Title 26, Title 26: HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS

26:3-13. Compensation of board members For attendance on meetings of the board, members of a township board, which is subject to the provisions of this subdivision of this article, shall each receive the sum of two dollars ($2.00) for each meeting, to be paid in the same manner a…

26:3-14. Vacancy in office of physician member If a township committee in a township having a population of not more than twenty thousand inhabitants, which is subject to the provisions of this subdivision of this article, shall fail to appoint a physician member within ten days …

26:3-15. Vacancy in office of assessor member In a township having a population of not more than twenty thousand inhabitants, which is subject to the provisions of this subdivision of this article, in case of the death, removal, or resignation of an assessor before the time of el…

26:3-16. Vacancy in township of over 20,000 If a vacancy shall occur in the board of any township having a population of more than twenty thousand inhabitants, which is subject to the provisions of this subdivision of this article, it shall be filled in the same manner in which t…

26:3-18.1. "Public health laboratory technician" defined As used in this act, "public health laboratory technician" applies to every officer appointed by a board of health to perform bacteriological, serological, chemical and related technical laboratory tests in a laboratory con…

26:3-19 Employees of local board 26:3-19. The local board may employ such personnel as it may deem necessary, to carry into effect the powers vested in it. It shall fix the duties and compensation of every appointee and, as to local boards which shall not be operating under the p…

26:3-19.1 Civil service status of employees of local board of health. 1. All health officers, registered environmental health specialists and other persons selected to fill available positions in a local board of health in any municipality, which has adopted, or shall hereafter a…

26:3-19.2. Incumbent plumbing inspectors; placing in classified service without examination Any person holding the position or employment of plumbing inspector under any local board of health of any municipality, which has adopted the provisions of subtitle three of Title 11 (Civ…

26:3-2. Rules and regulations A local board may adopt rules, regulations or ordinances for its government and that of its officers and employees not inconsistent with law or the state sanitary code.

26:3-20 License necessary for appointment. 26:3-20. No local board shall appoint any person to a position for which a license is required under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41) nor employ a person to do work ordinarily performed by a person required to hold a license un…

26:3-20.1. Violations by local board in appointments; injunction Whenever any local board shall violate any of the provisions of section 26:3-20 of this Title, the department may institute an action in the Superior Court in the name of the State at the relation of the department …

26:3-21 Licensee eligible for appointment. 26:3-21. Any holder of a license required under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41) shall be eligible to appointment to the position for which the license is required by any local board. Amended 1947, c.181, s.3; 1950, c.119, s.7;…

26:3-22 Joint health officer, registered environmental health specialists. 26:3-22. Local boards of health of two or more adjacent municipalities may join in employing a health officer and one or more registered environmental health specialists and other personnel. In such case, …

26:3-23 Registered environmental health specialist for township. 26:3-23. If in any township sufficient environmental inspection is not secured, the State department may, on notice to the local board, require the appointment by the local board of a registered environmental health…

26:3-24 Registered environmental health specialist in municipality of over 2,000. 26:3-24. In every municipality containing a population of 2,000 inhabitants or more, there shall be at least one registered environmental health specialist appointed by the local board. Amended 1997…

26:3-25.1 Receipt of maximum salary. 5. Every person holding a license issued under section 41 of P.L.1947, c.177 (C.26:1A-41), who is employed in a position for which this license is required by any board of health, municipality or group of municipalities shall receive the maxim…

26:3-26. Removal of licensed health officers; necessity of public hearing No health officer, inspector or employee holding a license issued in the name of the State Department of Health, after five years' consecutive service in the employ of a local board or regional health commi…

26:3-27 Removal of health officer. 26:3-27. The local board or regional health commission, not operating under the provisions of Title 11A, Civil Service, of the New Jersey Statutes, employing a health officer or any other person whom it is sought to remove, shall formulate or re…

26:3-29. Representative at health officers' association A local board employing a health officer shall defray his necessary expenses in attending the regular meetings of the health officers' association of New Jersey.

26:3-3 Composition of local board. 26:3-3. a. The local board in every municipality, other than a township, which is subject to the provisions of subdivision C of this article, or a board established by a municipality that invokes the provisions of subsection b. of this section, …

26:3-30. Representative at health convention A local board in cities of the second class may appoint and send its health officer to any medical convention meeting for the purpose of discussing the improvement of the health and sanitary condition of municipalities, and pay his nec…

26:3-31 Public health regulations. 26:3-31. The local board of health shall have power to pass, alter or amend ordinances and make rules and regulations in regard to the public health within its jurisdiction, for the following purposes: a. To protect the public water supply and p…

26:3-31.1. Plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings and connection with sewers, cesspools, etc.; ordinances regulating Local boards of health may enact, amend or supplement ordinances to establish, amend or supplement rules and regulations affecting the installation, maint…

26:3-31.10. Application of law The provisions of this act shall not apply to owner-occupied residential rental properties containing five units or less. L.1980, c. 170, s. 7, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.

