rights not affected Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any person of any right or protection provided him by Title 11 of the Revised Statutes, Civil Service, or under any pension law or retirement system. L.1948, c. 4…

26:1A-86. Orders, rules and regulations not affected This act shall not affect the orders, rules and regulations heretofore made or promulgated by any of the respective boards or agencies enumerated in section four of this act but such orders, rules and regulations shall continue…

26:1A-87. Pending actions or proceedings This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against any of the respective boards or agencies enumerated in section four of this act and pending on the effective date hereof, and such actions or procee…

26:1A-88. Professional or occupational licenses not affected Nothing in this act shall affect the validity of any license, certificate of registration, or other authorization, heretofore issued to any person under any prior law, to practice any profession or to engage in any occu…

26:1A-89. Repeal All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act are, to the extent of such inconsistency, hereby repealed. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 25.

26:1A-9. Force and effect of Code; enforcement; local regulations The provisions of the State Sanitary Code shall have the force and effect of law. Such code shall be observed throughout the State and shall be enforced by each local board of health, the local police authorities a…

26:1A-9.1. Exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization; interference with religious rights; suspension Provisions in the State Sanitary Code in implementation of this act shall provide for exemption for pupils from mandatory immunization if the parent or guardian of the pupi…

26:1A-90. Short title This act shall be known as, and may be cited as, the "State Department of Health Act of 1948." L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 26.

26:1A-91. Effective date This act shall take effect on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, except that any appointment, and any confirmation of any appointment, permitted by this act may be made prior to such date. L.1948, c. 444, p. 1756, s. 27.

26:1A-92. Prevention of Chronic Illness Act This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Prevention of Chronic Illness Act." L.1952, c. 102, p. 438, s. 1.

26:1A-93. Declaration of public policy The growing problem of prevention, detection and care of chronic illness, which is of such character as not to be exclusively medical, educational or welfare, has now reached such proportions in this State as to require the participation of …

26:1A-94. Division of Chronic Illness Control established in Department of Health There is hereby established within the Department of Health a Division of Chronic Illness Control for the prevention, early detection and control of chronic illness and rehabilitation of the chronic…

26:1A-95. Supervision; director The Division of Chronic Illness Control shall be under the immediate supervision of a director, who shall be a physician qualified in public health, and who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the State Commissioner of Health. L.1952…

26:1A-96. Duties of division The division shall administer and provide for the carrying out of the programs required to perform the general functions provided by this act to be performed by the State and for the carrying out of the general policies formulated by the Advisory Coun…

26:1A-97. State Department of Health; duties The State Department of Health shall within funds appropriated and available therefor be charged with the responsibility of carrying out the obligations herein assumed by the State as its share of the task of providing for prevention, …