26:3-31.2. Publication of rules and regulations not required; filing printed copies It shall not be necessary to publish any such rules and regulations, so to be adopted, as part of said ordinance, notwithstanding that a printed copy thereof is annexed thereto, either before or a…

26:3-31.3. Proof of ordinance For the purpose of proof of any such ordinance or the receipt thereof in evidence in all courts and places, such copy of said code, so marked and so annexed to such ordinance, shall be construed to be part of said ordinance as fully as though it had …

26:3-31.4. Short title This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Emergency Fuel Oil Delivery Act." L.1980, c. 170, s. 1, eff. Dec. 18, 1980.

26:3-31.5. Local health officer to act as agent of landlord in engaging fuel oil dealer; conditions The governing body of any municipality may provide, by ordinance, that the local health officer or other officer designated in the ordinance shall, whenever necessary to protect th…

26:3-31.6. Billing to landlord or municipality for delivery of fuel oil and refiring of burner Any fuel oil dealer who delivers fuel oil or refires the burner in accordance with section 2 of this act may bill the landlord directly, or the municipality in which the rental property…

26:3-31.7. Liability of landlord or agent due to negligence; penalty enforcement 4. Any landlord or his agent whose negligence or failure to act results in municipal action pursuant to section 2 of this act shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $300.00 for each affe…

26:3-31.8. Penalty enforcement proceeding; reimbursements; injunction; collection of reimbursements In any penalty enforcement proceeding brought pursuant to this act the court shall also order the landlord or his agent to reimburse the municipality for the actual costs incurred …

26:3-31.9. Immunity of municipality or its employees in enforcing act; exception No municipality or its employees shall be liable for any damages to any person or property in enforcing this act except for the gross negligence or malfeasance of any municipal official, officer or e…

26:3-32. Granting of licenses and permits in cities over 80,000 Local boards of health in cities having a population of more than 80,000 inhabitants may grant and regulate licenses and permits incident to health matters and charge a reasonable fee for any such license or permit, …

26:3-33. Sanitation, plumbing, ventilation and drainage of buildings Local boards of health may within their respective jurisdictions: a. Secure the sanitary condition of every building, public or private. b. Compel, prescribe, regulate and control the plumbing, ventilation and d…

26:3-34. Delegation of powers to members or officers of board The local board of health in any municipality, except townships other than densely populated townships having a public water supply, may delegate by resolution any of its powers to any member of the board or to any off…

26:3-35. Annual report to director The local board of health, on or before the fifteenth day of February in each year, in addition to other reports required, shall prepare and file with the director an annual report for the preceding calendar year. Such report shall state the con…

26:3-36. Fee for preparing report The person performing the clerical work necessary in the preparation of the annual report required by section 26:3-35 of this title, upon receiving a certificate from the director of health that such annual report has been duly prepared and recei…

26:3-37. Appropriation for dispensaries The body having charge of the finances of any city of the first class may by resolution, approved by the mayor, appropriate and set aside annually to the credit of the board having charge of the public health in the city a sum of money, not…

26:3-38. Establishment and control; annual expenses The local board having charge of the public health in any city of the first class, provided the body having charge of the finances in such city shall appropriate the necessary moneys: a. Shall establish, in suitable locations in…

26:3-39. Annual reports The local board having charge of such dispensary shall annually make report of its transactions and accounts, and of the state and condition of the dispensary, to the body having charge of the finances of the city.

26:3-4. Qualification of members in cities of first class In a city of the first class, only citizens of the city shall be eligible to appointment on the local board; not more than one-half of the members shall belong to the same political party; and at least one-half of the memb…

26:3-40. Visiting nurses; appointment; salaries The local board having charge of the public health in any city of the first class may appoint and designate nurses, who shall be regularly graduated from a recognized training school of nurses, to act as nurses in such dispensary an…

26:3-41. Estimate of township appropriation necessary for health purposes; appropriation The local board of health of each township shall each year, before the budget of municipal taxes to be levied for the year shall be determined, present to the governing body of the municipali…

26:3-42. Payment of township health bills Every expenditure of money shall be presented by an itemized bill, approved by the president and secretary of the local board, to the usual disbursing officer of the township who shall pay the same. Amended by L.1943, c. 115, p. 347, s. 2…

26:3-43. Estimate of appropriation by municipality necessary for health purposes; appropriation The local board of health of every municipality other than a township, shall each year, before the budget of municipal taxes to be levied for the year shall be determined, present to t…

26:3-44. Additional appropriations in case of epidemics; borrowing money Whenever an epidemic of any contagious or infectious disease exists or is threatened, or any special need arises for the protection of the public health, and in the judgment of the local board of health of a…